Roof Turbine Vents Making Noise

But some roof air vents sit fairly flat to the roof with a mushroom style hood and unprotected sides.

Roof turbine vents making noise.

Be sure to lubricate the bearings. Lubricating a really noisy whirlybird roof vent lubricated the bushing with wurth hhs2000 spray grease. And on occasion a hard driving rain with whipping wind will cause roof. Over time these vents can become squeaky from moisture and age related natural degradation.

All things being equal wind driven turbine vents also known as a whirlybird roof vent do move more air than flat vents but only when the wind blows. Paul a allison says. The whirly bird or turbine vents are worse than useless. They make noise too.

March 5 2015 at 2 19 am. Designed to maintain steady ventilation to attics these devices are necessary to prevent mold and excessive heat buildup under the roof. Roof vents vs whirly birds. Turbine vents are those ubiquitous devices found on almost every residential rooftop.

We live in alberta canada where we get lots of snow and heavy win blown rains. It was one of our rooftop turbine vents. October 15 2019 at 4 01 pm we have had turbines vents on our roof for over 15 years now and never had any leaks from them. Working for years since no more noise.

Climb the ladder remove the access panel and enter the attic. Often a stiff wind will open vent dampers causing them to periodically clang shut. I think these vents work very well. It is a con to make people think the spinning action is like running a fan and mechanically drawing hot air out.

Place the stepladder under the attic access space. Find the noisy turbine and apply the lubricant to the moving parts of the turbine. Full length ridge vent in combination with soffit vents is best. One response to spinning turbine vent noise.

Flat roof vents have no moving parts to break or squeak but don t vent as much air as wind driven vents. These are located in the track where the pipe coming out of the roof meets the spinning part of the vent. From above i heard the howling fury of a burning helicopter being swallowed whole by a drunken banshee. You may have a ridge vent turbine vent powered air vent or free air vent.

Roof vents come in a variety of styles. If the noise drives you crazy new spring loaded backdraft dampers 9 to 30 depending on the size should solve the problem. Most air vent styles prevent direct intrusion of water.