Patent ID: 8205398

Claim:
A fascia board for attachment to a lower edge of a roof exposed to an attic space below the roof, the fascia board comprising: an elongated substantially monolithic body having a thickness, an outside face, and inside face, a top edge, and a bottom edge; a plurality of spaced apart vent pockets extending into the inside face of the body a distance less than the thickness of the body, the vent pockets having lower edges spaced from the bottom edge of the monolithic body, the spaced apart vent pockets forming ribs therebetween; selected ones of the ribs extending beyond the lower edges of the vent pockets toward the bottom edge of the body; plunge cuts extending into the bottom edge of the body between the selected ones of the ribs, the plunge cuts intersecting the vent pockets between the selected ones of the ribs to form flow paths from the bottom edge of the body, to the vent pockets, and into the attic when the fascia board is attached to the lower edge of the roof.