(laid back music) - Welcome to countrylifeprojects.com. I'm Henry Reinders. This is video nine of 15
videos in our shed project. In this video I'm going to
be showing you how to build and install the ladders
for our soffit overhang. It's also known as a rake. It's very easy to do and let's get started
with the layout next. Okay, we finished our smart side panels, both front and back of the shed. We've also installed on
the back of the shed, as you can see by the inset, the ladders for gable end overhangs. I'm gonna now show you
how to do the ladders on the front here. And I also want to point
out before we get started that we put blocking here on our soffit and our side soffit, on this side here. That is actually going to hold our ladders while we put them into place
and screw them into place. That's really handy if
you're working on your own. Even if you're not, it's nice for lining them up. Now the first thing to do when
you're starting your ladders is you want to get a
measurement to the peak of your roof. So you measure from your
sub-fascia two by four down here right to the very peak
of your tress rafter. Do that for both sides. They should be the same. If not, take the measurements separately and make a note of which
size is left, which is right. But if they're the same you
don't have to worry about it. So I've already cut two
pieces to fit in here, and I'm going to show
you why it's important to check these before you
actually assemble your ladders. So we're going to put this one in first because I have my bracing
here for the trusses. I can easily clamp that in place
while I grab the other one. I'm making sure that it's butted tight to the sub-fascia board. And grab the other one for the other side. Make sure it's tight at
the bottom there too. I put these together. And, if these are in line
and in line with the peak, then your sizing is okay. You can make the outside
rafter for both of these, for your ladders. And now that we know these are okay, I gotta come down. I'm gonna show you how to mark these out. If we're marking off our ladders, and you'll see why they call
them ladders in a minute, you need one on the end here, which is the blocking we have cut here. These are eight inches long. Combined, our overhang is 11 inches. That's important because that'll
save you money on material because you'll be able to
use exact sizing on lumber. So overall, it should be 11 inches. Now we're going to be
doing 16 inch centers. It's not really critical. There's nothing that we're
going to be nailing into that that has to match up, but it just works out quite
well for our blocking. So your gonna need five
eight inch blocks total for each ladder. I'm gonna mark these across in a second but I want to show you something here. At the peak, where you have
your 30 degree angle here, you want this block here to
start right at this edge, so that when your ladders are
assembled you have backing on both sides of your peak. Once we have them installed, I'll just point that out again so you see exactly what I'm talking about. So I'll finish marking these off. I'm gonna screw these together. And once we have that done, I'll show you how we install them. It's really easy. (screwdriver grinds) Okay, that's both of our ladders done. Obviously, you can see why
they call them ladders. We're gonna get those installed next. It's very simple. And I'll do that right now. Okay, remember we got
blocking on our sub-fascia. So we just have to drop
our ladder in there. Gonna clap this side. Hang on. Got it backwards. There we go. That wouldn't work too well. Gonna clamp this in place temporarily, while we grab the other one. Do the same thing with that one. Once these two are together, you can see I don't have to
worry about that one falling. Now, what you wanna do is
make sure they're lined up. You can take the clamp
off of this one now. Like I said, they're not
going to go anywhere. Just going to drop that down there. Just have a look on the top. Make sure they're lined up. Once you know they're lined up, then you can start screwing
them through the two by four into the rafter behind it. Do that from top or bottom. (screwdriver grinds) Just one screw about every 16 inches should be more than enough
on the top and then the same thing on the bottom. (screwdriver grinds) And I'm gonna line these up and screw this ladder to that ladder through the top before I
finalize the screwing in of that one there. (screwdriver grinds) So make sure this is nice and flush. That'll be important when
we do our fascia boards. (screwdriver grinds) Now that I have that screwed together, I can screw it to the wall. (screwdriver grinds) And I'm gonna carry through, finish screwing off both these ladders. Once we're done with that, I can screw it to the
sub-fascia on both ends. When that is done we can
just trim off the sub-fascia. Our ladders are done, and from there, we can start putting the
sheathing on our roof. Okay we finished off our ladders. One thing I wanted to mention
with this system here, you don't really want to go
more than 16 inches overhang with this system. Beyond that, tendency
will be in the future, this might start to sag a little bit. Up to 16 inches you're okay, especially if you use half
inch sheathing for your roof, which we are on this shed. Now we went 11 inches and
there's a reason for that. Our shed is nine feet, nine inches long. And with this overhang, with 22 inches, eleven inches on either end, we have eleven feet, eight inches. Now when you start doing
your fascia material, you can buy 12 footers, and you'll be able to miter the ends, and you won't have to lose
much in the way of material. If we had built the shed ten feet, made these 12 inch overhangs, then you would end up
having to buy 14 foot lengths of material. The same applies to the
trims we're going to use on the top and bottom of
the shed on the walls, as well as in the width, we have seven feet, nine inches. The reason for that is the same. So we are, so that'll just
help you save a lot of money. So we are done with our framing. In the next video, I'll show you how to do the sheathing. We're using half inch. And there are some spacing
requirements and so on, and we'll go over those in the next video.
