What is attic ventilation?
Attic ventilation is simply circulating the air in the attic. Your attic must breathe, but unfortunately, many homes in San Antonio don’t have adequate ventilation. Ideally your attic should breathe by intaking cooler air from soffit vents and then pushing out hot air through ridge vents. Proper attic ventilation may also require ventilation fans to move otherwise stale air through the space. Ventilation should reduce stale air by allowing soffits to intake new, cooler air, and ridge vents to remove hot, stale air. As hot air rises, much of the humidity and moisture in the air can become trapped in the attic, and without proper ventilation, this air not only increases your home temperature, but can cause mold development.
The humidity causes condensation in your attic, which causes mold. During the summer, the drastic change in temperature from day to night causes condensation. Likewise, during the winter, warming the house causes the cold air in your attic to create condensation, further damaging the integrity of your attic.
Green Energy of SA will install both ridge vents and soffit vents to provide maximum ventilation in your home.