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Classie Louvers are the best maintenance free gable louver vents available. Wood gable louver vents are a real problem when it comes to maintenance. Besides weathering, as wood will, when painted, these gable louver vents will allow the paint to crack and peal. Because wood is poirse, moisture is allowed to get behind the paint, and pop it off.

Classie Louvers uses aluminum sheeting manufactures by siding manufactures like Alside, Reynolds, and Alcoa. When paint is applied to aluminum sheeting, moisture is not allowed to get beneath the paint. Also these siding manufacturers bake the paint onto the aluminum sheeting, adding to the durability of the overall product.

Classie Louvers comes in over 60 colors. Really, after choosing the color, size and shape, and after installing your Classie Louvers, you will not have to do anything again to maintain your Classie Louvers.

A louver (American English) or louvre (British English), from the French l’ouvert; “the open one”) is a window, blind or shutter with horizontal or, less often, vertical slats, that are angled to admit light and air, but to keep out rain, direct sunshine, and noise. The angle of the slats may be adjustable, usual in blinds and windows, or fixed. As building management services has improved and technology has quickly changed, these louvers have been automated to save on overall cost while providing a pleasant living environment inside buildings.

louvers originated in the Middle Ages as lantern-like constructions in wood that were fitted on top of roof holes in large kitchens to allow ventilation while keeping out rain and snow. They were originally rather crude constructions consisting merely of a barrel. Later they evolved into more elaborate designs made of pottery, taking the shape of faces where the smoke and steam from cooking would pour out through the eyes and mouth, or into constructions that were more like modern louvers, with slats that could be opened or closed by pulling on a string.[1]

More modern louver windows comprise slats of glass, opened and closed with a metal lever, or they may be shutters of wood or other material.

Some modern louver systems serve to improve indoor daylighting. Fixed mirrored louver systems can limit glare and of redirect diffuse light. Such louvers may be integrated in between two panes of double glazing.[2]

louvers are rarely seen as primary design elements in the language of modern architecture, but rather simply a technical device. However, there are examples of architects who use them as part of the overall aesthetic effect of their buildings. The most well-known example is Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto who would create aesthetic effects in the facades of his buildings through the combination of different types and sizes of louvers, some fixed some moveable, and made mostly from wood (e.g. the various buildings of the Helsinki University of Technology). A second example, taking influence from Aalto, is the second-generation modernist architect Juha Leiviskä.