Vulnerability
Promote Cool Air Intake into Your Attic or Crawl Space.
Continuous Soffit Vents provide critical cool air intake into your home’s attic space.
Both single-family and multifamily structure use open ventilation, such as continuous soffit vents, to cool attics and crawl spaces. Without proper cool air intake, these spaces have a higher possibility to succumbing to mold, mildew, and gradually, a decomposition in structural integrity.
Continuous Soffit Vents, positioned at the upper level of a structure, play a key role in providing critical air ventilation to a structure. However, standard soffit vents cannot stop embers or flames from entering your home.
Purposefully designed and tested for both WUI and high-density housing areas, an ember-resistant continuous soffit keeps out windblown embers, flames, and high temperatures – ultimately protecting your crawl spaces and/or attic.
Features
Engineered for Protection. Built to Last.
BrandGuard’s wildfire continuous soffit vents have been tested for use in high-severity fire hazard zones and high-density housing buildings where a one-hour fire rating is required.
Flame and Ember Resistant
Complies with California’s SB 721 and SB 326
Match Your Color
Can be spray painted to match or complement the color of your home
Self-Closing Technology
When exposed to extreme high temperatures, intumescent material rapidly expands – cutting off vent openings.
Multiple Sizes
Standard and custom sizes are available
Contractor Friendly
Offers flexibility for on-site customization and modifications
Applicable for Balconies
Used on the underside of balconies for much-needed ventilation to preserve the internal structure
Our products are tested & approved
- CAL FIRE listing BML # 8165-2232:0502, BML # 8165-2232:0501
- ASTM E119 1-Hr Fire Rated
- ASTM E2886 and 2912
- California SB 721 and SB 326
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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know.
How do BrandGuard Vents work?
Home hardening is a critical factor to improve the survivability of structures during wildfires. All homes have vulnerable “point of entry” that must be sealed to avoid hot embers and fire from entering the structure. Home ventilation is essential from an energy saving point of view, however in case of a fire nearby, there is a risk of hot embers finding their way into your attic, basement, garage, etc. BrandGuard has patented a unique system to keep embers from entering your house. Our design consists of multiple line of defense:
- A baffle design which allows air to move freely, but traps embers
- BrandGuard propriety intumescent material, which expand only if high heat and extreme flames are reaching the vents
- Non combustible, metal vents which resist heat and flames
How are BrandGuard Vents different than standard vents?
BrandGuard Vents resists the intrusion of flame and embers into your attic through the building’s vents, thus protecting your home from dangerous flying embers created by wildfires.
Why are baffles better for protection?
Baffles have long been used in commercial kitchens as a way to prevent stovetop fires. We have redesigned them to help keep flames, dangerous burning embers, and radiant heat out of your home during a wildfire. Baffles provide immediate protection during a wildfire from the very first second of exposure.
Another reason baffles are better is because they provide protection from driving rain, snow, and rodents. Our vents have passed stringent driving rain tests in Hurricane labs in Florida keep heavy driving rain out at even 140mph! Rodents are unable to chew or squeeze through our vents like they do with regular mesh vents, making them an excellent option for pest control!
What is an intumescent material?
BrandGuard Vents are equipped with a propriety material (intumescent) which expands in case of fire. The thermally activated strip expands up to 30 times its original thickness, sealing off the vent completely. This is an extreme measure to make sure that fire doesn’t penetrate the home.
Are custom vents/products available?
Yes, BrandGuard Vents will work with you and your needs to create a custom fire prevention vent for your project.
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