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Last Updated: Friday, December 14th, 2001, Created: Friday, December 14th, 2001

My soffits vents have been covered up. What to do?

Manuel from Kingston, Ontario has just purchased a house and knows that there have been past problems with ice-damming. He inspected the attic and found that there were enough roof top vents, but the old wooden soffits have been covered up with aluminium and there were no vents installed. How can he vent his soffits without ripping off the new aluminium?

If the aluminium has a grill look to it, it may be ventilated. Go into the attic and see if you can see any in the soffit area. If it is smooth aluminium, you could cut holes through both the aluminium and the wood and install bug screens. You can actually purchase these soffit grills in both rectangular and round formats.

Keywords: Attic, Soffit, Ventilation

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