oldognewtrick

Shane, in your first post you mention attic heat and adding ridge vent, looking at your photos I don't see any soffit vents to allow for air intake into the attic. Ventilation is a 2 part equation. For the ridge vent to exhaust it has to be able to intake air. Sort of a chimney effect developes, hot air rises and draws cooler air in at the soffit, lower portion of the roof. Are there vents at the soffit?

shane2943

I really just want to be able to have a little extra storage above the joists (accessable by step ladder) like laying long pieces of wood that are currently on the floor across the joists to store them. I would want to build a shelf attached to pullys that would raise up in between 2 ofthe joists for more storage. And then, I'd want to hang the filteration doohickie in the attic space from the roof joists. The filteration system would hang too low and get in the way with the drywall ceiling in place.

How could I get around the fire break issue? I certainly don't want to create a space that is unsafe or not up to code.

oooOOOooooh! That's what Romex is! Mainly, it just needs to be cleaned up, and by cleaned up, I mean stapled to the joists instead of just laying across them.

Thanks, man!

The house does have soffit vents all the way around, but I would argue that it doesn't have enough soffit venting. That's another project for me. Some of the soffits and trim are rotting, so I need to replace the soffits and trim anyway. I was wanting to go with a 1.5" continuous soffit vent all the way around the house. Currently, it has 3X6 oval shaped vents about every 6-8 feet.

havasu

Can I ask to see a picture of your 3x6 oval soffit vent?

shane2943

No, you may not! Those are personal and private!


(I'll take a pic when I get home. )

oldognewtrick

awww... come on, humor the retired guy. This is the highlight of his day viewing soffit vents

shane2943

OK, here's a couple pics of my holes....err...soffit vents:

The vents are actually more like 3X8 instead of 3X6. But that's neither here nor there because either way, it's not enough venting.


And here's the spacing:

shane2943

You keep being nice to me and I might show you my duct work.

havasu

Thanks for the pics. The reason for asking was that I've been involved with lots of new house construction, and never seen an oval soffit vent. Heck, what a great place to install some 6"x9" speakers!

shane2943

Shoot, that's what I got this for (notice the upper corners and the sub at the lower right):


What I NEEED is some decent venting (eventually).

oldognewtrick

uhhh...you really don't need to do that...really.