Properly insulating and sealing your attic is the first step toward a more cost-efficient home. Supplementing your insulation with a properly installed solar powered attic fan can maximize your savings even further by enhancing attic ventilation and mitigating damage to your entire attic space and your roof.
During the warmest months of the year, the temperature in your attic can reach in excess of 150○ Fahrenheit. This excessive heat can transfer through your existing insulation and into your home, causing your air conditioner to unnecessarily recycle. In addition, a continually overheated roof is more susceptible to the kind of damage that shortens the life expectancy of roofing materials.
In the colder months, snow and freezing rain can collect on your roof, also causing damage to your roofing materials. More importantly, as the snow and ice melt, the moisture can permeate throughout your attic and dampen your insulation, causing the development mildew and dangerous mold. The result can not only hazardous to your home but hazardous to your health.
Either scenario…either set of problems…the outcome will be the same. You’ll end-up spending money to remediate problems that could have been easily avoided. A properly installed solar attic fan can keep your roof and attic cooler, even on the hottest days of the year. It will help alleviate damage to your roofing materials and reduce the heat in the attic. This in turn will help keep your air conditioner from recycling needlessly. In the winter, the attic fan will help reduce moisture problems caused by ice and snow and help alleviate the moisture problems that can form in your attic.
Best of all, a solar powered attic fan runs on a never-ending source of energy that is absolutely free. Preserve the life of your roof, the health of you attic and function of your air-conditioner with an American made, solidly constructed, well warrantied solar powered attic fan from yellowblue™.
