My hot attic

Steve Kulpa · 2006-05-31T21:30:13+00:00

our house in the Nashville area has a huge (cubic feet) attic that ishotter then hell. There are 8 of what I call 'passive' vents mountednear the peak, and plenty of soffet vents. Even so, there isabsolutely NO air flow. During the hot summer days, the few metalshelves I have in there are HOT to the touch. So the attic isabsolutely useless as storage space for anything but the heartiestitems.My plan is to replace 2 of the vents w/ those mushroom-shaped poweredvents, one on each end of the roof line, and block off the remainingpassive vents from the underside w/ a thin piece of plywood.I figurethis would force air to come in through the soffet vents and move allthat hot air out.does that sound reasonable, and do any of you experts see a problem w/that?I mean blocking off the remaining vents should suffice, right, or do Ihave to remove them and re-roof?and can you believe that the dumb assed builder actually mounted someof the vents so they cut across a rafter??? Lucky for me there are acouple where the hole is completely between two rafters, or I'd have aheck of a time mounting new vents.thanks,steve

May 31, 2006 21 Replies

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mm 20 years ago

We know volume can be measured in cubic feet. If you gave an estimate of the height of the roof, that would indicate much more. When you stand up in the attic, is the roof twice as high as you are tall? 1.5 times as high? 2.5 times. Are you about 6 feet?

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Bob 19 years ago

I can't find it.

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