We all want to feel as calm and comfortable as possible when we are home. It’s our castle, our inner sanctum. That level of comfort is not always possible. Little projects keep cropping up or long neglected issues rear their ugly head at the worst possible time. The best thing that you can do is to try and head these issues off. Solar attic fans can help you by preventing one of the most insidious of home invaders: mold.

Solar attic fans play an important role in the long term maintenance and and healthy environment of your home by eliminating the things that promote the growth of mold. Mold can only grow if you allow it. There are three important ingredients for mold growth: heat, moisture, and darkness. Solar fans remove two of the three. Every time you take a shower, do dishes, or wash the laundry, moisture is released into the air. This moisture eventually rises into your attic and settles in the insulation and on the framework of your roof. The same thing happens as your home warms up. Heat rises and gets trapped in the attic. It is already dark up there, so mold and mildew have everything that they need to grow.

Passive vents help, but do not provide the air flow needed to provide a cool and dry attic space. Electric attic fans are an improvement, but then you have the increase in your electric bill to deal with. These fans are further, somewhat limited because the thermostats that they are equipped with have a high temperature setting. Essentially, they do not run often enough to do a great job. Solar attic fans conquer both of these obstacles. Once installed they will not cost you a dime on your energy bill and installation is easy. Just put the new fan in the same hole that your old one was in. Your energy bill will not increase in the slightest. Solar fans also have a lower setting on their thermostats, because of that, they run more often and keep your attic cooler and drier year round. A cooler, drier attic leads to another energy savings. In the summer your air conditioning will not have to work as hard to cool your home. If your attic is cool, not as much of the chilled air will be leached into the attic; saving you money on those dreaded summer cooling bills.

Add lower energy bills and savings on installation to the impact that you will have on the future of our environment when you install solar attic fans. It has been estimated that if everyone could lower the settings on their thermostat by one degree, we could eliminate our dependence on foreign oil in just 10 years. That means greater freedom for future generations.

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