Roof Vent Recommendations | NOLA Area

What do you have currently? Ridge vents?

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Yes, have ridge vents.

Reading another thread, I realized that I do not have soffit ventilation (just gutters) down the side so I may not be getting any air movement under the soffit and through the ridge vent.

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No matter what kind of roof vents you get for the roof, you will need soffit vents installed, unless there is another way to get airflow into the attic. So a solution is to buy a bunch of soffit vents, cut holes in the soffit all around your house and install the vents. You could hire the work or do it yourself if it's not too high and within your capability.

At my last house my soffits were very high. I wanted more soffit vents and I just paid to get them installed. I had additional rectangular vents installed. The contractor made a template for the correct hole size, would draw the holes with a pencil and then plunge cut the holes with a small battery operated circular saw. They also make round soffit vents if you prefer those. Those might require drilling like a 1/2" pilot hole on the edge of each of each proposed round vent hole and then using a jig saw to cut the right size vent hole.

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Is Garcia reputable for this? I saw where some people had issues with them.

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Others will have to respond on Garcia. Our last house was in Marietta GA and our current house is in North Alabama. I think I got a siding/painting company to install the soffit vents, and they were already doing other work for me so this was an add on job, while they had their ladders out. I think I had them replace some rotten soffit and fascia boards at the same time.

One good way to find reviews on Garcia or any other contractor is to pull up your address in Google Maps, and then search for whatever type of contractor you are looking for (roofers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, siding companies, painters, gutters, etc.). You may have to expand the map to a larger area and re-do the search to pull up more contractors of the type you are searching for until you find a highly rated contractor with a lot of reviews. You can also type in a specific contractor/company name in the search box. I have found Google Maps to have more reviews than other review sites.

Companies that replace siding and/or painters should be good candidates that do this type of work. Seems like every time I had our house painted, I had to get some exterior wood replaced that was rotten (including soffit boards that required the vents to be re-installed).

I have found some really good local contractors by using Google Maps and then reading/comparing the reviews. We've only been here 1 year so we didn't know any contractors at all. Our current house is a fixer upper so we needed/still need to hire a variety of contractors. I have already found a really good plumber, HVAC company, Tree Cutters and appliance repair company using Google Maps. As a more specific example, we recently had a bad hail storm recently, and I needed a reputable roofer to come take a look. So I recently found a really good roofer (one with 85 mostly 5 star reviews in Google Maps). They easily had the best feedback in our city. I am still working with them now with the insurance company claim but I am very impressed so far.

If you find a highly rated contractor with a lot of reviews, you can call them and ask them if they can install soffit vents and stop by and provide a free estimate.

Also we use Google Maps to find and check out ratings on Auto Repair, Restaurants, Dentists, Antique Stores etc. I still ask around who others recommend, but I put a lot of faith in Google Maps reviews.