How To Install Soffit And Fascia

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 [Applause] 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 and facia and we have lots of other videos on our youtube channel or you can check our website at house improvements comm and see what else we have on there to help

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Keywords: soffit, fascia, eaves, eavestrough, gutters, howto, installation, improve, house, home, improvement, diy

Id: Ez2-Cmr-Nos

Length: 14min 26sec (866 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 25 2011