Woo! Man, it's a hot one today, guys. Oh, man. You know what? What's even hotter
sometimes is when you go inside your house and you get so hot inside your house on a
hot day like today and you think your AC is broken. But when we find out in future
little videos right down here, when we talk about it a little further, you
realize that it might not be your AC unit at all. But what do we think when we go in
the back room, maybe our office, and it's 103 degrees outside here in Central Texas,
and we sit and work in our office and we're sitting there sweating and we think
we need to crank the AC down to 66 degrees just so we can get it to be 75 degrees in
the house. Is that you? Have you ever thought about that before? And I bet you,
how many times did you think your AC unit was completely broken? Well, let me tell
you something. We're going to find out the real reason once we go inside, and I've
got a couple things to show you. So come on and follow me.
Oh, all right. You're back. Hey, thanks. So before I get started, my name is Luke
Secora, founder of Ark Roofer out here in Georgetown, Texas. And let's continue the
conversation. So it's hot. You're inside. Maybe you're trying to work at your office
and you're very agitated.
You're short-tempered. You're upset. You're grouchy.
Maybe somebody's trying to help you out or be nice to you, and you're just not very
nice back to them, are you? And why is that? Because you're hot, you're
uncomfortable, and you just want to get your work done, but you're not very
productive. And you think here, it's your AC unit. And it might be. And it might be.
But why do you think it could be your AC not being able to blow cold enough air to
cool your house down, right? Did you know that many times the average attic
temperature is between 150 to 165 degrees on a 100-degree summer hot day here in
Central Texas? So if your attic is that hot, how hard does your AC unit have to
work? And how long do you think your AC unit's lifespan is really going to be if
it's always having to work really, really hard, right? So yeah, sure, it could be
your AC unit. But what if there was a way that we could make your AC unit work way,
way less, live a lot longer, and reduce the attic temperature, which would make
you more comfortable, make your home a lot more appropriate to live in, to work in,
and you will not be grouchy anymore. So let's go ahead and walk over here. And I'm
going to show you and get into the nuts and bolts of why and how that's actually
possible. So follow me. All right, guys, let's go ahead and get this attic opened
up. Oh my goodness, I could just already feel, feel the heat radiating out of this
hole. I almost feel like I want to start sweating already. Good Lord. It's only
about 95, 96 degrees outside right now. I guarantee you it's probably 170 degrees up
there. You know, I had a client one time, man, and I got in their attic. When things
get so hot up in your attic, it not only affects your energy bill, it not only
makes your AC unit work 10 times harder, and you're spending more and more and more
and more money. But man, what it does to the inside of the roof, let alone the
outside of the roof, you've got pitting where your decking starts to start
delaminating and rotting from the inside. Causes pitting, little bows in your actual
plywood, where you would think you've got rotted plywood and leaks all on your
house. But it's not. It's because you have hot pockets everywhere. And then on the
outside of the roof, if you've got an asphalt shingle roof, like most people
have, you've got premature asphalt and granule loss. You've got blisters. You've
got things starting to eat holes in your shingles. And now what happens when you
get another monsoon or you've got El Nino coming around? Now you've got to worry
about leaks just because the ventilation wasn't adequate. So there's so many
different symptoms and variables that go into the most important conversation that
you could have with your roofing contractor. And let me tell you, roofing
contractor, like Ark Roofer out of Georgetown, Texas, we are going to be the
best person to talk to when it comes to you thinking your AC unit is the problem.
Because we're going to help with both. Where only an AC guy or an HVAC company
might be giving you a systematic, a symptom approach where we're going to give
you the holistic approach and actually go through the whole system and understand
why the AC is not working like it should. So, you know what? I'm not even going to
get up here right now. I got to go eat dinner here in about an hour and I don't
want to get dripping sweat because then I'd have to take another shower.
So why don't we go outside?
Let's talk about the intake and the soffit.
How fresh air goes inside the attic.
And then we'll look at some ventilation on the upside of the roof.
And tell you kind of how a balanced system should work.
And we'll go and we'll do that first, and then
we'll see what happens after that. So.
