Now that we have that out of the way let s get to the heart of the matter venting a house with little to no eaves or soffits.
No attic in house.
Anybody have advice including local contacts if possible about installilng a whole house fan in a house with no attic in a climate santa fe nm where it gets very cold in winter.
No you don t necessarily need an attic if you can fill the space with other stuff.
We know that running ducts in a conditioned space can be more energy efficient as can having the ac unit in a conditioned space.
One issue is how to easily close off the unit when the weather turns cold.
A critical part of the property is not accessible so do not go forward with the transaction until it is.
There are no one size fits all solutions.
On the other hand you could.
The house is well insulated.
When a house has a sloped roof and horizontal ceilings there is going to be some dead space between the ceiling and the roof otherwise known as the attic.
The most common way to add ventilation to an attic is by installing air intakes in the soffits and putting an outlet at the gable of the house.
There are homes designed without attics and there are homeowners who wish to raise their ceilings but there are energy efficiency concerns with having no attic.
In warm dry climates homes often have flat roofs with no attic.
1 attics that are small less than 30 square feet of area or under a low slope roof that does not have a minimum of 30 inches of clear opening height between the top and bottom structural members are not required to have an attic hatch by the building code.
H ow i would love not to have to crawl around my attic adding insulation repairing ducts or dealing with the equipment up there.
Attic ventilation and you do have an attic so to speak i ll get to that in a minute is a science that is unique to the architecture of each building.
An attic is only for ghosts and other mysterious live ins to keep you company.
Here s our list of five possible reasons why you cannot find an attic access in the house.