If you’re a handy homeowner who has experience working on roofing projects, you can buy the ridge vent material for $155 and install it yourself, saving 67 percent, a nice reward for your work.

If you’re a handy homeowner who has experience working on roofing projects, you can buy the ridge vent material for $125 and install it yourself, saving 69 percent, a nice reward for your work.

The main alternative to box vents is a ridge vent, which runs the length of your roof's peak. Ridge vents are generally more effective because they can eliminate all of the warmest air.

The best time to install a ridge vent is when installing a new roof, but it's possible to add one to an existing roof.

Q: We're about to have a new shingle roof installed, but our roofing contractor says out attic is not adequately vented. We currently have a ridge vent and a power exhaust fan on the roof, but our ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do ridge vents have a place on any roof in Michigan? Also, we've been told that adding gable vents would not be a good idea. The addition of pot vents would be a somewhat better choice.

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 vent, air has to go down about three inches.