While flat soffits work well in some situations in most they result in pork chop eave returns.
Roof soffit designs.
This keeps those wild critters from entering into ventilation holes pictured above or trying to make a home in the nooks and crannies of an overhang.
The default in eave design is a flat soffit.
Soffit not pictured above is found on the underside of eaves intended to fill the visible gap between eave joints.
The soffit is the flat panel that covers the underside of the rafters between the back of the fascia and the outside of the house wall.
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Both parts provide a finished look and keep bugs and critters out of your attic while soffits also play an important role in ventilating the attic.
Incidentally in both designs when wind is blowing towards the walls of the house where there is roof overhang airflow increases inwards at that soffit.
Soffits and fascia provide the roof with a finished look.
I speculate that an angled soffit of the same square feet in area will catch and move more air up under the roof space than a horizontal soffit of the same square foot area for the same wind.
Closed eaves with flat soffit and raised heel.
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Asia has been in the roof design and building business for longer.
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