All right. All right. All right. We're back. So very cool property that we've got
here on Highway 29. We actually knew we were going to have to renovate some
things. You know, I think this house was built in the late 70s. And of course, all
this was just a dirt road, wilderness, beavers and deer and elk and whatever else
out here is in Central Texas. I don't remember, but I wasn't born yet in the
70s. So anyway, so we bought this place. We've been doing some renovations. We
obviously got the new blue roof on the building. You can see the trim and the
eaves. We're just putting in some landscaping and stuff. But talking about
how hot that attic was. I mean, when I opened up that attic door, the heat was
just pouring down. And we're still in the process, still fine tuning some things in
the attic. And so the first thing that you'll notice here is if you see right
here where this overhang is. It's about an 18-inch overhang. Now this is called a
soffit. This is the eave. And there is zero vents that are plugged into the
soffit here. And because of that, if you keep following me around, in order for
heat to go out of the roof, fresh air has to be able to go and get pulled into the
roof or into the attic. So we do have one vent on this entire attic. And it's right
here on the gable. Now, of course, when they built this house, there was another
gable on the other side that's now fully enclosed and is a garage with a metal
building built around it. But there was just two little holes, one on each side of
the house on each gable, right? And they relied on the wind to just teeter-totter
that air and hope that it was going to work, right? There was no certification
and ventilation or anything like there is today. But right now, this is supposed to
be pushing out all of the hot air in the summer and all of the moisture in the
wintertime. And the only way that this is actually going to be able to operate is if
there's a place for fresh air to get pulled. Into the attic. Because if there's
not, when we put a fan on this, put a gable fan, and it starts pumping, the only
place it's going to start pulling air is from the inside of the building. And we're
going to be wasting our cold air. It's going to get pulled in through the can
lights and through any other openings and penetrations in the ceiling. And it's also
going to be pulling in moisture from the actual house. And so when we do that,
that's a big no-no. It's counterintuitive. And we're just wasting more and more and
more of our hard-earned money. And then the fan is going to blow the motor because
it's not pulling in. And it's being resisted by the lack of openings where air
can go into the attic. So we keep going around a little bit more. Just want to
show you I'm not fooling around. Because some people don't have soffit vents on the
front, but they've got them all on the back or on the sides. But as you can see
here, this whole row, there is not one single soffit vent on this whole entire
run. Right? So huge, huge problem. The only reason there should never be
ventilation in an attic where there's no intake and no exhaust on the roof is if
you have a fully enclosed system that is spray-foamed shut. Otherwise, you
absolutely need intake and you need exhaust. Because if you don't, you're
going to be wasting a lot of money. Your roof's going to fail. Your AC unit's going
to fail. And your attitude's going to fail. We don't want that now because that
won't be very productive for your lifestyle. Or mine either. Alright guys,
so we're going to get into a little bit of options that are available to you in
today's market. So normally, you go buy a brand new house, builder-grade
everything, and you're going to see something like this most likely on the top
of the roof. And this is going to be for the exhaust vents, for the hot air to come
out, and the moisture to escape.
And sometimes they might actually be made of plastic.
And then the other option is you might actually see a vent going linear on the
entire ridge. So those are the most common things that you'll see on a builder grade
roof. And that's okay. It might be just fine, right? But then we're going to go
into getting into some more efficient options so that you can really start
reducing your energy bill. Start having an AC unit last a lot longer because it
doesn't have to work as hard. And, of course, the ROI on making your money back
on an investment like that is you're going to have a lower energy bill month after
month, year after year. So I just wanted to kind of share with you a couple options
here. And to my right and your left,
you're going to see a brand called ROOFIVENT.
And ROOFIVENT is one of my favorite vents. It's a type of
thermoplastic on here that has a 50-year warranty out of the box. This is a turbine
vent, which is oblong shaped. And this is kind of your standard turbine vent, the
normal shape that you would normally see growing up on a farmhouse. So these are
going to be your very, very sleek 50-year warranty. And, you know, the old-school
turbine vents, a lot of times all of the bearings that they have are inside here
and they're metal. Metal rusts out, bearings get rusty, and then they start
squeaking really, really loud. Man, if hail hits one of the fins on there, it
starts to wobble, and then it just doesn't work anymore, and you've got to go and
replace them. And these right here, you've got, if hail hits one of these, you can
actually, if it does break it, it won't break it. It'll just might pop off one of
these fins, and then you can go back on here and pop on these fins all over again,
right? And then if you ever need to replace it, instead of paying for shingle
repairs and pulling out the flashings and all of that, well, let me tell you
something. The bearings are not here at the top.
They're down here in the core of the turbine vent.
And all you've got to do is unscrew this top part, which has a self-leveler on it,
so you know when you install it, it is perfectly level. And you literally, all
you've got to do is you've got to pull this whole thing apart like this.
