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Default Current best practice for roof vents?

Chet wrote:

If you have a ridge vent then you probably have an inverted V
style roof, which means you could mount a fan on the side wall
of the attic (or both side walls) and have it blow outside air
into the attic, thereby helping to force the hotter attic air
up and out through the ridge vent.


This is horrible advice. It demonstrates the understanding of
basic physics.

Forcing air from an "outside wall" inward would be taking in
elements such as water from something God created called rain.


So you're saying that a fan that's mounted flush to a vertical wall,
with a screen, and probably with a rain shield mounted over it's
exterior opening, is going to pull in air with such force that it's also
going to draw in any rain that just happens to be falling at the time
that the fan is being commanded to turn on by the thermostat that's
controlling it?

Did you ever consider the fact that if it's raining, that its probably
cloudy, and your attic fan controller might not sense that your attic
space is hot enough to require the fan to be turned on?

The fan would pull water from the louvers of any vent.


What exactly are you smoking?

You have absolutely no concept of building practices.
You're nothing but a hack.


You have little to no concept of physical reality.

I suggest you start taking your medication before your dimentia gets
worse.