Are You Properly Ventilating the Roof?

By Cass Jacoby.  

Ventilation is essential to a healthy roof. In a new Lunch & Learn, we dive into how to properly calculate ventilation needed for a balanced intake and exhaust! 

Are you ready to learn something new this lunch break? Good news, the latest Lunch & Learn is here! The educational series from RoofersCoffeeShop® designed to bring learning opportunities to the roofing industry, in quick digestible tidbits you can easily fit into your work day is back for Episode 10. So grab your lunch and get ready to feed your brain this lunch break! 

Do you know your ventilation numbers? Understanding ventilation can be tricky, but without proper ventilation your customers are going to have problem,s which translates to you having problems. Luckily, Samantha Gillenwater, CertainTeed product manager, residential roofing, is an expert in all thing's ventilation. 

Join Heidi J. Ellsworth and Samantha as they dive into these three learning objectives: 

1 - Why do you need ventilation? 

2 - The importance of balanced intake and exhaust ventilation. 

3 - How to calculate the amount of ventilation needed. 

“There are a few reasons that you need ventilation. The biggest being, it prevents cold weather condensation that can really affect the life of your roof. And that could happen in I think, three different ways. Two of the biggest ones being heat and moisture build up,“ says Samantha. “So heat in the summer, moisture in the winter. And then the third biggest reason is it can prevent from ice damming. So we all know that ice damming can damage your gutters, it can damage your eaves. The ventilation will really help prevent that.” 

Ventilation is a year-round consideration, and a huge part of maintaining the right equilibrium is educating homeowners on this essential function of their roof so that moisture doesn’t cause damage. Additionally, teaching them about ventilation helps homeowners reduce their energy consumption and better understand the maintenance that their attic needs is a part of their roof maintenance.  

Download the learning guide and kickstart a conversation on the importance of ventilation and how to calculate intake and exhaust accurately. 

Grab your lunch and watch the newest Lunch & Learn! Be sure to take a photo of your team enjoying this Lunch & Learn and submit your photo or email it to us and you could win a pizza lunch on us! 

Check out the Lunch & Learn today! 

About Cass  

Cass works as a reporter/writer for RoofersCoffeeShop, AskARoofer and MetalCoffeeShop. When she isn’t writing about roofs, she is putting her Masters degree to work writing about movies and dancing with her plants.