Right? And there's no bearings, right? All the bearings are in here, and the bearings
are German-engineered. They've got oil saturated inside there. That's why they
give it that 50-year warranty. And then when you want to replace it, you just pop
this back on. Screw that top back on.
Right? And then you're good to go again. So, these not only act as an active
ventilation, but they're much more affordable than a very expensive solar fan
or an electric fan. Pennies on the dollar compared. And they actually force air out
of your attic when they spin. And so, these are a really wonderful option here.
You can choose your modern or your original. And then over here on my left,
we actually have the same thing. But these are actually for ventilation on your
walls. And I've actually got one on my wall at my house connected to my dryer
vent. And so, these are going to protect you from having lint build up and get
moist and clump together. It's going to keep all of it dry. Look at the wind just
picked up. Look how fast these things are moving right now. And I'm telling you,
these are just amazing. Just take my word for it. So many benefits. But I want to
show you something a little bit more important over here. So, if you want to
follow me, we're going to walk around and give you a demonstration of something we
already have installed over here in the back. All right.
So follow me back here.
We're going to take you to one of these storage units over here.
And while we're walking through here,
I know we talked a little bit briefly about the ridge vents. You know,
so this is kind of what I mean by a ridge vent. You bend it over the ridge. And then
it's got its ventilation here. And that's how you can have the heat and moisture
escape from your attic that way. And then you blend in with the cap shingles. So,
everything kind of blends in so you can't really tell it's there. Super cool. All
right. But let's keep walking. Got to watch out for snakes today. We are in
Central Texas. The rattlesnakes are out. The coral snakes are out. The rat snakes.
The garter snakes. The diamondbacks. Go watch out for the diamondbacks. Or else I
might have to get one of these nice shingles and smack it on its head. Or grab
this pole. This tubular pole. Yeah.
Oh! Just joking. Just joking. All right. So
let's check this one out. Just want to show you the concept, okay? Now this is a
storage container. It's not a house. But we're literally going to do the same thing
to that house over there that we just showed you, our office. Right? So we've
actually got a powered fan here. And it's solar powered. Made by Attic Breeze, which
are manufactured right here in Texas. We are, if you go to the website, you'll see
Ark Roofer as one of their main certified installers. We go through about two or
three different trainings a year just on ventilation from multiple different
vendors that have their own ventilation. So it's not just Attic Breeze, but it's
all different types of ventilation manufacturers that come and do training
with Ark Roofer every single year. So that is how important ventilation discussion is
for your home and my own home. And that's why we invest so much into it. So we can
provide you the best solution for the most efficiency on your home to reduce those
energy costs and increase those benefits. So as you can see here, this is pulling
out hot air consistently and it's got to pull air from somewhere. And so the soffit
vents that we were talking about earlier are actually coming in through a lot of
these sidewalls. And you can see these vents right here and they're scattered all
around the entire container here. So we've got enough net free air that's openings
and penetrations so that fresh air can be funneled through. And so the entire the
entire container is getting circulated a hundred percent cycle change. And so we
want to make sure that that happens so we don't have any dead spots, hot spots,
ventilation issues, moisture problems or anything like that. So very important, no
matter who you're going with, make sure that they break down a complete
ventilation analysis so that you can make sense of things on reconstructing your
entire roof. It's not just a roof. It's a roofing system. So I want to make that
very clear.
Shingles are not the only thing to worry about.
There are so many other variables that go into the entire system
that affects way more than just your roof.
We're back to where we started.
And do you think that this office needs a new AC unit
based on what we talked about today? I don't think so.
We're going to go ahead and get this thing started
with what needs to happen around the house, in the attic.
And you know what? We don't need a new AC.
So I'm so excited that I called Ark Roofer to help me save thousands of dollars.
So I'm going to close this up here. And guys, it's simple.
If you don't know, all you got to do is call us here
at Ark Roofer out of Georgetown, Texas.
And I'll catch you on the flip. Keep it simple. Keep it fun.
All right. Oh, oh man. Is it cold in here?
Oh my gosh. Well, we must have already replaced the roof
and redid the entire ventilation.
Oh my gosh. Well, heck yeah. The AC is still old crappy AC and you're cold.
Well, I'll tell you what, man. Thanks for being a cold person.
And I'm glad you're cold and not hot today.
All right. Well, I gotta go. Next appointment.
So you catch us here at arkroofer.com.
Again, I'm Luke with Ark Roofer right out here on Highway 29
in the second fastest growing city in the entire nation, Georgetown, Texas.
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