J-channel inside and outside miters

okay folks so today I'm going to show you how to do inside and outside miters with our J channel J channel it gets its name because contractors aren't very creative and they're like are you it's kind of shaped like a J so that's why they call this a J channel oh really it's just a trim that your pieces go in there here's where you fasten it and it's just for trimming out all kinds of exterior applications whether it's soffit or vinyl or or anything but I'm going to show you how to how to mitre our J channel for inside miters and outside miters and let's say we're doing in inside miter that one's really the simplest you find where you want to cut it mark it across there and then really the important part to get a good straight inside mitre is you got to make sure that you cut the backside at the same place you cut the face so you can do that two ways you can either use your square and just transfer all the way across to this side which will probably get you the cleanest cleanest bet or you could pull this dimension across here front and back but on a miter - to make it real pretty we're gonna cut ninety degrees on the front in the back and on one side of the face we're gonna cut a 45 degree angle right there so just like that don't cut this cross here and then I'll just fold right like so see and there's a nice pretty cut looks like I didn't quite get it all the way across but that's that's basically your mitre it doesn't have to be done in one piece you could do it in two pieces let's say these were to break you would want to install this piece first and tuck your second piece right in there and you have the same the same result even though it's not done with one piece now so that's an inside mitre slightly more complicated but the outside mitre let's say this is a cutting two pieces and let's say we're trimming around something and we want our pieces you know if we just stop let's say we're trimming around the edge of a window if we just stopped at the edge of the window it would look like that we don't want that so we could run it past but it looks better if you run both of them past so what I'm going to do on this one is this back side here I'm going to notch it in and the width of our the face of our j-channel looks like we're three-quarters of an inch here so if we notch this 3/4 of an inch right across here and I'm gonna cut out a little more than 3/4 so that way it's out of my way right across there and then on this one here we're going to mark a 45 degree angle and once again in order to get a good clean cut we want to transfer a mark that's there and across here so now we're gonna cut a longer solid line in this little point right here he's gonna be on our way later on so I'm just gonna take a little bit off of that but now now that we've got this tab here we've got our other piece notched out we're actually gonna put the tab inside and just gonna lap right over it and see this tab will fold down in so you look inside there you can see the one I didn't cut very straight but anything anything that would get inside our channel is going to shed off that way so here I left remember I said I left just a little bit extra and I clip that off I like so and so that way when you're putting your piece in there see how pretty that miters gonna be so that's an outside miter and once again that doesn't matter if it's half-inch j-channel three-quarter inch j-channel whether it's inch and a half I mean anything that's shaped like a J that's how you can trim it out so you've got an outside corner say your jiaying around a door or around a window or you have an inside corner it's going to look like that

Channel: Nick Tilley

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Keywords: J-channel, Siding trim, Soffit trim, soffit j, siding j, J trim

Id: 963OYRSsWl0

Length: 5min 0sec (300 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 13 2020