Soffit

Alwaysconfusd11

I have an area approx 24 x 36 that I need to enclose. It is the underside of a canopy. Currently there is plywood nailed up and painted. I was think of using soffit, with 3 J-channel joints running so it would be 3 sections of 12' soffit. Any better ideas?

WhitlockConst

Replace the plywood with textured soffit board?

Alwaysconfusd11

Textured soffit board? Do you have a link or a manufacturer or something I can look at?

easy sider

Use T chanel instead of j chanel.

Vinyl Richie

i've never heard of t channel.... H channel looks great in this type of situation. i'd chalk a bunch of lines though, otherwise if the ceiling isn't dead on square your final reveal will not be even.

house bldr

It would be a lot more work but if you really want to set it off you could miter in from your corners(basically look like a flat hip roof)

easy sider

We call 3.5 inch and 5 inch double j chanel lineals T chanel for short. Two inch H bar is called H chanel for short.

Alwaysconfusd11

Im entertaining the idea of beaded vinyl..anyone ever use it?

Jake Stevens

I would use a 8" Pro-Bead panel with a 5/8 T-Channel and around the outside I would use a Pro-Bead J-Channel to dress it up. These are all Mastic.

Patrick

A real man, (such as myself) Would make the H channel on the brake, in one piece. I do it whenever I can, Its a pride thing, and I like to show off with the coil

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Originally Posted by Celtic
Like I said...I'm sure you are very good at what you do ~ whatever that is and where ever it happens.

Alwaysconfusd11

How would you do that..if you wouldnt mind explaining so us kiddies can follow along at home!

Patrick

Ill take a picture tomorrow. I gotta think every time i go to make one, but once i do the first one, i can bang them out real quick. I use them for soffit miters cause I can make them actually 5/8" and they don't look goofy because they lay nice and flat unlike a premade vinyl one. ALSO, if you are doing colored soffit they are a lifesaver, cause sometimes you cant easily get colored H channel, and when you can its usually special order

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Originally Posted by Celtic
Like I said...I'm sure you are very good at what you do ~ whatever that is and where ever it happens.

Alwaysconfusd11

Just an H shape, one side longer to put nails through with hems on the bottom side that recieves the soffit?

Patrick

YUP, looks just like the vinyl one but out of metal so its flatter. and the total thickness is 5/8" so it fits into the facia perfectly.

I drew you a picture of how I bend it. I want all you kids to make 5 a piece for homework. Make sure your hems are tight!

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Originally Posted by Celtic
Like I said...I'm sure you are very good at what you do ~ whatever that is and where ever it happens.

Alwaysconfusd11

Nice..it will be alot less obtrusive.

Patrick

Yea, you can even make the nice and wide, like a 2" pocket so a 4" face, then it looks like its meant to be there, rather than being there because vinyl only comes in short lengths.

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Originally Posted by Celtic
Like I said...I'm sure you are very good at what you do ~ whatever that is and where ever it happens.

Alwaysconfusd11

Exactly. I can make it match the perimeter also. It will give it some visual depth instead of just being needed, its now a detail.

Patrick

I also do this one too gives even more character

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Originally Posted by Celtic
Like I said...I'm sure you are very good at what you do ~ whatever that is and where ever it happens.

easy sider

These brake made trims are not for a novice and can only be made to be the length of the brake. If your not very experienced bending and hanging coil you could spend a lot of time wasting coil. In a situation where you need more than one piece the job made pieces are hard to butt together unless perfectly made.

Lineals come in lengths up to 20 ft. H bar in 12 ft lengths.

A 3 inch flat piece of coil cut the length of the soffit run and crimped for aluminum sill trim and with aluminum sill trim on the edges looks nice to cover a long soffit seam.

Jake Stevens

On returns runing soffits we made our own H channels all the time, but on a large ceiling you know the old saying. White, White and White are three different colors. Thats when we would use a T-Channel and J's to match the soffit we are using for the ceiling. On large H-Channels made with the coil the color wouldn't match like the T-Channel.