After a couple of months of dithering, I'm just about to drill and install gable vents to ventilate the roof space of our bungalow. Its boiling hot in summer up there and dripping with condensation in winter.
I've had advice about gable vents on this forum already, but have been doing further research prior to fitting. Someone suggested fitting round vents to the closed plastic soffits below the roofline in order to draw cooler air from down below to replace the hot air which will (hopefully) be expelled from the gable vents above.
Does that sound like a sensible arrangement? Is it OK to fit plastic soffit vents in a UPVC soffit? I only ask because almost all the advice I've found online talks about fitting round soffit vents in wooden or plywood soffits, which makes me wonder whether they're not designed to be fitted in plastic soffits.
Thanks in advance.
I've had advice about gable vents on this forum already, but have been doing further research prior to fitting. Someone suggested fitting round vents to the closed plastic soffits below the roofline in order to draw cooler air from down below to replace the hot air which will (hopefully) be expelled from the gable vents above.
Does that sound like a sensible arrangement? Is it OK to fit plastic soffit vents in a UPVC soffit? I only ask because almost all the advice I've found online talks about fitting round soffit vents in wooden or plywood soffits, which makes me wonder whether they're not designed to be fitted in plastic soffits.
Thanks in advance.
