A soffit is a structural component of a building, typically made of 2×4 lumber. It can run along a room’s walls or be independent. Box-frames are typically built first at the appropriate dimensions and attached to the wall or joist. Lateral framing members are often installed every 12/16/24″ On-Center for additional support. A boxed soffit can be framed on the eave and gable end of a building.
In the final stages of framing a house, the exterior trim, particularly the eaves trim, must be installed before the roofing goes on. John Carroll explains the steps needed to create a solid overhang that protects the building and provides solid support.
Soffit panels should be installed at the base of the gable end, working up to the peak as far as full panels will fit. Slide panels into the channel and secure them using nails in panel grooves. Roof framing is the most important step in framing a building. Aluminum soffits are a good solution for wood soffits and fascias in poor shape, as it takes less time to bury them behind aluminum trim than to repair or scrape them. Proper soffit framing details, including alignment, ventilation, and secure edging, are essential for the soffit to be effective.
When transitioning a soffit at the peak of a gable, secure two J-channels back to back to receive an individual piece of soffit on each accessory.
📹 How To Build A Bird Box For Soffit On A House
In this video, you will learn how to build a bird box for soffit on a house. Building a gable return is not a hard task to do. Framing a …
📹 How to frame soffits for overhangs | Birdboxes
Finishing off Tyvek and boxing out soffits on a garage. Disclaimer: If you choose to imitate, duplicate or copy anything you may …
I’m late to finding this website, I wish I would have found it sooner. Probably a dumb question – What if the fascia board on my garage is at the same angle / pitch as the roof? Its complicating things for me a bit, trying to wrap my head around how all of this comes together. My garage is old, about 100 years old, not sure if that was the way to do things back then.
Awesome! On my house the “box end” is somewhat similar, but sort of “wraps around the corner” of the house and has its own little eyebrow roof with its own gutter. I am in the process of trying to frame that out as part of a repair, any particular recommendation or search terms I could use to help do it the right way?
My roof doesn’t have fascia board like yours did at start? I’m guessing just add a fascia board all the way across then follow the article instructions? Can fascia board be multiple pieces of wood because I don’t think I can get a single piece that’s long enough for the entire roof? Also, what size lumber should the fascia board be?
Guys will explain something to me, tell me what it’s called, why what goes where and how it interacts with each other and even the subsequent trades and future maintenance for the homeowner. But if they have a different name for it, hell even a different way of doing this given thing. I’m lost and confused until I see the end result and I say “oh it’s a thingamabob” instead of a “whatchamacallit” Lingo fucks me down way worse than the theory of any 3d objects.
I’ve always liked doing these because I like the location for a soffit light. I think it looks stupid if you put the soffit light at the end of the house with that gable soffit sticking out. Makes the light look like an afterthought or something. Anyway… I’ve always built them differently than this but I’m gonna do them this way the next time cause it’s only 2 pieces; nice job!
Bout right .. They are simple . Sometimes the sub fascia is lower than the gable fascia . In that case I just scribe the entire block on the diagonal and bingo . The returns that blow many minds are the hip return boxes, quoin returns . Found an ABC 123 see ya later way to assemble them in 5 minutes . I used to get a kick out of guys fumbling with them for 3 hours ..
What kind of wood do you use in building these Bird Boxes. I have to replace some around my house. The ones I have to replace look to be 1 inch thick cedar, which is non existent today, the house was built in 1980. What would you suggest. I plan on painting it, i made one side out of plywood already, not sure.
We called it a bird box because if birds could make a way inside them they would build their nest inside there. However unless the bird box was already there we didn’t do all that added work because we didn’t get paid to frame anything unless it was on the contract. We did use a 2×4 much like the longer 2x you used but our 2×4 would extend out to the fascia on the gable end. We used soffit website along the wall made a 90 degree turn at the end of the 2×4 and back to the fascia on the wall you would be putting soffit on we’d seal off the end with coil stock bent to the specs we needed but that would be done only after the gable soffit is also completed. Once our bird box metal end is finished we’d run the fascia over it coming off the gable end. Mission Complete. No runs, No drips, No errors!