|
ULTRA CREATIVE CONCEPTS
PRESENTS
AN ENERGY PROBLEM AND THE
SOLUTION
Industry
professionals have stated that, in homes that are
built on crawl space foundations, up to and
including 25% of the heat energy is sucked out
through the crawlspace vents because heated air is
drawn to the outside colder air. A portion of the
heated air that is forced into the home above the
sub-floor is literally sucked down into crawl space
and out through the typical, standard crawl space
vents. This is because of the law of physics that
God wrote regarding air movement that says hot air
goes to cold air. The greater the temperature
differential of outside to inside air temperature,
the greater the heat loss will be. This heat loss
can cost the homeowner hundreds of dollars or more
per year because typical, standard crawl space vents
are not designed to allow for complete insulating
and sealing during the heating season.
First, we would request that you read thoroughly this
existing industry problem, and then, evaluate the
high quality Ultra CSV® Crawl Space Vent which
solves the crawlspace vent problems that exist in
the marketplace today. We at Ultra Creative Concepts
have created a new frontier in the quality of
product, workmanship, knowledge, and customer
service. The Ultra CSV® Crawl Space Vent has a
proven track record throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Feel free to explore further our website and
evaluate the product yourself:
www.ultracreativeconcepts.com.
By using the Ultra CSV ® Crawlspace Vent, you or your
contractor can remove the old vent from the outside
of the home and replace it with the new Ultra CSV ®
Crawlspace Vent also from the outside of the home.
The Ultra CSV ® Crawlspace Vent can be retrofitted
into 90 to 95% of all existing applications. Also,
we have not seen another vent which can be insulated
and sealed from the outside of the home with such
ease. Once the Ultra CSV ® Crawlspace Vent is
installed, you will never need to go under the home
again to insulate and seal your crawlspace vents for
the heating season. It’s done from the outside. For
the non-heating season, Spring, Summer and Fall, you
can remove the insulation and the sealer door to
allow for maximum air flow, and the vent will give
up to and including over 50% more free air-flow than
other typical, standard vents on the market. The
Ultra CSV ® Crawlspace Vent has a heavy duty
galvanized screen that keeps the vermin out. Our
vent can be installed by contractors, handymen, and
do-it-yourselfers through the instructions for
normal and abnormal conditions found on our website.
Most installations are standard, but for abnormal
situations, we have added instructions for various
other abnormal scenarios that our installers have
incurred and conquered. The Ultra CSV ® Crawlspace
Vent, according to homeowners’ testimonies, has been
proven to look attractive and is durable and
extremely simple to operate.
The Ultra CSV ® Crawlspace Vent was invented and
patented in Roscommon County, Michigan. It is an
American manufactured product made in Michigan for
Ultra Creative Concepts LLC, founded in July of
2003.
Ultra Creative Concepts LLC can be reached 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. EST by phone at 989/422/6284 or email at info@ultracreativeconcepts.com.
We will return all calls and emails as expediently
as possible if the appropriate contact information
has been provided. Thank you for taking your quality
time to evaluate the Ultra CSV ® Crawlspace Vent. We
are pleased to provide you with this high quality
product available to all those homeowners,
contractors, wholesalers and handymen and women that
are looking to curb the energy losses that occur
when heated air is allowed to escape from homes that
are built on crawlspaces. We are very much aware of
the fact that there are commercial buildings that
are also experiencing energy losses through the very
same typical, standard crawl space vents that have
been on the market for years.
If you are among those committed to reducing costs from
energy loss in the form of home heating fuel,
electricity, gas or hot water heat, you need to take
steps to address these issues. Most crawlspace
foundations are concrete, cinder block, or brick,
and a sizeable number of homes are built on poured
wall foundations. Our vent will also fit the
openings in almost any of these applications.
According to the census bureau, there are 1.8
million homes built on crawl spaces in Michigan
alone. Each of these homes has 4 to 8 vents.
