How to Install Heat Vents in a Garden Shed

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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If your garden shed is not vented and it sits in the sun, you might find that temperatures inside the shed can get as high as 100 degrees in the summer time. You can reduce the temperatures inside your shed by keeping the door open, but if you do not want the door left open, you can accomplish the same goal by installing heat vents.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Power saw
Screwdriver

Step1

Buy four vents. The larger your shed is, the bigger vents you will want to purchase. You can find these at most home-supply stores, but you might want to call ahead because sometimes they need to be specially ordered. If you tell the home supply store the size of your shed, they can help you pick the appropriate vents.

Step2

Measure the vents that you purchased to ensure that you cut the holes to the appropriate size.

Step3

Use a power saw to cut one hole on each end of your shed just under the peak of the roof.

Step4

Install your vents into the holes you cut under your roof peak. These vents at the top of your shed will allow the heat which is usually trapped in your garden shed to escape because heat rises.

Step5

Cut one hole close to the floor on the same sides of the shed that you installed your peak vents.

Step6

Fit the holes with the remaining two vents. The vents near the floor will provide air circulation, allowing cooler air to come into your garden shed as the heat is leaving through your peak vents.

Tips & Warnings

You might want to consider purchasing vents that can be closed off in the winter.
For the vents close to the floor of your garden shed, it is a good idea to put some type of a barrier, like window screen behind the vents. This will keep small animals and insects from entering your shed through the vents.