You want your home to be well-insulated to reduce the cost of heating and air conditioning. Equally important is the need for proper ventilation to ensure that moisture and heat can escape from your attic to avoid problems with mold and/or ice dams. Ridge vents (also called roof vent systems), …
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Gable Vents for Ventilation
If you had to draw a picture of a house, most likely you'd draw the roof with two sloping sides that meet at the top of the roof to form a triangle. The triangles at the front and back of the house (or on the sides of the house) are called the gable ends of the house. Older homes have gable vents on …
Why You Need Soffit Vents
Our homes need to breathe, and that includes your attic. Soffit vents are found below the eaves of your roof, to allow fresh air from outside to flow into your attic and replace the air there. The process of exchanging attic air is called ventilation. In addition to soffit vents, your house …
Attic Rafter Vents
When you have insulation in the attic, you have to be sure it doesn't block the flow of fresh air from the soffit vents below the eaves, up and out through the ridge vent (or gable vent in older houses). Attic rafter vents (also called insulation baffles, baffle vents or proper vent) are used to …
How Climate Changes Will Affect Home Construction
Our world is changing, our lives are changing. This series of articles will explore how climate change will affect home values, home construction and our lives. The challenge is huge due to the number of players involved. They must work together in order to improve American lives ... while meeting …
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Why Homeowner Insurance Costs are Rising
There are lots of websites comparing homeowner insurance costs but few explain why costs keep going up. There are so many major events happening around and to us, it's hard to understand how these might affect homeowner insurance. This article explains the insurance company costs that are driving …
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