Instead, gable vents are at each end of the house. The intakes are soffit vents. This seems to have worked fine with our current roofing, three-tab asphalt shingles with felt underlayment.

The reason he gave was that both roof vents and eave vents had been accidentally installed. I believe he called them continuous ridge and soffit vents. The builder said the whole-house […] ...

Soffit vents should not be your home’s only vents, though. If they are, the air movement is restricted to the attic floor, and airflow does not pass over the roof sheathing.

One is to route it over to a soffit vent and attach it to the back of the soffit vent, but this can work against your exhaust fan because that’s actually an air intake, so not as good as other ...

Bath exhaust is almost always warm, and this air will float up and into the soffit ventilation openings. You now have put the water right back up into the attic without realizing it.

The result is a continuous vent exhausting hot attic air that is replaced with cooler outside air drawn in through the soffit vents. Do this and you may forgo installing an attic fan of any kind.

The exhaust must exit your home through a sidewall or out through your roof. Do not put the exhaust termination pipe under a soffit where the greasy vapor can enter soffit vents and get into your ...

The exhaust must exit your home through a sidewall or out through your roof. Do not put the exhaust termination pipe under a soffit where the greasy vapor can enter soffit vents and get into your ...