Roof Vents That Keep Snow Out

Roofers often complain that roof vents battered by storms can fail allowing blowing snow and rain to penetrate the attic.

Roof vents that keep snow out.

Place a deflector over the opening of the vent to keep rain from blowing through the opening. Deflectors are available in many sizes configurations and colors to match your existing vent cover. The original cobra ridge vent is just a roll of the filter type material available in 25 and 50 rolls. Invented by a roofer to defeat the harsh canadian winters this csa approved static box vent has been independently tested to block 99 99 of snow and rain even in severe storm conditions.

So there s a type of vent that s called a filter vent. In cold climates the primary purpose of attic or roof ventilatin is to maintain a cold roof tempeature to control ice dams created by melting snow and to vent moisture that moves from the conditioned space to the attic. Melted snow in this case is caused by heat loss from the conditioned space. By replacing your existing vents with an embers out vent your home will have an added layer of protection from the elements.

When mounted high and near the peak of the sloped roof the round back static roof vents will exhaust hot air from the attic in the summer and moisture from the attic air in the winter while preventing rain and or snow from entering the roof. And it s a good quality ridge vent but it has the added addition of a filter material that is in the baffle part of it in the porous part of it so that that stops the snow from doing exactly what it s doing in your case which is blowing in. Fire protection vents and filters prevent fire embers wind driven rain dust debris and nesting animals and rodents from entering your home through the attic vent. The vents that we use are cobra snow country advanced made by gaf never had a problem with them.