Installing Attic Fan To Cool Down My house

all right guys in the summer time our houses get really hot the sun beats down on our roof and we need to figure out how to get all that hot air inside out to keep our houses a lot cooler that is where installing an attic fan can accomplish just that today i'll be showing you how i'm going to install this amazon purchase remington solar powered 20 watt attic fan that requires zero wiring as you can see it's already working and an easy installation in the meantime try not to kill ourselves on the roof [Music] it's probably a bad time to share with you guys that i don't like ladders and heights and roofs and uh all three are here okay try to play cool so you wanna install the static fan as high of the highest point of your roof as possible they're recommending two feet down from the ridge make sure it's not hitting the rafter so see on where it is i know there's a rafter there and they're typically between some are 14 some are 16 some are 20 so figure out where your rafters are i have a vent ridge line vent there so i know there's no rafter here we need to cut a 14 and a half inch hole specific for the attic fan i'm working with i'm going to put a whole screw down the middle here and create a circumference and figure out the radius of it that's 14 and a half inches wide [Music] this would be a great time to have like a white sharpie huh using a black sharpie on a black roof when it's 70 degrees outside what could be worse well it could be 100 degrees that's one thing that could be worse it's true be optimistic be thankful don't die to make a life easier you can always drill a hole pilot hole with a drill or you can just use an angle slowly until you start getting a little bite [Music] all right now that our hole is cut up we're gonna use a pry bar and start prying up around this area the nails that are holding the shingles in place because this puppy is going to slide underneath them you guys roof is not as steep as mine you see the videos like installing like this people got like a flat roof i'm like oh must be nice at us here on this mr builder channel we put our life in danger for you so embarrassing took off my christmas decoration and it's may and i didn't take the clips off might as well it's fun playing catch on the roof or you drop things you gotta go get em all right now that we got everything off we're gonna use our sealant get a nice bead and i love that this thing is solar powered oh i think i got him try getting screws out of your pocket sitting on a roof good luck if you're burning the channel consider subscribing all right all i got left is to just make sure the radius is trimmed around the shingles so it's nice and pretty i look real good [Applause] time is 155. that means if anything happens to me we'll know my last known well last starter business cover your screw holes with sealant so water doesn't seep through them i can feel that it's so crazy seeing a work solar and there we go all right so the atticfan is installed it's working if you're questioning about water there's a reason why you put it on the top and not some are flat water runs down here goes over the shingles hits this little half pipe and goes down and because this is underneath all the flash all the shingles and this access zone flashing it goes all the way down if this was in a corner somewhere water could seep up here but it won't it just goes over so don't kill me in the comments this is how all the pros install it i'm not a pro i just want to be one one day yeah let's get down it's hot i hate oops all right just to show you guys that this is how i install them see this is the ridge vent this has already installed the house the flashing is right below shingles are over it that's my furnace nope that's not my furnace that is my water heater the exhaust for it and uh look same thing there so i'm not a dummy okay stop saying that hey thanks so much for sticking with watching one of my videos it means the world to me if you're brand new to the channel make sure you hit the subscribe button tap the notification bell so you'll know when i put this video out hope you guys learned a lot on this project tune out this week we'll see you guys on the next one see ya bye [Music] foreign