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[quote=Anonymous]If you go up in your attic and look down towards the eaves and see daylight chances are there’s enough air sneaking in to the attic to allow a Ridge event to function properly.  
If you don’t see light or insulation is packed up to the edge a SmartVent would be a good choice.

But first you would want to see indicators that your house does need ventilation improvement, there are millions of houses constructed without ideal attic ventilation and they are just fine, yours may be one of them and someone may be looking to sell you a solution for a problem that you don’t have.

Take a look at the roofing nails that poke through the roof decking on the interior of the attic, are they rusty? Looking at those same nails are there little gray/blue streaks on the wood where the nails come through? Rusty nails and streaks on the roof decking bisecting through roofing nails are indicators of condensation at some point and if you see them then chances are your attic could use a little ventilation improvement. If the male tips are clean and there are no streaks on the roof decking then your house is running just fine and a ridge vent would be an adequate and inexpensive addition to the system. 
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