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Originally Posted by fred cook
The best thing you can do is have a continuous ridge vent installed along the peak of the roof. That will give you continuous hot air venting without having to install a fan or other type of powered vent. I had that done several years ago when I had my home re-roofed and it made a lot of positive difference!
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My understanding is the ridge vent is not as effective without soffit venting to help the flow.
I'm not saying a ridge vent isn't a good idea, but that the whole venting process usually includes more than one aspect for it to all come together.
When we re-roofed my house in metal earlier this year, we decided against a ridge vent, and just stay with the two existing gable vents and passive venting. They are oriented north-south so that should work the best for our prevailing wind directions here.
Earlier in the thread I mentioned the prospect of adding a thermostatically controlled fan to push hot air out one end and that is something I'm probably going to try. I have a recording thermometer on order to help me with stats.