An attic fan is a simple and best way to keep your home cool. It is a ventilation fan which regulates the heat level of a building’s attic by exhausting hot air.
An attic is mostly used as a modern compact store house to put away all the unnecessary junk. But all that undisturbed junk becomes the nursery for various pests. They can chew electrical wirings, shred insulations and being carrier of germs, can spread diseases. The attic must be properly cleaned and treated with disinfectants to get rid of these germs and hazards.
It is a small fan that is operated by a thermostat. It can be gable mounted or roofmounted.
Whenever the temperature reaches beyond a certain point, the fan gets switched on. It can also help you to lower your electricity consumption since it will pull the warm air out, through the attic and prevent heat transfer from taking place. The exhaust fan dumps the hot air outside.
Attic fans are more popular in areas with a hot climate, especially during the summers. It enables you to reduce your electricity bills without compromising your comfort or the comfort of your loved ones.
Installing an attic fan has many benefits like; it lowers the electricity consumption since it pulls the warm air out of the dead space in the attic and prevents heat transfer from taking place. This might seem like a complicated concept but you need to consider that the sun will heat up your roof, most especially if it is of dark colour, the roof will heat up and that heat will then be transferred towards the air in your attic. Having all of the hot air lingering above the air-conditioned environment inside your home will cause the cooling system to work even harder in order to meet up with the temperature requirements.
Power attic ventilators can cause problems even without air conditioning. One potential problem would be, sucking moist and moldy air up from the crawl space into the house.
Another would be back-drafting a water heater and pulling in carbon monoxide in the house. These are real problems but they are easy to solve if are taken care of by expert technicians.
Choosing the right kind of fan and the right service provider is very essential. A wrongly installed fan would do more harm than good and on top of that, it would consume a lot more in maintenance and repairs and push up the bills indirectly.
Attic Leader is a professional insulation company in Oxnard that provides various types of insulation installation services, including attic fan installation. Installing an attic fan is a very complicated process but not for our expert technicians. Our technicians are armed with experience and knowledge, which makes them very appropriate for such works.
If you hire us, our technicians will first do some evaluation and conduct the necessary inspections on your attic so that we can choose the right fan for you. We will also check for problems in your home insulation which might affect the efficiency of the fan and then present the best option out of many available.
The right fan of the right size has to be chosen, so, it’s best to leave it to the professionals with years of experience to get it done rightly in one go. Installing the fan is also a dangerous task for it requires people to climb up the attic. If one is not experienced in this field, they could end up injuring themselves.
