I was watering in the morning and looked up under the eve and could see that dust was caked in the soffit vent above me so I blasted it with water and the dirt just poured down.  If you don’t know what a soffit vent is you may have another type of ventilation technique for your attic. It gets hot in Texas and I would have cooked eggs on the sidewalk but I already had breakfast.  I changed the filter a few weeks ago and had the air ducts professionally cleaned a couple of years ago and made this discovery that everyone in the A/C business knows but maybe not everyone else thinks about, which is why I am writing this blurb today about cleaning your soffit vents. After searching to spell it correctly the world uses soffit and soffet but soffit is how dictionary .com spells it so that’s good enough for me.

When I was finishing I could see the screen again that keeps the bugs out and as clogged as the soffit vent was certainly no air was moving either.  Big problem! I quickly went around the entire house and all but one was pretty dirty.   I had turbine fans put in several years ago and noticed they did not turn as fast as they used to.  After cleaning out the vents those turbines are noticeably faster again.  So, if you are like me and never cleaned the attic vents it will pay to check yours so the air can move freely in the attic. There are many types of vents.  It was over 100 today and without air moving I can only guess how hot it could get in the attic and what that is doing to my electric bill.  What ever type of attic vents you have, if they are clogged will not do much good to move air as needed and we all know the result.  Yes, it’s another project to be done around the house but this one is fast, cheap and easy to do.

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