I love how months ago I'm watching your dumpster videos because I considered starting that up. Ditched the idea for several reasons. Meanwhile hurricane Ian comes through and tears my siding/facia apart so now I'm trying to do that myself lol Thank you for the videos
Bend the return out of one piece of coil stock and you don’t have to face nail it. The tab that goes around to the facia board gets nailed and covered with the facia metal. The back part that meets the soffit gets a back bend against the wall and nailed which gets covered with siding and J.
Hidden fasteners look 100x better. He could have used a receiver for the birdbox, too. You can hide the nail under the receiver tab. His cutoff should have left 1/2" to hook into the receiver. I didn't see d-metal running up under his fascia so he probably isn't hooking on his fascia. Bonus if his rake correctly tucks then ties into the fascia.. (And he's worried about wind on his soffit but not fascia??) You then only need one visible nail line down low on the rake, allowing the face to float to avoid oil canning, to finish off a bulletproof corner that looks smooth top to bottom.
you can do that i leave a very small portion of the bend in tact when i cut it with snips this keeps it slightly more ridged and helps keep it from getting wavy
And face nails. Mangled his corner, too. He's never learned how sinple it is to turn tabs into receivers, where you hide fasteners. And that slamming nails into the soffit, when you can run a-points into the hidden receiver tabs leaving no visible fasteners. So much hack work.
On that inside return fold a tab 1” tab up on an Angle 📐 to give more strength to it and a place to nail up into the soffit . I like to use my 6” square and fold those corners instead of hands it makes a cleaner corner . You can use your razor blade run the knife 🔪 along the inside corner then just snap it off no need to cut it with snips for that gable facia . Hope I’m not coming over like an ass ha ha 🤦♂️ .
if it is warped or rotten we replace it. when covering it with aluminum you can get away with alot. really you just need nails to hold and it to be straight
@@Lifes_Apprentice thank you. I have no experience in this but hoping to try it. We have a small cape cod style house 1300 Sq ft. I need all the help I could get.
It's best to bend your whole box return out of a full piece of stock and cut it out so that when you make the turn the metal extends vertically to the drip edge then you don't have to run the gable fascia down to the eave
@@RobertSmith-fx7oe He's probably doing track homes where they get paid by piecemeal. Inspectors look to see if bare wood is covered and have no gag reflex. If a customer wants what you say its better bid with plenty of padding or as time and material. Those track homes would eat him for lunch doing that. He needs a fast process. But if he's doing this for an actual homeowner, oof.
Don't you guys know how to bend a hem. Give it a ham on the bottom of their on that where it hits the soffit you really like the results you get it looks a stiffer and full body looks like it's meatier you guys with your own edges and you just don't know what you're doing
You used a pencil on unprotected aluminum!? That's so wrong, nobody told you what that does over time. The pencil is going to each through the aluminum. It's wise not to use pencil even on painted aluminum because paint layers are so thin the ions still transfer through to the metal. Glad that's not my fascia work.
I like when people come and say stuff like that with zero videos on their channel about anything. You also give no reason for why!? If I am a beginner and you know better why are you watching How To videos on youtube?
i cant turn up the volume when i edit with my software i dont think... i have a new camera with a microphone but didnt use it for this video unfortunately
Good stuff man. I did this work like 15 years ago and needed a refresher course. Well done!
I love how months ago I'm watching your dumpster videos because I considered starting that up. Ditched the idea for several reasons. Meanwhile hurricane Ian comes through and tears my siding/facia apart so now I'm trying to do that myself lol
Thank you for the videos
Thats Awesome! Not the Hurricane but I am glad I helped! I have a few videos about soffit and fascia! If you have questions I am here to help
Thanks for sharing. I always learn something. Look forward to more videos.
Thanks for watching!
Bend the return out of one piece of coil stock and you don’t have to face nail it. The tab that goes around to the facia board gets nailed and covered with the facia metal. The back part that meets the soffit gets a back bend against the wall and nailed which gets covered with siding and J.
