You mentioned soffit-ventilation with respect to ice-dams. Currently, there is blown-in insulation filling the soffit area. Could that be the root of my problem? Originally, it appears to me that the soffit area was left open. The blow-in insulation was added sometime after the house was built.
Perhaps I should remove the blown-in insulation from the soffit area. When I bought the house, the building-inspector (who did home-inspections on the side) told me the blow-in stuff was cellulose treated with a fire-retardant. He said it was basically ground-up newspaper. What's the best way to remove it? The idea of scooping it out by hand from my soffits is not too appealing.
I'd really like to come to a solution for the icing problem. I get 4-6 inch thick slabs of ice that are 2+ feet wide by the length of that part of the house (maybe 12-14 feet). You do NOT want to be under it when it gives way, suddenly, from my metal roof.
Thanks, btw, for your comments on the fan. No drip-lines that I can see, at least not from moisture within the attic. I may, in fact, install a new fan/light. I found a Broan design that I rather like. I'll have to hire someone to put in the roof vent though. I don't have the equipment to work safely atop my roof.
Jonathan Gennick
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