Warm air that escapes rooms below gets trapped in the attic.
Attic eave fan.
Attic fan ventilation attic fans are intended to cool hot attics by drawing in cooler outside air from attic vents soffit and gable and pushing hot air to the outside.
Attic ventilation fans whether hard wired or powered by their own solar panels seem like a low cost and effective way to help keep your house cool.
However if your attic has blocked soffit vents and is not well sealed from the rest of the house attic fans will suck cool conditioned air up out of the house and into the attic.
Temp 92 f at 5pm.
Good insulation reduces fan effectiveness.
After attic fan installation ac still off during day.
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A hot ceiling tells you that the attic is acting like a solar oven raising your cooling bills and cooking the shingles.
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Temp 84f at 5pm.
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Snow melts and the water refreezes on the cold eaves creating ice dams.
Attic ventilation works on the principle that heated air naturally rises primarily utilizing two types of vents.
However the utility of attic ventilation fans is actually quite a controversial topic.
It can quickly remove a larger volume of hot and or humid air from your attic when compared to static ventilation.
Most fans cannot keep up.
During the day any cooler air brought in by the fan will be heated up immediately by the surrounding structure.
When passive methods aren t sufficient an electric fan installed at a soffit vent draws additional outside air into the attic to augment the chimney effect.
During workdays would leave air conditioner off when leaving in the morning.
Intake vents located at the lowest part of the roof under the eaves allow cool.
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The attic fan kept my house cooler by 8f compared to pre fan installation days.
This was observed on numerous days following the installation.
The downside of attic ventilation fans.