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Re: Attic vents

To: "George P Dausch IV" <gpd4@juno.com>
Subject: Re: Attic vents
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 21:31:12 -0600
From: George P Dausch IV <gpd4@juno.com>
To: pethier@isd.net <pethier@isd.net>
Cc: keithka@Exchange.Microsoft.com <keithka@Exchange.Microsoft.com>;
shop-talk@autox.team.net <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, November 10, 2000 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: Attic vents

>Ridge vents are supposed to relieve heat buildup under the roof in the
>summer.  Available operable (closable) or fixed (always open).  A poor
>idea best case, and I make a lot of money removing these guranteed roof
>leaks and replacing with roof sheets.  If you want to keep them,
>definitely seal them off for the winter and heat away.

Sound advice.
>
>I heat my shop with a used mobile home heater.  Uses oil, cost me $125,
>mounted on a platform about 8' in the air.  I have 14" ceilings,
>insulated the overhead doors, and it keeps the area any temperature I
>want it.

How does this vent the smoke out of the building?
Where does the combustion air come from?

Phil Ethier    Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC   pethier@isd.net     http://www.mnautox.com/
"It makes a nice noise when it goes faster"
- 4-year-old Adam, upon seeing a bitmap of Grandma Susie's TR4.

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