All sorts of continuous ridge and soffit vent products are available to homebuilders. Many modern new homes, though, have hip roof styles that require a special continuous ventilation system.

Beware of using boards or other soffit material that has holes punched into them and called a built-in soffit vent. You can only place so many holes in those products before they lose strength to hold ...

For example, if your attic floor area is 30-by-50 feet, you would need five square feet of net free vent area in the ridge vent and the same amount in the soffit vents.

Be sure to use water-resistant wood glue, and keep your board out of the dishwasher or it might fall apart. And one more thing: Keep the wood serving boards as even as possible during glue-up to ...

2) The entire perimeter of the roof needs to have air inlets, meaning continuous soffit ventilation. What’s important is that you have continuous air entry at the perimeter of the roof down low; ...

Isolate the air moving through the soffit vents into the attic by fabricating a chimney from cardboard at the soffit in each rafter bay. On the bottom edge of each rafter nail or staple an 18-inch ...

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 […] ...

Most roof overhangs today have continuous soffit ventilation strips. Bath exhaust is almost always warm, and this air will float up and into the soffit ventilation openings.

JIM, Londonderry, N.H. A. I’ve always thought that the combination of a ridge vent and continuous soffit vents gives you good air flow from low to high, which helps reduce heat and moisture ...

2) The entire perimeter of the roof needs to have air inlets, meaning continuous soffit ventilation. What’s important is that you have continuous air entry at the perimeter of the roof down low; ...