If ample fresh air isn't flowing through your attic, your home is at risk of ice dams, roof damage, ceiling leaks and other issues. Here's what you ...

Soffit and fascia are two essential components of any roofing system, helping to provide ventilation and weather protection. Soffit is the underside of the eaves extending from the roof overhang.

How Can I Insulate an Attic With Limited Ventilation? When soffit vents aren’t available, focus on using alternatives like ridge vents, gable end vents, attic fans, or wind-powered vents.

This bathroom fan vent pipe looks like a DIY installation, but it was actually installed by a pro. Never use duct tape and flexible pipe. (Tim Carter) ...

Another thing that can block air flow (and light) from even properly installed soffit vents is insulation jammed into the space between the rafters or trusses where they sit on top of the exterior ...

Ventilation occurs as the soffit vent inhales fresh outside air, where it proceeds into the attic and pushes the warm stale air out through the roof, ridge or gable vents. In the winter, these ...

The fan exhaust must vent directly to the exterior of the home. Do not put the vent termination in a roof overhang or soffit. Don’t put it on a wall near or under a roof overhang.

Isolate the air moving through the soffit vents into the attic by fabricating a chimney from cardboard at the soffit in each rafter bay.

When we have high winds, light, powdery snow will blow in through the soffit vents into the unfinished attic. When the snow melts, we have (small) leaks and water stains. How do we keep it out?

Soffit Rot Q: The soffits on the addition to our house rot out after only a few years. The soffits themselves are not vented, but there is a large gable vent. There are identical gable vents on ...