Recent content by Bsmooth

No heat in the room anyways, insulation will be on the inside wall. Only fresh air will have to come from the Screen door, and its usually warm too. It doesn't need to go fast. I think a PC fan would work. But I don't know how fast it would run with a solar panel, or what the ratio is for Solar...

Just a regular shingled entryway, but it gets sun exposure all day long, and the only ventilation is the windows in the screen door.

Its just an entryway into the house via the kitchen. The Storm door has windows in it already. But I keep the inside door closed to stop the heat from coming into the kitchen. With the inside door closed theres no flow thru ventilation at all. Thats why I thought a small vent might work, even...

You could also put a false roof on above the regular one. That would take a lot of heat off the roof inside. Its an addon but I've heard it works very well.

Second picture shows the highest part of the entryway on the right side as you come in, which is where I was thinking about putting the vent.

About 20 miles north of Boston on the coast in Beverly.

Tough to take in such a small area, but heres a few:

I have a small shed roof entryway about 4 feet long, by 5 feet, by 8 feet sloping to 7 feet where my storm door is. It gets fairly hot in the summer and transfers a lot of that heat into my Kitchen which is where the entryway leads into. Right now its all down to the studs and I used that shiny...

Bruce here, and I have to say I'm a DIY guy and a bit of a perfectionist, which I must admit is not a great combo. But I'm slowly getting around to the fact that good enough isn't always a bad thing. I like cars, photography, and my latest thing metal detecting. My dad was a machinist, and as...