Roof Features That Protect the Condition of Your Roof | Arlington Development

Your home is important for protecting your family. After all, it covers all of your home, your family, and those things within your home! So, this often forgotten home safeguard is particularly important to the health and safety of your home. There are special parts of the roof that can enhance your home and protect it, but which are often overlooked. What are some of the roof features which protect the condition of your roof?

Roof Vents

You have ventilation access on your roof, which you’ve seen before but might not have known what it was. One reason that your roof needs ventilation is that unless it has extra vapor barriers, it does get some moisture seepage in rain, no matter how well it’s doing its job. Ventilating the air in the attic space and roof insulation itself keeps insulation dry and keeps mold issues from becoming a problem.

Roof Flashing

Roof flashing is sort of like metal tape which holds together the spaces of the roof where there are joints, angles, or edges underneath. This includes places like around the chimney, and around the edging of the roof. There are multiple types of roof flashing that can be used depending on where it's being placed on the roof. But all of the types protect where the roof needs sealing around the edges of things and keeps both water and pests from entering your home through those cracks.

Soffit

If you stand under the eaves of your roof and look up, you will see your soffit! This is the boarding that covers the underside of your eaves, protecting the roofing. Though soffits look sealed off, they are important to the ventilation of your home! The soffits open into the roof itself, so you want to make sure that they are always taken care of and in good condition. This helps the ventilation in your roof and attic, which creates a healthier air atmosphere in your home!

Your home needs protection and your roof is the first line of defense. Being able to protect the home by protecting the ventilation and moisture levels, preventing rain from getting into your home and causing leaks, and being a barrier against mold is important. Make sure you look upwards periodically and make sure everything is still spinning, still covered, and still protected! Keep your home safe by keeping your roof maintained.

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