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Hello
I am new here. I am thinking about adding a ridge vent to my house. The problem is… My son just had a new roof put on his house in Houston. They took off his turbine vents and installed ridge vents in the process. There were plenty of vents in the eaves. No matter what he did he was never able to control the temperature in his house until he installed turbine vents again. This leads me to believe that ridge vents aren’t all that good reguardless of what the experts. Any input out there guys????
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Greetings George,
If there's a collation between adding roof turbines and controlling the temperature inside your son's home I would venture to guess your son has a sick house that leaks like sieve.
Gabe
*George. Years and years of testing turbine vents at Texas A&M and elswhere, shows how poorly they work. They move only a small amout air in the immediate vicinity of the vent. By the bye. Not all combinations of ridge/soffit vents work. GeneL.
*"Sick House Syndrome" is related to houses that are too tight, not ones that leak like a sieve.http://www.chestnet.org/education/pccu/best/lesson26-11.html
*DF Don't ya think it's about time you stopped living up to your name and stopped being a DF.Guess it's too much to ask for.NO ONE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT IT BEING A "SICK HOUSE SYNDROME" YOU IDIOT.What was said was that there shouldn't be any relationship between the turbines and temp. control. There must be something else to the house.Go back under your rock,Gabe
*i I would venture to guess your son has a sick houseAnd Happy New Year to you, too.
*Sick house, sick puppy, sick car just mean that something is wrong you DF. Sick house syndrome is a specific problem. Don't know why I bother explaining to anyone who is construction challenged.Gabe
*I should have realized when i saw "collation" instead of "correlation" in your original post that you are as semantically challenged as ever. Your projectile vomiting is coming along nicely, though....
*Just a second ...80% of all men have some form or dyslexia, which, by the way, usually doesn't show up 'til they start doin' math or typin' on a key board. And where the heck is the splel check on this site anyway?
*DF it doesn't have to qualify as a projectile, you're always underfoot so it can easily just drop on you. Go back to sniffing out septic tank vents.Gabe
*Back to the subject George. Ridge vents work just fine when coupled to soffit vents. They do a fine job of keeping the roof cavity ventilated.As far as the house is concerned temperature control is determined by proper design, construction and temperature conditioning. This has very little to do with the roof ventilation unless the roof cavity is part of the conditioned space; in which case there shouldn't be any vents.In short your son's experience re roof ventilation has nothing to do with your house unless your's suffers from the same problem as his. Then it is better to solve the problem than blame the vents.
*George. See if your local library has a copy of Complete Building Construction, 4th Edition, publoshed by Macmillan. Read chapter 23 Attic Ventilation, especially the part on Soffit Vents.GeneL.
*Well, I'm holding my nose and jumping in. Feet first, of course. Reading this thread made me realize that I have a problem with my roof venting.New house under construction. Gambrel roof "Barn roof" that has a triangular volume between the lower roof and walls. My carpenter very carefully put a continuous soffit vent in. Then he put "Bird blocks" in to cover the space between the rafters down at floor level. He just closed the vent inlets!!!! Question - how do you vent this kind of roof without letting cold air into the volume? I've had several suggestions, none of which I've liked. Is there a simple solution that doesn't use that nice big hopefully dead air mass? Has a ridge vent and provisions for a gable end fan if all goes wrong.Don Reinhard
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Hello
I am new here. I am thinking about adding a ridge vent to my house. The problem is... My son just had a new roof put on his house in Houston. They took off his turbine vents and installed ridge vents in the process. There were plenty of vents in the eaves. No matter what he did he was never able to control the temperature in his house until he installed turbine vents again. This leads me to believe that ridge vents aren't all that good reguardless of what the experts. Any input out there guys????