We have a 2 story 15 year old home, high on an extremely windy hill. We have two problems which we think might be related to our ridge vents.
First- We have a one story, 12 x 12 study that extends out from the main part of the house. It has about 16 feet of baseboard radiator. This room is extremely cold in the winter. When it is around or below 0* which happens every winter, and when there are high winds, which happens frequently, that office hovers around 50* even with the thermostat wide open! We cannot get it warm. We wonder if the severe winds we have here are just too much for our ridge vent system. The wind just whips through that shallow attic space above the study!
Secondly- We have a bathroom on the second floor, in the very center of the house, which has a pipe that freezes in cold windy weather. The center of the house! We are baffled! We cut a hole in the wall and stuffed the space around the offending pipe with insulation. We also run an electric heater aimed right at the hole. Even tho the bathroom itself is not cold, that pipe freezes a couple of time each winter. We wonder if somehow our extremely cold and windy attic space is causing the freeze up.
Has anyone heard of trouble with ridge vents in extremely windy and cold locations? Any ideas or solutions?
First- We have a one story, 12 x 12 study that extends out from the main part of the house. It has about 16 feet of baseboard radiator. This room is extremely cold in the winter. When it is around or below 0* which happens every winter, and when there are high winds, which happens frequently, that office hovers around 50* even with the thermostat wide open! We cannot get it warm. We wonder if the severe winds we have here are just too much for our ridge vent system. The wind just whips through that shallow attic space above the study!
Secondly- We have a bathroom on the second floor, in the very center of the house, which has a pipe that freezes in cold windy weather. The center of the house! We are baffled! We cut a hole in the wall and stuffed the space around the offending pipe with insulation. We also run an electric heater aimed right at the hole. Even tho the bathroom itself is not cold, that pipe freezes a couple of time each winter. We wonder if somehow our extremely cold and windy attic space is causing the freeze up.
Has anyone heard of trouble with ridge vents in extremely windy and cold locations? Any ideas or solutions?