The attic must be ventilated to protect the roofing system against excessive heat in summer and warm moist air generated by the house in winter.
Underside of roof name.
Square one hundred square feet of roof.
The space under the roof.
Generally any underside of overhanging roof parts which are clad are referred to as soffits.
An intake vent in the soffit area of the house that provides attic venting at a lower portion of the roof deck and good circulation with other forms of venting such as ridge or roof vents.
But when the soffit is under the lower portion of the roof the eave course of tiles this part of the roof is the eaves.
The underside of the eaves or roof overhang which can be enclosed or exposed.
From the italian soffitta for under and figgere to fix the word soffit dates back to the days of early palladian architecture.
Step flashing flashing that is laid in strips under each shingle and bent up the edge of a chimney or wall.
Also known as a fascia.
Also called an intake vent.
A little more trivia.
The fascia is a linear vertical piece that covers the framing between the top of the roof and the soffit underside area of rake or eave overhangs.
A soffit is the horizontal underside of a roof overhang an archway a staircase a ceiling or a similar architectural component.
Soffit the area that encloses the underside of that portion of the roof that extends out beyond the sidewalls of the house.
All the boards running along the edge of the roof or eaves.
So the soffit is then referred to as the undereaves.