{"id":27953,"date":"2014-06-05T01:18:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T01:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=141fd81643733e98dd74c2328a7aa599"},"modified":"2014-06-05T01:18:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T01:18:52","slug":"the-top-two-reasons-powered-attic-ventilators-are-a-waste-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/the-top-two-reasons-powered-attic-ventilators-are-a-waste-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top Two Reasons Powered Attic Ventilators Are a Waste of Money"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Despite how fervently some people believe in them, powered attic ventilators don&rsquo;t pass building science muster        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/top-two-reasons-powered-attic-ventilators-are-waste-money\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/powered-attic-ventilator-fan-gable-vent-energy-vanguard.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Powered attic ventilator in a gable end \" width=\"144\" height=\"96\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/top-two-reasons-powered-attic-ventilators-are-waste-money\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/radiant-barrier-solar-gain-roof-deck-conduction-radiation-without_0.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Radiant heat gain in an attic\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Three years ago I wrote an article titled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyvanguard.com\/blog-building-science-HERS-BPI\/bid\/38676\/Don-t-Let-Your-Attic-Suck-Power-Attic-Ventilators-Are-a-Bad-Idea\" title=\"Don&rsquo;t Let Your Attic Suck - Power Attic Ventilators Are a Bad Idea\"><em>Don&rsquo;t Let Your Attic Suck: Power Attic Ventilators Are a Bad Idea<\/em><\/a>. Nearly a hundred thousand page views and 93 comments later, it&#8217;s still generating lots of heat. I don&#8217;t know why so many people are so defensive about powered attic ventilators (PAVs), but here are a few of the things they&#8217;ve said to me in the comments:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/top-two-reasons-powered-attic-ventilators-are-waste-money\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12449,12058,11985,12703,9941],"class_list":["post-27953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-attic","tag-heat-flow","tag-infiltration","tag-powered-attic-ventilator","tag-radiant-heat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}