Across the country, there are 18.9 million homes
that are built on crawl spaces according to the same
source. Our research shows the figures are
substantially higher. This is an area of energy
conservation that those in the construction industry
can no longer tolerate and/or overlook. We should,
at the very least, offer our customers an option to
a superior alternative to the existing crawlspace
vents currently on the market. We realize many
contractors play the ‘bottom line’ game in which
cost of material is often a factor. The existing
industry typical, standard vents are not performing
in an energy conserving manner. We have provided the
industry with a superior optional product that will
not only meet code but conserve energy to solve
homeowner’s existing energy problems found with the
standard products being used in today’s market. It
is time the industry stepped-up to offering higher
quality energy saving products to the consumer, and
let the consumer have the long term benefit of
higher quality energy saving products. Bottom line:
Products that barely meet code should be a thing of
the past.
The crawl space vents on the market today leave the
homeowner with numerous existing problems in which
the industry has not provided an answer until the
Ultra CSV ® Crawlspace Vent came on the market.
Let’s address these issues one by one.
1. Since hot goes to cold, any heat that is
in the crawlspace needed to keep your pipes from
freezing or to aid and assist in keeping your
subfloors warm is being sucked into the
crawlspace and out through the crawlspace vents
between each heating cycle. This process is why
the subfloors are so cold and furnaces have to
kick-on sooner and run longer. When the heated
air from the furnace and or from boilers is sent
down into the crawl space, it is subjected to a
very frigid temperature. The heating system has
to push cold air or cooled water through the
existing heating system causing units to run
more often and cycle longer to bring the home
temperature back up to a desired level. Standard
vents meeting code mechanically close, but they
do not seal. We at Ultra Creative Concepts have
shown this demonstration to thousands of
individuals, and they are amazed. However, this
is how it works. Take a standard brand new vent
and close it to its maximum closed position,
hold it up to the light, and, with all slider
vents, you can literally read a newspaper on an
angle through the gaps and not miss a word. They
restrict, but they do not seal. In order to
seal these units, homeowners must go into their
crawlspace and crawl around to each vent to
hopefully maximize insulation in the 8” pocket
between the inner side of the block and the
crawlspace vent. In most cases, it is a
thankless job. The vents only partially get
sealed still allowing heat to be sucked out
through the uninsulated areas of the opening
which the vents have been cemented into.
Normally, vent pockets are the size of one
concrete or cinder block. Homeowners from year
to year will normally use the same batting
insulation that they have left in their crawl
space from the previous years. The unit does not
get sealed off properly. Sometimes this batting
or insulation is too damp or old to effectively
do the job. Many homeowners just simply close
the vents. In other cases, they attempt to close
the vents since these vents have mechanically
malfunctioned years before. We have seen
everything used from duct tape to bales of hay,
bags of leaves, blue board, plywood, Styrofoam
and many other homeowners’ attempts at trying to
deal with these inadequate products.
2. Most crawlspace vents that are on the
market today fall into these categories.
a. A slider louver type that slides back and
forth to mechanically close the ventilation
openings. These types of crawl space vents are
commonly constructed of pressed or cast aluminum
or plastic. The majority of these all have
operational problems. Sometimes just simply the
weight of the house causes a bowing effect which
makes the unit incapable of being closed. These
vents are also subject to installation problems
that simply can be caused by mortar getting in
between the tracks and not allowing the unit to
be operated as intended. These vents have a
very fine screen on the backside of the louvered
unit. Someone has convinced the industry that
this is to keep the insects from entering the
crawl space. Anyone who has ever set in a
screened in porch knows that this concept is a
farce. Also, it is extremely important for the
industry and the homeowners to understand that
insects, when they are born, are about the size
of the head of a pin. No matter how small the
screen, the insects simply enter into the nice,
cool damp seclusion of the homeowner’s
crawlspace to live there at their leisure. Also,
the fine screen restricts air movement.
Vents are supposed to ventilate to their maximum in
warm weather. The more restriction you place
behind the vent, the less ventilation you will
have underneath your home.
