Garage Ventilation

[356Guy]

Hi All, I bought a barn with a house on the property and it has a kid of odd configuration so I need some ventilation ideas. The original structure was a 32x36x12(bottom of the rafters) rectangular building with gable ends and small soffits along the East and West sides. It seems to be a bit of a hybrid pole barn and stick construction as the main structural components are large timbers but it's studded 24" OC and the trusses are also 24"OC. Sometime later on two sides an 11' wide extension with shed roof was added on to provide more storage (see photo).

The entire building is uninsulated so it gets cold in the winter and hot in the summer. I am thinking I'll put some passive vents on the roof, vents in the eave on the west side, and possibly gable vents on each end to take care of the main part of the structure, but I am not sure how to provide air flow on the two sides with the hip roof. Any ideas on how to ventilate that ~1000 sq foot addition? Thanks!!

 

[Zeke]

More soffit vents and more roof vents on the hips? You didn't say if you were insulating the building. If so, you will need vent pans under the hip or create a ceiling with an above space that is vented. I assume that there are doors in walls between the 2 diiferent constructions.

You really didn't give much detail.

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[356Guy]

Thank you!
Yes I plan to insulate and hopefully heat the building this winter. Insulating the main building will be pretty traditional, batts on the walls, and after I put some drywall up on the ceiling I can blow in some insulation on top. Its really the hip addition that I'm just not sure how folks handle. Do you just put batts up on the ceiling and walls and not ventilate, or is ventilation required for that type of roof?

The addition was attached directly to the exterior siding on the original barn. when I bought the place, there was only a small 36" doorway on one side connecting the two parts of the building together. I have since put an 8x6 opening on the former East side exterior wall to make the new area more accessible. So eave vents in the hip area would let air in, but for its getting it out that looks like a challenge. I'll snap a few more pictures this afternoon.

 

[Outlander]

Location and more pictures will garner a ton of interested responses. Welcome aboard!