"Magnusfarce" wrote in message
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Can someone explain what a soffit vent is compared to a gable vent?

- Magnusfarce


"James Bond" wrote in message
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While calculating the number of soffit vents I am going to install in my
house, I am operating on the priciple that I should have equal intake
square footage (from the soffit vents to be installed) as exhaust. Now
my
question is do my existing gable vents count as intake or exhaust? And
just to be sure I am using the right term, by gable vent I mean the two
triangular vents at each end of my house that are right below the peak
of
the roof. It is my guess that after the installation of soffit vents
that
these gable vents would function as exhaust, but I want to verify that.

TIA for any help.

James
Make sure that soffit vents and gable vents are compatible and can live
together. It's possible that they might counteract each other and/or
disrupt the intended air venting. They will interfere with each other if
you have a ridge vent or roof vents.
MLD