Patent ID: 6484459
Filing Date: 2002-11-26
Classification: E04H,Y02A

Abstract:
A method for protecting roofs against windstorms comprising steps of:providing a plurality of one-way venting valves over openings in a building envelope, respectively to ensure that at least one of the one-way venting valves is located on a lee side of the building envelope regardless of wind direction, the one-way venting valves closing under wind pressure to prevent inward air flow and being free to open to permit outward air flow when on the lee side; closing openings in the building envelope not covered by the one-way venting valves during windstorms; and whereby indoor air flows freely out of the building envelope through the at least one of the one-way venting valves to a lee zone on the lee side to depressurize the inside of the building envelope to counteract an uplifting force on a roof of the building envelope induced by winds over the roof.