Continuous Ventilation Products and Information

Manufacturers of Continuous Ventilation Products

The following list indicates companies that make and/or sell continuous ventilation products. Many of the ridge vent products are ones that hide beneath the cap shingles of your roof. In other words, you don't really see them from the ground. Quite a few of these perform well in all situations (heat, blowing rain, & blowing snow). Some of these manufacturers make a hidden soffit or eave vent (Mid-America Building Products Corp.) These might appeal to you if you either have no soffits or have soffits and do not prefer to look at the continuous metal strips. Mid-America makes perhaps the best designed hip ventilation product. It is the one I am using on my own home.

When I built my home, there was not a great hip-roof ventilation product. I happen to have a cathedral ceiling in my Sun Room and to complicate matters it is a hip roof. This means each roof-joist cavity needs to breathe, because the roof sheathing and the finished ceiling material make a closed system.

If you have a similar situation, you need a great hip-roof continuous ventilation strip. Mine is well hidden under the cap shingles that run up the hip..

In any event, check out all of these manufacturers and read their product literature. I am convinced that you will be impressed.

Good luck! Call me with questions.

• Air Vent
  ridge vents and soffit vents

• Alcoa Homes
  ridge vents and soffit vents
• Benjamin Obdyke
  ridge vents and soffit vents

• Builders Edge 

• Butler Ventamatic Corp.
  ridge vents and soffit vents
• Cobra Ventilation Products - GAF Materials Corp.
  ridge vents and soffit vents

• Cor-A-Vent
  ridge vents and soffit vents

• Mid-America Building Products

Ventilation Association

If you would like some really great information concerning attic ventilation and any other ventilation (bath, kitchen, whole house fans, etc.) consider contacting the following organization. They have a wealth of information that they will share with you.

• Home Ventilating Institute

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