Product
Self-Closing
Foundation Vents
An ember-resistant and fire-rated foundation vent allows your crawl spaces to be properly ventilated while mitigating wildfire damage and devastation.
SELF-CLOSING TECHNOLOGY
FITS INTO EXISTING VENTS
20 YEAR WARRANTY
Vulnerability
Maintaining Proper Air Flow in Your Crawl Spaces & Garages.
Foundation vents are a vital component of a home’s crawl space system.
With the primary functionality of promoting air circulation beneath a home, foundation vents regulate moisture levels and improve your home’s air quality. Without proper ventilation, crawl spaces and garages trap humidity from the ground and surrounding environment, leading to the growth of mold and mildew.
Connected to unhabitable parts of one’s home, foundation vents act as prime pathway for embers and flames to ignite a home. With the lack of human activity and flammable materials, foundation vents can pose as a threat to homes, located in high-risk wildfire zones.
To address this issue, outfitting your home with ember-resistant foundation vents will allow your garage and crawl spaces to be properly ventilated without the threat of wind-blown embers and flames.
Features
Engineered for Protection. Built to Last.
BrandGuard’s ember-resistant foundation vents provide critical cooling and ventilation to the crawl space, sub-floor, or garage.
Flame and Ember Resistant
Tested and approved for use in high-risk WUI zones
Triple Protection
Engineered with several layers of protection, each designed to prevent ember and fire intrusion
Self-Closing Technology
Expands when exposed to high temperatures – sealing off vent openings only when necessary
Pest Protection
Blocks rodents, insects, and pests from entering your home
Tailored to Fit
Can be spray painted to match or complement the color of your home
Anti-Clogging Baffle Design
Anti-clogging overlapping baffles to trap embers and stop the spread of fire
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 rated for all fire hazard WUI zones
- Chapter 7A of the California Building Code
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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know.
How do BrandGuard Vent 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.
What are the key differences between soffit vents and eave vents?
Eaves and soffits overlap, so many homeowners are unsure whether they need one or both types of vents. Despite their proximity to one another they have quite different forms and functions.
Soffits/Continuous Soffits are long boards fixed to the underside of your home’s rafters, connecting the overhanging part of the roof to the side of the property.
Eaves can be exposed, boxed-in, abbreviated, or soffited. Providing a decorative and practical function, they are the edges of the roof, which is why you can hear them referred to as “roof eaves.”
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