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Bridge Boy
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# Posted: 5 Mar 2012 22:11
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Hi,
I am replacing my soffit cloth screen with either the continous vent material in 8 ft lengths or a heavy duty 6 inch fairly heavy duty wide roll of screen that I located at Lowes. I will remove soffit wood and redo with new 3/4 x 6 inch wide cedar. Does anyone know what is best?
I wonder what the US forest service people use as I had a squirrel issue where they just pushed up screen ?
Bridge boy
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 6 Mar 2012 05:31 - Edited by: turkeyhunter
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Quoting: Bridge Boy continous vent material in 8 ft lengths
thats what i used at my new camp--worked and looked great===they have it in white or brown
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 6 Mar 2012 10:11
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Hardie makes cement fiber board with ventilation holes all along the outside edge
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Bridge Boy
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# Posted: 7 Mar 2012 22:35
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Turkeyhunter and Mtn Don,
Thanks for your input on soffit vents.
I sure want to use a material that will never fail in the future.
Never thought squirrels could be such an aggravating problem!
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Retired
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# Posted: 8 Mar 2012 11:38
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I used hardi soffit board myself. In addition I used a bead of caulk around the outside of the holes and used a role of fine mesh screening, probably nylon, comes on 8" wide rolls, to keep the ants and smaller bugs from going in the air holes. I did this of course on the side you don't see, and before I nailed it in place.
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MikeOnBike
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# Posted: 9 Mar 2012 15:07
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Quoting: MtnDon Hardie makes cement fiber board with ventilation holes all along the outside edge
We did this as well. I thought about adding screen like Retired did but didn't as we were running out of time/weather.
If your soffit was painted the Hardi looks like rough wood on the finished side.
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