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Default Suggestions on correcting the poor ventilation in my attic?

On Feb 1, 8:45*pm, theedudenator wrote:
We have been in the house a few months, we knew we had to fix some
attic vent problems from the home inspection.

I was up in the attic today.
I have good sofit vents with foam shields to keep the insulation from
blocking.
There is a ridge vent installed along the entire length of the roof.
BUT the guy who did the work covered it with felt and shingles.

I tried to see what I could do with a razor blade, but it seems to be
too much to correct.

I can easily add gable vents and fans, but not sure this will correct
the problem.

If it matters, in the future we would like to install a whole house
fan.

This is a 2 story house.


The whole house fan requires that you have a certain amount of total
square feet of venting in the attic (generally equal to the area of
the fan itself) but it doesn't matter where that venting is - can be a
combination of soffit vents and ridge vents, mushroom vents, gable
vents, open window, whatever. -- H