Allow me to glean some thoughts from you all. I’m sure you are all familiar with those awful and ugly waves in fascia; especially when you bend your own. I do my best to keep the fascia straight and nail them out. I was working with someone the other day with about 30 years experience and he didn’t even care that his fascia was wavy.
What do you think and more importantly, how do you minimize or eliminate the problem.
Thanks.
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My own practice is to install 2X subfascia after the lookouts or rafter tails are trimmed to a fine line. If the fascia itself is like a 5/8" or 1" GP Primetrim (for example) and it shows any deviations, it takes only a little time to shim it out.
Crooked or wavy surfaces that aren't intended kind of drive me up the wall...as it does you, I gather.
bend it right..nail it right.
when ya mark it for the bend..remember to add about an 8th to make up for the loss when it's bent. Then...over bend it a bit.
Should stay up there by itself.
Now...nail ..using just enough nails to hold it there....and don't overdrive them.
And keep in mind the temp. It's gonna grow when it gets hotter..and shrink when it gets colder.....so fit it accordingly.
Like, Don't fit it tight as can be and nail off when it's 10 degree's......because it's gonna be twice as long the following summer and will wavy at ya as U drive by trying not to make eye contact.
I try like hell to avoid any and all nails thru the face.....best case is nails only on the bottom 3/4 edge. For face nails that gotta happen...an enlarged nail hole let's it grow and shrink a bit w/o puckering.
And....when 2 pieces are attached firmly...but an overlap is lifting.....a pop rivet is better than a nail. Let's them float...but keeps them looking tidy.
I hate wavy metal work.
Jeff
Buck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Fine Carpentery.....While U Waite
If it's in the line of sight, yeah, it has to have no noticible waves. Two stories up, well, that's differant, but your not exactly going to do s__t, are you? I used to run rafter long then cut them. That doesn't really make it any easier that just cutting them according to a pattern while there still on horses in front of you. An d a lot of comment's from roofers about solid meat to hang their gutters from prompted me to add a 2x subfascia, a must with framing 2'oc, espscially hips. So, to ansew your question, I just look down the soffit on a ladder, tell the dude helping me, " a little further, yeah, right there, shim it there , a little more, that's it."
Edited 4/10/2003 8:24:30 PM ET by panama red
Red,
Your technique sound similar to ours: After we get all the 2x subfascia and brick frieze up, we string both and "line" them by tapping little wedges in or beating the wood in or out, then cut the ends of the 2x's off.
dark colors really show waves the most......ugh..white shows it as well but when you nail it up.........
Tack it from the middle....did I say tack it?......
Depends on the framer.......Eyeball it down the line first and formost.....Stare at the lowest point down the line and.........figure it out from there. If you can't.......than get a different job.
Be : }
Namaste
andy
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