Patent ID: 8528269

Claim:
A fascia vent for installation underneath a roof overhang, the fascia vent comprising: an elongated fascia board having an outside face, an inside face spaced from the outside face, a top edge, and a bottom edge, the fascia board being sized for installation along a lower edge of a roof and having at least one open space between the inside face and the outside face; a plurality of spaced apart slots formed into and along the inside face of the fascia board and extending partially into the at least one open space between the inside and outside faces of the fascia board, each slot including a lower end that interrupts a bottom edge of the inside face to open the slot to ambience, and each slot extending upward along the inside face from the lower end to an upper end spaced from the top edge of the fascia board and located above a soffit board installed beneath the roof overhang; wherein each slot defines a vent path extending into and along a portion of the inside face of the fascia board from the bottom edge of the inside face to above the soffit board and opening into an interior of a soffit bay of the roof, and the slots further being sized and shaped to present a net free ventilating area pre-selected to compliment a net free ventilating area of an attic exhaust vent to be used together with said fascia vent.