The construction industry and homeowners are also not
aware that when these vents are open during the
non heating season, you can stick your finger
into the last louver to the left or right. It
depends on whether the vent has been installed
right side up or upside down. This screen that
is supposed to keep the bugs out is literally
not attached to the backside of the majority of
these vents. When you push with your finger ever
so gently on the screen, even with the slightest
of pressure, the screen will bend back and
open-up to allow an opening big enough that
mice, snakes, and other vermin can literally
enter the crawlspace right through the
crawlspace vent. For years, women have wondered
how the mice get into their house. In many
cases, it is right through the crawl space
vents. Why would a mouse choose to chew a hole
when one is ready-made in the crawlspace vent?
The mouse can stick its nose at the screen at
the last louver and enter at free will. We
challenge anyone who disbelieves this to go down
to their local lumber yard or hardware, ask for
a vent and test it for yourself. So obviously,
if standard vents can’t keep mice out, how can
they keep the insects out or anything else out?
(Snakes or vermin or bats anyone?)
b. We apologize in advance for being snide,
but the latest and greatest new crawl space vent
is one that is designed to, “operate
mechanically/ automatically” (Isn’t that a
beautiful word “automatically”?) They expect
you to believe that this vent will automatically
open and automatically shut at the appropriate
times and appropriate temperature. We have
replaced many such automatic vents as well as a
huge number of the slider louver type vents. The
automatic vents, like the slider or louver
vents, are extremely susceptible to insects
entering through the vents into the crawlspace.
Additionally, automatic vents also have to be
insulated from the back in order to keep heat
from being sucked out through the block size
pockets which set behind these supposed
automatic vents. What has been proven to us
beyond a shadow of a doubt and can be proven to
any contractor or homeowner is, by design, these
vents will work extremely well if you buy one
and stick it on your coffee table or any other
location inside of your home. Beyond any
argument or discussion, these vents have been
proven to fail if installed on the outside of
your home by homeowners, contractors and our own
industry professionals. The environment on the
outside of your home is way too harsh to allow
these units to operate effectively for any
length of time, especially in humid conditions.
In fact, the design has too many mechanical
parts that can malfunction. They cannot function
in almost any outside environment. In a very
short period of time they malfunction due to
spider webs, mud daubers, grass and sand from
lawn mowers and weed whackers, pollen, and
simple environmental impact and or corrosion.
If a contractor or a homeowner has the following
problems in and around their home they would
certainly want to evaluate the options that the
Ultra CSV® Crawlspace Vent provides.
a. Does the home have cold floors?
b. Does your furnace turn on too often,
and run too long?
c. Do you have high heat bills?
d. Do the homeowners or their families
have allergies?
e. Is there a musty smell coming up from
the crawlspace?
f. Is there dampness in the house or
crawl space?
g. Are rodents living rent free in your
crawl space/home?
h. Are your current crawlspace vents hard
or impossible to open or close?
i. Are the screens chewed through by
vermin?
j. At present, in order to insulate the
vents, would you have to crawl down into the
crawlspace?
If any of these problems and a host of others exist
with the present crawl space vents the Ultra CSV ®
Crawlspace Vent is the answer. Simply go to
www.ultracreativeconcepts.com or call 989-422-6284
This is to our knowledge the best option for existing
homes with crawl spaces which have chosen and or are
required by code to have crawl space ventilation.
Simply install or have your contractor install the
Ultra CSV® Crawlspace Vent in your home now or when
the home is being constructed.
The Ultra CSV® Crawlspace Vent is the best retrofit
crawl space vent on the market, bar none! So say our
customers and many industry professionals.
Product information, product presentation,
Installation videos, dimensions, testimonials,
installer download information and more is available
on our website.
Ultra Creative Concepts is looking for wholesaler
outlets, individual contractors, handymen, and
privately employed persons who want to add this
product to their arsenal of quality products and
services which they provide to their customers.
Ultra Creative Concepts stands ready to evaluate
marketing ideas and concepts that any individual may
offer in order to expand its marketplace. Ultra
Creative Concepts also would entertain the potential
of doing a joint venture with an existing company
and/or product line.
|