Hidden fasteners look 100x better. He could have used a receiver for the birdbox, too. You can hide the nail under the receiver tab. His cutoff should have left 1/2" to hook into the receiver. I didn't see d-metal running up under his fascia so he probably isn't hooking on his fascia. Bonus if his rake correctly tucks then ties into the fascia.. (And he's worried about wind on his soffit but not fascia??) You then only need one visible nail line down low on the rake, allowing the face to float to avoid oil canning, to finish off a bulletproof corner that looks smooth top to bottom.
Just the video I needed to watch
No need to face nail box ends if you use a hem piece, fascia will slip inside
Really nice job thanks for sharing
your welcome
Excellent
nice job
Thank you, this helped me out a lot
very happy to help
At 10:40 just use your utility knife. Way easier.
How come u don't score it with your utility knife to get a crisp bend line??
you can do that i leave a very small portion of the bend in tact when i cut it with snips this keeps it slightly more ridged and helps keep it from getting wavy
@@Lifes_Apprentice oh ok..
I'm really surprised how many people think that looks good when I saw that first bend with your hands rounded and not crisp eh
And face nails. Mangled his corner, too. He's never learned how sinple it is to turn tabs into receivers, where you hide fasteners. And that slamming nails into the soffit, when you can run a-points into the hidden receiver tabs leaving no visible fasteners. So much hack work.
Good stuff bro.
thank you
On that inside return fold a tab 1” tab up on an Angle 📐 to give more strength to it and a place to nail up into the soffit . I like to use my 6” square and fold those corners instead of hands it makes a cleaner corner . You can use your razor blade run the knife 🔪 along the inside corner then just snap it off no need to cut it with snips for that gable facia . Hope I’m not coming over like an ass ha ha 🤦♂️ .
i have seen it done those ways before. there is definitely more ways to do it than i showed. love the feedback as always!!!
Same here.amateurs 101 😂
We use the brake to bend ours. It takes a little longer.
Nice work. At what point should you replace the actual wood fascia board?
if it is warped or rotten we replace it. when covering it with aluminum you can get away with alot. really you just need nails to hold and it to be straight
@@Lifes_Apprentice thank you. I have no experience in this but hoping to try it. We have a small cape cod style house 1300 Sq ft. I need all the help I could get.
What’s your thoughts on putting like a hem or just some sort of stiffener(i don’t know what to call it ) on gable trim to keep it from buckling?
that is one way to do it i find the hem to work but is hard to flatten without some dents or dings
It's best to bend your whole box return out of a full piece of stock and cut it out so that when you make the turn the metal extends vertically to the drip edge then you don't have to run the gable fascia down to the eave
@@RobertSmith-fx7oe He's probably doing track homes where they get paid by piecemeal. Inspectors look to see if bare wood is covered and have no gag reflex. If a customer wants what you say its better bid with plenty of padding or as time and material. Those track homes would eat him for lunch doing that. He needs a fast process. But if he's doing this for an actual homeowner, oof.
U aren’t bad but u should always use a square when bending flaps!!!!!
Don't you guys know how to bend a hem. Give it a ham on the bottom of their on that where it hits the soffit you really like the results you get it looks a stiffer and full body looks like it's meatier you guys with your own edges and you just don't know what you're doing
So close yet so far from the best way to fascia.
I love installing steel facia instead of aluminum, less oil canning... but for custom wrap jobs buying aluminum coil stock is the way to go.
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That thumb nail tho
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Wrap the rake trim first around
You used a pencil on unprotected aluminum!? That's so wrong, nobody told you what that does over time. The pencil is going to each through the aluminum. It's wise not to use pencil even on painted aluminum because paint layers are so thin the ions still transfer through to the metal. Glad that's not my fascia work.
Beginner
I like when people come and say stuff like that with zero videos on their channel about anything. You also give no reason for why!? If I am a beginner and you know better why are you watching How To videos on youtube?
Try using some headphones with your computer to edit the sound your sound is way too low
i cant turn up the volume when i edit with my software i dont think... i have a new camera with a microphone but didnt use it for this video unfortunately