Roof With No Eaves

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Roof with no eaves.

Smart vent a special roof eaves vent product that provides a 3 4 opening about 6 above the top of the roof drip edge. Very tall 12 1 roof and lots of vertical wood siding. A house without roof overhangs leaves siding unprotected and vulnerable like an orphaned lamb released near a pack of wolves. So if you have shallow eaves with a flat soffit you have a very small overhang that has a flat bottom.

Plywood and has no overhangs and hence no eaves for ventilation. Venting solutions for roofs with no overhang or soffit install special roof intake venting products that work at the lower edge of the roof decking underneath the first course of shingles. Jul 12 2019 explore pam mickelson s board roof eaves on pinterest. It feels that there is a common opinion among architects that this minimal look is the thing.

He loved big eaves. An open eave has a pronounced overhang often revealing projecting roof beams or brackets. A closed eave has very little or no overhang extension beyond the siding. A passive ventilation system should have air inlets at the base of the roof usually in the soffits and outlets in the peak or gables.

Having owned a house that has no eaves i would never own or build another one unless it was flat roofed. Soffits are the underside of the eaves. And of course these houses are beautiful the simple form is not obstructed by anything. I have two questions.

The roof is sheathed with a single layer of 1 2 in. Plywood over the existing layer to strengthen the roof before shingling. A box eave is enclosed with a soffit. Most modern cabin architecture out there seems to be eaveless meaning that there is no or very minimal roof overhang eaves that go beyond the building structure.

A roof can come to an end in basically three ways. The one i bought was designed from some better homes and garden plans from the 80 s i believe. This particular detail would impose certain structural problems for all types of roof construction and may require a blocked heel or additional top chord should trussed rafters be specified. The total venting space should equal 1 150 of the floor space.

First can i add a second layer of 1 2 in.