Green Bay Decking Fascia Installation

hey folks my name is Gary daley and I am America's deck builder we're here at a lumberyard in Simpsonville South Carolina where I want to show you a bit about Green Bay deckings facial board this can be used with any of Green Bay deckings decking products we're going to talk about installation I'm going to throw a couple of pieces on and there are a couple different ways we can install this the basic installation requirements are that we get three screws every 12 inches unless we're ripping this to 6 inches or less and then we only need two screws every 12 inches you can see that I've prepped these boards with screws so I can use one screw to hold it while I'm securing it with another on this outside corner I have a 45 here and I've cut the other piece to a 45 I want to bring those tight together also I can make trim pieces to cover if they don't fit real tight on an inside corner we don't need to cut 45s like that because as I bring these two pieces one over the other it creates the illusion of a 45 okay when we're installing the fascia we want to use a one and a half inch trim head screw and just like with the duck's back and I'd AK decking products we want to make sure that the screw doesn't have a reverse thread up here it needs to have a clean shaft otherwise it's going to clean too big of a hole and that head isn't going to grab so let's go ahead and put this first board on now I want to feel in here on and make sure the inside of this cut is just past the corner so I can get a nice tight seam there and then while I've got it held here now that it's held in place I just want to check this that's just where I want it to be so now I'm going to come around the other side and bring the other board in and what I want to do when I when I put together a seam real tight like this so I want to start my screws at the seam and work my way over work my way back that way to avoid any buckling I don't want to start at one end do the other end and then come in and do the middle start at one end and work my way over okay I've installed my first piece of fascia I've driven the screws three every 12 inches and then I tapped the heads with a hammer just to close the seams it to close the screw holes I'll show you a little bit more on this one as we install it follow along okay I've installed the two pieces of fascia tied on the corner as tight as I could get it and as you can see is a little bit of imperfection here I'm using an existing structure in a lumberyard so it's not my work it's not perfect in order to bring this into acceptable standards I can just hit this with a belt sander and if I do it in the direction of the grain it's going to look continuous it's going to look real nice when I'm finished our next piece is an inside corner and the one thing they don't want to do is lock this in we don't want to lock in an inside corner for fear of it buckling later we need to leave a little bit of space for expansion and so I want to bring this board up and leave perhaps a quarter inch 3/16 of an inch here but I don't want to see that wood back there so what I typically do and I don't have any with me so I'll just tell you so I take a little wood stain stain that wood back there pull this up into place and if you use a dark enough stain anything as dark as or darker than the the fascia that we're using you're not going to see that wood you're not even going to know there's a gap there so since we're not locked in on the outside corner I can start at any point on the board and work in two directions as long as I don't screw the center and then the outside and then come in if I start here I can work out and then out that way or I can start at one end and work across I just don't want to trap a buckle in there okay so to finish this fascia project I've created a couple optional trim pieces and these are just a sample of what you can create on your own this one I call the bridge and this one yep the corner the bridge is going to bridge the gap on a butt joint like this where we don't want to bring those boards tight up against each other because we have to allow for variations in expansion and contraction with variations in temperature so I've created a bridge just cut it out of an old piece of tongue and groove I put big hunky screws in here so that I can be sure that my fasteners aren't going into the trim board but are going in the gap you can use stainless finish screws or the fastener of your choice the bottom line is we don't want to attach this to this we want to make sure that our fasteners go in into the wood another option for the butt joint would be as I explained in the inside corner you could take some dark wood stain and stain that wood back there leave the gap and it's almost unnoticeable if you get the right color stain over here on the corner we're going to take our corner trim put it on here attach it with a couple stainless trim nails happy day okay now that we've established how to install fascia under a perimeter strip we're going to look at another option we like the fascia under the perimeter strip because it allows water to roll out over rather than any possibility of anything getting trapped here in but if you're going to do it this way here's how so we've cut our pieces to length and you can see I've started some screws we want you to use screws on the fascia because finish nails just aren't going to give us that holding power the resistance to withdrawal that we need so finish screws are the way to go I've got this piece just a hair short of the corner and I've got a screw here to hold it we're going to bring it up so that it's flush with the top and you can see that we've cut this for this perimeter flush with our rim joist adjust my height and lock it in over here now just like with the under perimeter fascia we still want to lock it in from one end to the other we never want to go lock the ends in and then screw in the middle so I always want to start at one end and work toward the other end with our screws that'll decrease the possibility of any buckling later okay I've cut my 45 I've installed this piece of fascia I've got a 45 on the other side I'm going to pull it up and put it in place and because it's screaming hot here in Greenville today I'm going to pull this type because they don't have any concerns about expanding anymore however as I install this I have to think about down the road when it gets cooler this stuff is going to contract and this gap is going to open up a little bit so it might not be a bad idea to hit this back here with a little bit of wood stain so if it does get exposed it's not jumping out in your face so again if this doesn't fit real tight I can come back with a belt sander just a little of 120 and bring this down and it will look real nice oK we've installed our outside corner now I want to talk a bit about the inside corner we don't have to cut these out of 45 because we've got one overlap in the other and it gives us the appearance of a 45 but I do want to talk also about screw placement fastener placing with any fascia board when you're installing it up against the end of our deck board cuts like this there's the potential for debris the leaves and seeds and other stuff to get down in there absorb moisture freeze and push the board out so we want to make sure we get our fasteners as close to the top as possible to eliminate that possibility or at least to decrease it so I'm going to go ahead and place this board now because it's really hot where we're working again I don't need to introduce a gap there as the temperatures decrease this stuff is going to contract a bit the boards will pull back a little bit the possibility is there so before I go ahead and screw this in typically I would just put a little bit of dark wood stand back there so I'm going to go ahead bring this corner in tight and secure it oK we've got all our boards put in place to finish this off I just want to brush the waste off the top of the screws here I'm gonna take a hammer hit it nice and flat and we've got a nice finish okay so in this segment we've covered fascia installation underneath the perimeter strip fascia installation without a perimeter strip and an either way you do it if you do it right you're going to end up with a nice finished product in Simpsonville South Carolina I'm Gary Dailey and I am America's deck builder you

Channel: DuxxBak Composite Decking

Views: 163,747

Rating: 4.5433788 out of 5

Keywords:

Id: R7Oiw4gZ3sA

Length: 9min 59sec (599 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 01 2016