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How can you ventilate a cathedral ceiling without airtight drywall

MikeonLI | Posted in General Questions on

Homeowner in Long Island. Existing house built 1983 has soffit to ridge ventilation for the cathedral ceiling. However there are no gaskets or caulking sealing the drywall to the framing. If air gets in the soffit and under the roof deck, nothing is preventing the air from getting in between the drywall and the framing and going down the wall into the living area. Sealing everything  from the inside  doesn’t seem like an efficient approach. Any reasonable fixes to this problem?

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