begin quoting James G. Sack (jim) as of Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:38:12PM -0700: > Karl Cunningham wrote: [snip] > > A friend of mine's roof has vents in between each rafter along the eves > > and a vent all along the ridge. Air flows in under the eves, along just > > under the roof, and out at the top. It cools the roof to reduce > > radiation from it onto the ceiling below, and allows hot air to get out. > > Just thinking: could one put little windmills in there too? >
To what end? Most houses have soffit vents, and some sort of vent towards the peak. Often, those vents are little whirlygig things that look like spherical squirrel-fans. I have a powered roof vent, but only because we couldn't find a solar one at the time. I believe code *requires* soffit vents, but not ridge vents -- First wrote "soffet", which seems to be a common spelling on teh intarwebz. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
