Foundation Vents (43 items found)

Crawl space vents are essential for allowing easy air flow through a home's foundation, helping to prevent moisture buildup that can lead to mold and mildew. Shop plastic and metal foundation vent covers at Ace to keep your home in top condition. 

What to Know About Installing Crawl Space Vents

Despite its many advantages, a crawl space vent can create a few problems of its own. When installing vents, you'll need to take these issues into account: 

• Excessive humidity: In excessively humid weather, the moist air will enter through an open vent, leading to high condensation levels that encourage dampness, rot and mold—the precise problems crawl space vents are intended to solve. 
• Extreme cold: In extremely cold weather, an open foundation vent risks freezing pipes, followed by bursts and leaks when the thaw arrives. And even if you avoid burst pipes, allowing frigid air to flow freely under your floors will increase heating costs dramatically.
• Potential pest problem: What's more, a permanently open crawl space vent encourages termites, rodents, and other pests to enter the foundation, which is something no homeowner wants or needs.

Foundation Vent Cover Solutions

The solution to these problems is to combine regular crawl space vents with a manual or automatic foundation vent cover that can seal off the opening when needed, while still allowing vital ventilation at other times. At Ace, we provide a range of crawl space vent products that let you do exactly that. 

Traditional or Automatic Crawl Space Vents

Old-style foundation vent cover designs need to be opened and closed by hand, which could lead to problems if the homeowner forgot to do so or if the weather changed unexpectedly. Modern automatic vent covers remove this drawback by fully opening in high temperatures to allow air circulation, then closing as the temperature drops to protect the plumbing.

To increase the convenience level even further, most automatic vent designs need no electrical power to operate, relying instead on thermally active materials that open and shut when specific temperatures are reached.

Plastic vs Metal Crawl Space Vents

A metal foundation vent is the traditional type, offering robust strength and resistance to corrosion. However, metal vent covers can also be more expensive for the most durable and long-lasting designs.

A plastic foundation vent is an alternative option that combines high toughness with full weather resistance and is also lightweight, easy to install and relatively economical.

Additional Ventilation Essentials 

As well as our crawl space vent collection, Ace stocks a full range of products to create effective ventilation in every part of your home, including roof vents and wall vents as well as heating vent covers, vent hoods and more. These products and more can help you manage moisture, protect against dampness and control temperatures from the basement to the attic.

Explore the Crawl Space Vent Department at Ace

Our range of metal and plastic crawl space vents and covers will help prevent condensation issues in homes of all types and sizes. Find both manual and automatic models available to suit your preferences and budget from manufacturers like Air Vent, Builders Edge, Master Flow and many more. Shop wall, floor and ceiling essentials online for speedy delivery to your home or select free in-store pickup to stop by your local Ace Hardware store location.