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.

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.

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 ...

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.

A ridge vent offers 10 to 20 square inches of free venting per foot of vent (depending on roof style), so that's a plus when a roof generally requires one square foot of free venting for every 150 ...

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.