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Originally Posted by chipj29
We have a whole house fan. It works great, really moves the air around...but...
Our house is a ranch. Here is how it works. The attic tends to get real hot, which in turn makes the house hot. So we turn on the whole house fan and open the windows. Well, I think my attic ventilation might be a bit inadequate, because the whole house fan blows the hot attic air out the soffits. Again, the house is a ranch so all the windows are right under the soffits. The whole house fan creates a nice breeze throughout the house...but it sucks in that nice hot air that just got blown out the attic soffits.
I need a roof top attic fan like you. Something...anything to help vent the attic a bit better.
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Can you duct the air from the fan over to a large gable end vent ?
A HVAC company could probably put something togther easily. A homeowner cheap yankee way would be to construct a light weight plywood box to sit over the fan and a suitable length of large flex duct (solid sheet metal would work better) like an HVAC company would use for a cold air return, snaked over to a gable end vent would direct the air away from the soffits.