Cool Your Attic With A Solar Attic Fan

Posted under environment by Chloe Gib

During the warm months of the year, when the sun beats down on your house, your house can build up with excessive heat. This not only raises the costs of cooling your home, but can cause damage to the roof. A solar attic fan provides constant relief without adding to the cost of cooling your home and is environmentally safe.

When the attic gains excessive heat your roofing shingles can suffer and deteriorate. If there’s a significant change in temperatures between the day and night where you live, this can cause thermal shock for the shingles. This may cause your shingles to crack and curl prematurely. A roof meant to last twenty five years might only last eight to ten years and then needs to be replaced.

Effective ventilation can lower your energy costs by allowing the hot air to escape upwards out of your house. Hot air rises and collects, but if there’s no place to go, it will descend back down into your living quarters and make the whole place hotter. Your air conditioning equipment will have to work harder, use more energy, and cost you more money to cool your home.

Proper ventilation not only removes heat, but also removes unwanted moisture that can build up. Things like taking a shower, doing the laundry, or even boiling water, adds humidity throughout in your home. If the humidity is not removed, then dry rot, mildew, and mold can grow and prosper.

A solar attic fan is usually ready to install and, since they are powered by the energy’s sun, there is nothing to hook up once they are secured in place. Someone still has to get up on the roof and install them, and if this is not for you, then look for solar installers who understand the technology and can do the work.

The traditional way of opening softfit and ridge vents to allow for air movement only works if the air outside is moving. On days when there is little or no air movement, then there is not any air movement in the house and the heat will simply build up. Utilizing a solar fan to substitute for natural air movement solves this problem.

A solar attic fan is an energy efficient way to protect your roof from excessive heat and damage. They can help to make your house more comfortable to live in and lower your costs to cool your home.

One Planet Solar offers solar panels for sale. Their mission is simple: to offer the most cost effective solutions to customers’ energy needs, including solar attic fans, solar panels, wind generators and other systems. Their professional solar installers will perform quality work to help you save energy. (www.oneplanetsolar-in.com)