ruggers Posted October 6 Posted October 6 (edited) What are my options for to vent my cold loft at the eaves end of the roof? I'm installing slates on my self build roof 35 pitch. 200 soffit. The ridge doesn't have to be vented but I'm looking to install a different ridge tile to the traditional vented ridge with visible rubber spacers. Because I'm installing MVHR which is going in the loft, I'm looking for as much air movement as possible for the summer heat build up. https://mayanroofingsystems.com/system/ridge/all-in-one/ I'm installing anthracite UPVC soffit and fascia and know that there vented soffit boards, but are there other options? I'd prefer not to have the weight of the slates bearing onto the fascia so a tilt fillet is likely to be used which rules out over fascia vents. I'd image continuous vented soffits attract a lot of dirt because my current white ones with circular vents are filthy every 2 years. Edited October 6 by ruggers
lookseehear Posted Tuesday at 12:59 Posted Tuesday at 12:59 (edited) Double post Edited Tuesday at 13:01 by lookseehear duplicate
lookseehear Posted Tuesday at 13:00 Posted Tuesday at 13:00 Not sure if you've solved this yet but I don't think having a tilting fillet stops you doing over-fascia ventilation. See the below from LABC.
ruggers Posted 11 hours ago Author Posted 11 hours ago @lookseehear hi, thanks for the detail. I don't think it works because the idea of the tilt fillet is to keep the slates right at the eaves to prevent them dropping, and to aldo mean the weight of the eaves course is on the timber fillet and not on the upvc facia. Adding the over fascia vent then puts the weight back onto the fascia rendering the tilt fillet useless unless I'm missing something obvious.
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