Replace the plywood with textured soffit board?

 

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

 

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

I have to have at least 15 posts to do anything apparently...

go to lpcorp.com and search "smartside soffit"

Sorry, I'd throw you a link but am not allowed to.

 

Use T chanel instead of j chanel.

 

H-channel

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.

 

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)

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

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.

 

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.

Ick, I know what you mean, I was doin good till the started chaning things around on me. We get the economy soffit, "snow" and "snow J" and white coil. Seems ok. We just finished a white house today. tommorow we will be wiping all the finger prints off

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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!

 

Nice..it will be alot less obtrusive.

 

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.

 

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.

 

I also do this one too gives even more character

 

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.

 

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.

I agree. I can normally get it come out looking good but lately I just order some aluminum j-channel and screw it together using 1/2" hex screws. It looks better and you can split the seems etc.

I did a porch a couple weeks ago that was an older restaurant patio on a golf course. It was 48x48 and had all kinds of lights and sprinkler heads etc to cut around. Paid great though because I only had to cut the lengths of the final row of beaded panel.

 

Economy Soffit

Heads up on using grey back economy soffit. We have had 3 Alcoa jobs warp out under patios. The new unpublished installation for this product requires a nailer every 12 inches instead of 16. If your not specifying exactly what soffit you want you may be getting economy and paying for premium. This was the case of these 3 jobs sent out from Lansing Building Products last year.

 

Heads up on using grey back economy soffit. We have had 3 Alcoa jobs warp out under patios. The new unpublished installation for this product requires a nailer every 12 inches instead of 16. If your not specifying exactly what soffit you want you may be getting economy and paying for premium. This was the case of these 3 jobs sent out from Lansing Building Products last year.

Oh YUP! No Doubt!!! I didnt specify. We ONLY use economy soffit on regular soffits 8-20 inches, and thats it. We use 2" beaded on porches and patios. The one thing thats always made me nervous about economy soffit is that its painted not solid vinyl.

 

We started using Ventura Hidden vent soffit two years ago and now that all we use.

 

I started running my furring strips on 12" a couple years ago. The weath goes from 0 to 100 here and It was giving me problems bubbling up.

I think you should always run 12" centers...

 

soffit

use a 8" Pro-Bead panel from Mastic with a T-Channel and around the outside a J-Channel.

 

nothing looks worse than vinyl soffit j

 

Or a Post from 2008 :whistling