5 Types of Roof Vents & Energy Savings Info

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As mentioned in our earlier post, Tips for ventilating Your Roof Space, an optimized ventilation system is needed to balance the temperature and moisture levels in your home’s attic space.

3 Reasons Why You Need A Proper Ventilation System

1. your home will be more comfortable,
2. you’ll decrease utility spending, and
3. your roof will last longer, saving you money on roof repair or worse yet, complete replacement.

Who doesn’t like the sound of that?

But how much will a new roof vent cost?

Actually, you’ll find that most roof vents are reasonably priced—especially when you consider the energy-saving return on investment. When you’re ready to address home ventilation, here’s some helpful list of types of vents to help you make a decision.

• Turbine/static/wind-driven roof vents (provide ventilation by spinning naturally with the wind)
• Louver/static roof vents (deflect rain and insects while promoting air flow)
• Soffit roof vents (positioned under eaves)
• Gable roof vents (louvered vents placed on roof peaks)
• Powered roof vent units (thermostat typically included)

Before you spend a bundle on attic ventilation, make sure you’ve consulted with a roofing expert who can help. We will be happy to discuss needed repairs so call us today to schedule a roofing consultation. We will help you figure out how much you’ll save by installing and maintaining an adequate vent system in your house.

With over 20 years of experience, LGC Roofing is your 2010 roofing source for superior customer service, competitive pricing and quality workmanship.

3 Tips On How To Select Roof Shingles

There are many shingle brands on the market today so how will you know which is the right brand for you?
Well, you need to do some research to figure out which brand will be most suitable and reliable, because you don’t want to run into problems down the road.

Here are 3 things you have to look at when researching a brand:

How long they have been in roofing business

• You don’t want to buy roofing product from a newly established manufacturer because you don’t know if they will be around in 10 years to honor product warranties.
• You don’t know if product they offer is develop well enough.

What warranty they offer

You need to check warranties different shingle manufactured offers because there may be a big difference between what they offer in that regard. Right now standard (limited) manufacturer warranty for architectural shingles is anywhere from 15 to 30 years. To understand exactly what you getting you need to read the fine print. Of course warranty from a company which is in business for 50 years is worth much more than one from somebody who just started.

How often do they change their product

It is important to do research how often roofing material manufacturer changes their product line. You want to make sure shingle color you chose today will be available 10 years from now (when there comes time for repair).

Those are the 3 things that you need to look at closely when selecting shingle material for your roof. As is usually the case in any industry, it is always a good idea to choose one of the major players like GAF, CertainTeed or Owens Corning.

Lukasz Sobczuk. LGC Roofing