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Both roof and soffit vents needed.(The Orlando Sentinel)
Byline: Ken Sheinkopf
I had a letter recently from a reader who was buying a new home in Florida and noticed that there were no ridge vents or other vents high up on the roof. The only venting for the roof came from continuously perforated soffits on the perimeter of the house.
His builder explained to him that ridge vents were not needed because cooler air will be drawn in through the soffit vents and will push the hotter air out through those vents.
I talked to a few researchers at the Florida Solar Energy Center about this strategy, and they all thought that a roof with just soffits and no ridge vents would not ventilate the attic as well, ...
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