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2. Attic - Wikipedia

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   One common code requirement is that the total area of attic vents be equal to or greater than 1/150 of the floor area of the attic, with 50 percent or more of the vent area located in the upper portion of the attic. Vents and louvers should face away from prevailing winds to keep out driven rain. Soffit vents under the eaves normally provide ...

3. Soffit - Wikipedia

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   A soffit is an exterior architectural feature, generally the horizontal, aloft underside of the roof edge. Its archetypal form, sometimes incorporating or implying the projection of rafters or trusses over the exterior of supporting walls, is the underside of eaves (to connect a supporting wall to projecting edge(s) of the roof ).

4. A Fireproof House for $5000 - Wikipedia

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   The resulting air space was to be fed by vents beneath the eaves and exhausted through the chimney to create a constant stream of moving air. [5] Modern homes often use a similar soffit and ridge vent combination to keep the attic and the floor below cooler.

5. Attic fan - Wikipedia

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   An attic fan installed underneath a roof. A powered attic ventilator, or attic fan, is a ventilation fan that regulates the heat level of a building's attic by exhausting hot air. A thermostat is used to automatically turn the fan off and on, while sometimes a manual switch is used. An attic fan can be gable mounted or roof mounted. Additional ...

6. Ridge vent - Wikipedia

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   A ridge vent is a type of vent installed at the peak of a sloped roof which allows warm, humid air to escape a building's attic. Ridge vents are most common on shingled residential buildings. Ridge vents are also used in industrial warehouses to help release the hot air and help circulate comfortable air inside the building .

7. Mercer House (Savannah, Georgia) - Wikipedia

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   Another notable feature of the home's exterior are the support brackets all around the soffit in the eaves of the roof. In 1997, Dorothy Kingery established a trademark for the home's façade, and her lawyer dispatched letters to local artists demanding that they either stop using photographs of it for their own gain, or give her 10% of their ...