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Should I install soffit or gable venting with a 3:12 pitch roof?
Code only determines how much ventilation, not what kind. There are different specifications of how much ventilation for the 2 most popular kinds which are considering.
With soffit and ridge vents, ...
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Should I install soffit or gable venting with a 3:12 pitch roof?
You want soffit / ridge vents.
One of the main purposes of the attic ventilation on asphalt shingle roofs is to allow the roof sheathing to cool such that the shingles are not subjected to ...
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Should I install soffit or gable venting with a 3:12 pitch roof?
Attic Ventilation shall be “cross ventilation “ and shall be 1/150th the area that is to be vented. (See ICC R806 Vents.)
However, there is one exception: The attic ventilation can be reduced to 1/...
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How to replace bottom of a gable wall
I'm thinking you could do a variation on flying buttresses. It's a design that has withstood the test of time.
Build a few of these, and nail them to the studs. If you can put some on both sides of ...
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Can I replace a window in a garage gable wall without adding a modern header?
A ridge board (as you've drawn it) isn't a beam. It's just a connection point and lateral bracing for the rafters, and (in the case of the overhang) support for the fly rafter. There's virtually no ...
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Do I need a temporary support wall while putting a header in a gable end wall?
A year ago I would have said that the gable end is always non-load bearing, so don't worry about it. This guy, however, had a load bearing gable end with vaulted ceilings like yours. You should knock ...
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Do I need a temporary support wall while putting a header in a gable end wall?
Assuming a modern engineered (scissor) truss system, you do not need to support the ceiling. You have common trusses running across the room to support the ceiling, and there's a gable truss over the ...
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2 angle braces on attic of a gable roof
It’s difficult to see, but I suspect your gable end wall is not ballooned framed, but rather has a double top plate. This creates a “hinge” in the wall.
The diagonal braces keep the end wall from ...
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Gable Attic Fan(s) Not Working
It sounds like you have dropped the neutral. You may have power, but no path for it to return.
Use a multimeter to see if you have 120v between the hot and neutral at the fan motor. If not, you need ...
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Are Gable vents needed on bothe ends to be effective
Yes, generally you want two vents of one type or another—one to allow air in, the other to allow air out. Could be two gable vents, soffit (eave) vents plus ridge vent, or some other combination.
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Joining 2 sides of a gable roof gutter system for rainwater collection?
You could slope the gutters (running East/West) all to the East side (or West, if that's more suitable, I'll stick with East for this answer), then at the end of the house, instead of ending in a pipe ...
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To add soffits vents or not
You already have soffits. Is he suggesting ventilated soffits? In that case, you don't need them where ventilation is blocked, and you should add them where you have the ventilated attic. It's easy ...
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How to frame gable ends above top plate?
How would I install a centered gable vent around a ridge post?
Gable vents are little more than penetrations in the sheathing, and if you're using a commercial grille they pretty much just lay over ...
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How to frame gable ends above top plate?
Bad news: your gable vents will not cut it
The primary point of venting attics in cold, snowy places (like where you're building this cabin at) is to keep the roof deck below freezing when there's a ...
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Does a leger board for a vaulted ceiling need to be beveled?
Ah, Skillion roof lean-to, not vaulted ceiling, and you want the rafters to finish flush with the bottom of the ledger.
so long as everything is sufficiently over sized I don't see a problem with ...
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Electrical: Replace light switch with smart switch, odd wiring question
2 wire switches like this are usually in Series with a thermal element like a adjustable bimetallic contact with the element in the attic.
Jumping the actual thermostat out in the attic would be the ...
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Bathroom fan venting to attic gable screen
I would raise the rigid just so it's not going down into the insulation and then refit the flexible straight to the gable screen. There's a very little chance of any moisture accumulating anywhere in ...
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What to look out for when installing a gable attic vent?
I do not see you needing a big fan; 800-1000-cfm should be plenty. I think it is a good idea especially if you have not venting part of the year. I would recommend a separate and complete vent system ...
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What to look out for when installing a gable attic vent?
It will permit good air circulation. I put in a large one , about 24" from roof peak to the bottom of the vent. My roof had low pitch so the lowest cedar board was over 8 ft long. I used 1X6 cedar ...
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Ridge Vents vs Gable Vents Energy Savings as a Percentage or $ Figure
Neither is necessarily more or less efficient. Attic ventilation is a calculation of cubic inches of airflow, taking into consideration soffit venting and outflow.
There are lots of online ...
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