Marvin Trease (Owner)

[marvintrease]

I have a pole/metal building that is leaking all the way down the middle of the building from the ridge cap. Rain and snow. The building is 60 feet wide and 150 feet long.

The building has soffit vents but their is no gap in the metal at the peek and no vent material under the ridge cap.

I have been told that there should be at least a 4 inch opening at the peek and should have a ridge cap vent material installed that will allow the building to breath, but not allow moisture to enter.

Any suggestions?

 

[Shade guy]

We never use any kind of venting at the ridge. Unless we install ridge vents which are big ugly boxes that sit on the ridge. Do you have small sheets bent to match your roof pitch? Is the roof R panel? Can you see light from the inside ?

 

[Kaizen]

Each manufacturer has a vent set up for metal peak covers. its pricey though. I did not put anything on the suggestion from several roofers when i did mine. The plastic stuff for mine was more then the actual roof cap so i did not put it in. big mistake. I had one storm this winter blow in snow and freeze. then when it melted my whole garage was full of water. Suppose it depends on the orientation to the winds and roof pitch.