Top Vent

Top Vent

The right ridge vent: protecting your roof

When building a new home or remodeling your roof, it is essential for your peace of mind to know that you will be using and installing the best products available to protect your investment. Contractors often depend on a Trimline ridge vent from www.trimline-products.com to get a quality job done.

A ridge vent works on the following principle. You must have adequate soffit ventilation coupled with ridge ventilation in order to produce a pathway for a continuous airflow along the entire underside of the roof deck. You can maintain this airflow in two ways. First, as hot air naturally rises and exits out the ridge vent, cool air is pulled in from below. Second, positive airflow across the ridge of the house creates a negative pressure, which pulls air out of the ridge vent and brings in cool air from the soffits below. Whether the weather is windy or calm, the entire attic is vented by a constant flow of cooler, dryer outside air.

A question often asked is whether while installing a Trimline ridge vent on a home that has soffit vents and gable vents, it is acceptable to keep the gable vents. The short answer is no, it is best not to combine your ventilation systems. Ridge vents should only be installed according to a balanced system, with at least 50% of ventilation at the soffits and 50% at the ridge. Never combine gable vents, pot vents or powered fans with a balanced ridge vent and soffit ventilation system. When you have a series of exhaust vents near each other, the strongest vents will simply convert the others to intake vents and you could short circuit your ventilation system.

Trimline Rigid Roll ridge vent products are designed to be applied with "One-Pass Installation". This means that the vent and the cap shingles are secured at the same time during installation.

The Trimline ridge vent products have been rigorously tested. Trimline Rigid Roll and Rigid Vent PLUS are industry certified, so you can be confident in their long-lasting performance. Trimline ridge vents have withstood the DADE County protocol of 8.8 inches of rain per hour with 100-MPH winds, passed the ICC snow simulation test at 35 MPH and 70 MPH with no infiltration, and the conditions of acceptance of the Dust Exposure Test with no reduction in airflow.

The Trimline ridge vent holds certifications from Miami-Dade, Building Officials and Code Administrators International, the International Conference of Building Officials, the International Code Council (ICC), the Texas Department of Insurance and Underwriters Laboratories Class A or C.

For a ridge vent of outstanding performance and durability, building products of excellence and a reference section for optimum building requirements, visit www.trimline-products.com. Trimline offers the right solution for all your building project needs, with ease of installation, certified performance and attractive appearance. All products are sustainable to the environment.

 

About the Author

For a ridge vent of outstanding performance and durability, building products of excellence and a reference section for optimum building requirements, visit www.trimline-products.com. Trimline offers the right solution for all your building project needs, with ease of installation, certified performance and attractive appearance. All products are sustainable to the environment.

Install and top vent wall heater in a garage?

I have a Williams Monteray 35,000BTU top vented wall heater that I want to install in my garage. The problem is where I want to install it, I would have to vent it thru the wall instead of the roof. Is there a problem with venting it thru the wall using a thimble (assuming that there are no issues with where the exhaust gases are venting to)?

You cannot just vent out the back without some vertical vent height, these furnaces depend on the venting action of the flue and most minimum vent heights are 5 feet.
Always go by the manufacturers installation instructions.
A vertical section of pipe creates it's own venting action and the furnace depends on this or flue gasses will spill out the draft hood inside the space.

Might be easier to mount on an inside wall exposed and vent up thru the roof.

Ventertainment - Vent Life