Looking for SmartVent installer Akron, OH area

I am looking for a contractor that has experience installing the smartvent product, to install them on my 1914 house. Does anyone know of a trusted contractor who knows about smartvents and has installed them in this area?

Tin man, is that bad or good?

OOH, I love the internet. A little knowledge is a dangorus thing.

Keeler, The problem you are going to run into is that even if you install the smart vent at the soffit, the insulation is still going to transmit the heat to the roof and it is still going to ice up in the winter. As long as the insulation is touching the bottom side of the roof deck, this will continue to happen.

What we have done in similiar situations is to build a 'cold roof" over the existing one. It would be expensive, and it requires someone that has carpentry skills as well as a roofer and insulator/ ventilator. It will fix the problem permanently and it will make the upstairs livable in the summer too. Here is what one looked like when we were doing it. After we were finished, the ice dissappeared. just a thought. good luck.

https://picasaweb.google.com/crookston.john4/ColdRoofInKalamazoo?authkey=Gv1sRgCOTnivPelaiZGg#

Email me. We install DCI products "Smart Vent" And in the last two years have also been using Air Vents "The Edge Vent". This summer we started using Air Vents "Hip and Ridge Vent" for the hip roofs. We are an Ohio Company and not to far from you.

Email me. We install DCI products "Smart Vent" And in the last two years have also been using Air Vents "The Edge Vent". This summer we started using Air Vents "Hip and Ridge Vent" for the hip roofs. We are an Ohio Company and not to far from you.

Thank you, Egg, for the encouragement to share more.

Here is a link to pictures: https://picasaweb.google.com/timkeel/RoofingForum?authkey=Gv1sRgCLLtoLS-4pu9Jg

And here is a basic rundown of the story of the house:

I'm trying to prevent ice dams this winter in my Northeastern Ohio home. This is a 1914 1 3/4 story 28 ft square home. It has balloon framing and no soffits. It has 2 gable end vents and a ridge vent with about a 1 inch slit along the ridge board into the roof vent. There is a dormer on each side of the house that leaves only about 6-7 feet of gutter on each side of the house. I have tried to seal leaks into the attic and insulated the access door into the attic. The attic has fiberglass insulation filling the ceiling joists (6 inches), and 10 inches over the top of that. The corners of the house have no attic area above them, and in these areas, the roof rafters are also the ceiling joists, which were all designated as walk-in closets. This area has fiberglass insulation in the ceiling joists (3 1/2 inches with 4 1/2 inch deep ceiling/roof joists) This leaves an open rectangle area in the attic of about 15 by 28 ft. I had an energy audit last winter to identify leaks and check insulation and have addressed the items mentioned. Those folks thought the insulation was adequate but had no suggestions how to lower the attic temperature. I also followed a suggestion of rolling fiberglass insulation in a plastic bag and blocking the top of each open bay of the baloon framing where it ends in the attic.

The temperature range in the attic this past year has been a low of 29 degrees and a high this summer of 135 degrees. Thus, when it snows, the snow over the central area melts and runs down and freezes at the gutters, which are about 7 feet long at each of the four corners of the house. The snow melts much slower over the corner areas. The main rectangular area seems to be the culprit.

One more complicating piece: the front of the house (left side in the pictures) has the original plaster walls with foam injected into the wall cavities and the ceilings of the corner closets. The back half of the house has fiberglass insulation and dry wall.

It know that I need more ventilation. I'm just not getting the cold air from outside into the attic. That's why I was looking at the smartvent.

There are some very good roofers from Ohio who stop in here from time to time. If you have a little patience, one of them will turn up here and at least put you in touch with someone who can help you out. If you want to be ready for that, a little more information would help. Maybe a picture or two.

I am looking for a Smart Installer too

Sorry, I am new. I am not a roofer, just a homeowner.

This actually can be installed up higher on the roof, which is what I was looking at. http://www.dciproducts.com/html/midroof.htm This is a 1 3/4 story 1914 square house with a large dormer on each side, leaving only a small gutter area on the corner. There are no soffits and not much room to install then, and even then, a hard job.

Is that the stuff they install along the bottom of the roof for "soffit" intake? I think I would just install soffit vents if it were my house