How to nail Up Soffit
How To Install Soffit And Fascia
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hiya Shannon here from the house
improvements comm and I'm just today
gonna show you a quick video on doing
installing aluminum soffit and facia so
today we're installing a three panel of
white fascia aluminum on this new
edition here and I'm gonna show you how
to level across get your J channel which
is the track against the house that
holds the soffit up how to get it all in
position screw it on we're gonna throw
in a few panels of soffit and then I'm
also gonna show you how to do the fascia
so soffit is the panel that goes
underneath your Eve of your house and
the fascia is the l-shaped panel that
goes you know along where your Eve
trough is on the on the vertical edge
okay so i've already got some of this
done but i'm gonna explain to you
exactly how i did it
we want to we want to determine a line
here for our soffit channel this Jade
channel here that I've already got it
out so really all you need to do is take
a level and you want to level a line
across from the bottom of your wooden
fascia over against the house okay so
mark that line and then
mark the same thing on both ends of the
house and snappa a straight line with
the chalk line and then you can run your
G channel to that line and screw it to
the hose and we simply do that by
inserting screws right into the channel
back into the wood of the house pretty
basic once you get up there and get it
done
once you have that determined you need
to determine the width of the soffit
panel because you'll need to cut that it
comes in a long sheet from the factory
so you need to cut an individual
in pieces or whatever size you
so I'm gonna but my tape measure Street
into the surface of the house measure
out to the front edge of the wooden
fascia and I'm gonna take a quarter inch
off that usually gets you the the right
distance gives you a little bit of play
so I've got a measurement of 11 and 3/4
there I'm gonna cut my panels to 11 and
a half and that should work you want
want to check your distance every 5 or 6
feet because sometimes the whole souza
fascia is in open you can cut a few
panels to that size anyways I've already
done that and like I said before the
panel comes in a long length usually
about 12 feet long so you need to cut
this into lengths and you can simply do
that by marking it and marking a lion's
square line with the square and then
just cutting with the skin snips it cuts
really easy I see people cut it with a
skill saw with their blade in backwards
I don't know if sometimes this metals
thinner and it dents up a bit I just
find it amusing
so I've got one Pete the first piece
meetup here covers in this little
triangular area that you're gonna have
wood inside it if you want
I like this simple looks with a soffit I
want to slide it into the G channel
just like so
making sure I'm staying Square to the
building I've got some marks line marked
out here that I already marked with my
square then you need a small cordless
drill and some small screws around 5e
and there's a there's a channel rate
here that goes rate tighten up to your
bottom of your wooden fascia that's
where you want to put your screw put
your screw in there like that and you've
got your first piece done now we're
gonna just take every subsequent piece
and they basically lock together there's
a tongue and groove type system here so
our next piece it simply goes into the
channel
like so slide it over your tongue roof
pieces of metal together you've got it
there I want to put a joint rate in the
seam where the two pieces overlap and
then I'm gonna skip every second one so
I'm gonna stick another one down here
you don't need a screw and every channel
is not necessary like so I'm I'm gonna
continue on as I go that way now not
being said while I'm right here I can
also start the piece that's gonna go up
on the slope here on the stable in I've
just got to get turned around here
same idea just fits right in the chain
Channel and as I said before the fascia
is the piece of trim goes over this
to make your home maintenance free so it
comes in 10-foot lengths and it comes in
two different heights actually three
different heights four six and eight
inch
so in this case we need the six inch and
it's a drip cap underneath our fascia
slides up underneath it so the facial
slide under there and then up to the
bottom so I'm going to go ahead and
slide this into position
just simply slides in like that it'll
generally kind of hold itself there for
the time being till you get a chance to
get some screws in it I just want to
make sure as well this edge here I'm
gonna fold around the corner so I've got
this put on there pushed up nice and
screws screwed up through the bottom
here but make sure you line yourself up
with these these ribs in the soffit
panel otherwise you kind of crush this
part if you get up there and if you keep
in your mind where you put the screws
before it's off the panel you don't keep
a pattern to it you'll know which one of
these ribs that you can safely put a
white-headed screw colored screw into
and not hit
so I should be able to start with one
screw right here and just snug it up it
doesn't don't over tighten it because
you'll just kink the heck out of all
this stuff and it'll be all wavy
indented so now you only need this screw
about every two to three feet is plenty
on here I'm gonna skip
there and I just can simply continue on
up the slope of the roof as I go now I'm
going to switch around to this other
side and prepare this and here too so
that I can apply the horizontal piece
just be a second doing that so before I
can apply this piece of fascia here I
just need to finish off this piece I
just installed that's coming down the
slope of the roof it hangs over the face
of here so I'm basically simply gonna
Bend this splashing the roofer put on
slightly up and then bend my fascia
piece around the corner
and it just kind of ends up giving a
nice capped area there so we don't have
any any wood showing at all when I went
to put this piece on we've got that up
there I'll bend that back down into
place and now I'm gonna slide the other
piece of fascia
first I guess before I do that I've got
got a notch this a little wee bit so if
you measure the width of your your
bottom edge in this case I've got inch
and a quarter you need to trim it here a
little there's kind of a lick on this
particular brand you need to trim it off
so that it fits nicely overtop of what
we just put on there
again you can just trim this simply with
some aviation slip snips
okay so I trimmed that little notch out
of there I don't know that you're going
to be able to see that but basically
just took this back flange off and this
fits just the same way it just slips
right up in behind that roofers trim
oh flush to the end of the piece you
already put on
like so
I always have your drill within arm's
league
okay so same as we did up the other edge
you want to go every two to three feet
with your series
hey so I've got that attached I'm just
coming back to this in sick one more
screw right here right on the corner
just like so and then usually if you're
gonna have each Rauf applied the you
trough is gonna cover most of the
surface here I will generally stick a
short shingle nail right here or a short
screw whichever it's not going to be
seen once the EEP trough is done it just
holds us back flat on the edge so you
don't get a an open end
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just like that it closes this edge up
and keeps everything nice and tight you
can if you want you can run a bead of
caulking down here generally with
caulking the wood it wants to attract
dust and dirt over time so in the case
of this being white eventually that
caulking won't be white anymore so it's
up to you whether you want to bother
with that that's why I like to wrap the
the end of this piece around the corner
it protects that wood a little more and
keeps if moisture does get in there it
isn't rotting the end over don't go
don't go putting a bunch of screws and
nails into this area it might look a
little floppy or wavy or whatever but
once the eave trough is on you're ready
to do siding or stuck this video soffit
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