Our 30-year-old house has ridge vents only over the front entrance and garage. But the main roof peak, running the length of the house, doesn’t have ridge vents.

Best type of roof vents for Michigan homes? Published: Sep. 05, 2007, 12:41 a.m.

Ridge vents are raised sections along the peak of a roof, and there are two reasons I prefer them over other venting options. First, the ventilation area provided by ridge vents is much greater ...

I took an infrared image of my own roof three years ago, and the surface temperature was 155 F! Ridge vents do little or nothing to lower the temperature inside an attic.

When having a roof replaced, make sure the roofing contractor understands the problems associated with mixing types of vents and either removes or seals unwanted vents if a ridge vent is to be ...

The ridge vent is only half of the venting if that’s the vent system you’re going to use. A ridge vent needs a continuous air supply from the bottom of the roof edge on both sides of the roof ...

To vent the roof, holes are cut in the old roof above the soffit, which pulls air through the soffit vents underneath. Cool outside air then travels under the shingles to the vented ridge, pulling ...

Ridge vents do little or nothing to lower the temperature inside an attic. In fact, they would have to break the laws of physics to work. Hot air rises, it doesn’t go down. To exit a roof ridge ...