My home has a cathedral ceiling, 12/12 pitch, and what appears to be Shingle Vent II ridge vent. The house is perched on top of a mountain in Western NC and when the winter storms blow through we can easily get 30-40 mph winds. When the winds are just pushing rain, my ridge vent does fine (no leaks). When the winds are pushing snow, I get some water dripping from the peak of my ceiling. I’m assuming that what’s happening is that the snow is getting packed into the ridge vent and later melting from the inside out.
My first thought was to look for a better version of ridge vent. The X-5 from Cor-a-vent looked pretty interesting with it’s weather foil. But then, a person in the building supply business was out the other day and he noted that I only have 2 soffit vents, both on the same side of the ‘A’. The other side of the roof is tied into a wing and thus has no soffit vents at all. His suggestion was to just pull off the existing ridge vent, shingle over the top and be done with it. What should I do?? Thanks in advance.
Larry
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Greetings LKS,
This post, in response to your question, will bump the thread through the 'recent discussion' listing again.
Perhaps it will catch someones attention that can help you with advice.
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I'd get rid of the ridge vent also. It sounds like they are more of a problem for you than benefit. It also sounds like half of the roof is already unvented. Has that unvented half had any moisture problems?
It would be hard for me to say which rafter bays are really vented and which are not--a couple are vented on one side, and no vents are on the other side. After having spoken with several local folks in the building business I've decided to rip off the current ridge vent and try this Cor-a-vent X-5 product. Hopefully I'm just replacing one type of ridge vent with something more snow resistant. Sort of a "do no harm" solution. If that doesn't solve the problem, then I'll rip that off too and just shingle over and be done with it.Larry Smith
I live in canada and have replaced a lot of ridge vent made for rain and not snow we replaced it with a snow proof product called Cobra vent works well
and there is a system called maxim vents the best you can buy but they are large like a cupola