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Help -- No Intake Vents!!

Name: Scott  City: Fullerton, CA

Question: I have 1955 Southern California ranch house with almost zero intake venting. I do not have soffits. My roof rafters actually make contact with the side walls. So, from the outside of the house, if I cut through the eaves, I’d simply cut through my roof and be looking at the sky. If I cut through the wall, I’d cut into the interior room. The only way to drill or cut through the wall into the attic would be to bore through the top plate of the wall, which seems all wrong from both practical and structural viewpoints, given the huge number of vents I’d have to install. However, that appears to be the method used for what little intake venting I do have. I have about four tiny (probably about 2”x6” – and that’s being generous) vents at the top edge of the exterior wall of my dining room. That’s it for the entire house, which is approx 2,200 sq ft. For exhaust vents, I have four half-circle roof vents and one gable vent. Come evening time, when it’s cool outside, my house still feels like a Dutch oven. The only recourse I can think of it to install low-profile roof vents as far down the roof (backside of house) as possible and hope it doesn’t look too unsightly. Is there anything I’m missing or some other option? Thanks for any suggestions.