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Old 2/2/08, 10:28 PM
Brian A. MacNeish Brian A. MacNeish is offline
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Default Re: Ice Damming

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Originally Posted by dpotts
You're sining my song!

I think you would agree that that increasing ventilation without reducing heat loss can actually be more destructive.
Been saying that for about 30 years. Was glad to see the CMHC "About Your House" brochure Attic Venting, Attic Moisture and Ice Dams in 1997-8 or so as it finally supported what I was saying to people since 1977-8 when I discovered the NRC Building Digests and CMHC's The Conservation of Energy in Housing.

See: http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/co/mah...gemare_001.cfm
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