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Yes. The Taunton framing book is very clear on this point, showing that are basically three solutions to the soffit return problem: the porkchop, Greek return, and the simplest solution with the soffit parallel to the rafter ends. The book also points out that the steeper the pitch the bigger the porkchop required. Once I read this, I began to notice it everywhere. Doesn't look good.
Why.....you got another name for it?
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
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OK.....new one round these parts.....but we`ll play.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
I love porkchops, cook in the crock pot with cream of celery soup and those little red potatos
I've never heard anything called a pork chop that wasn't made from a pig. Any chance one of you could come up with a pic for us rednecks?
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
I think there might be a detail called the Porterhouse too.
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>>I love porkchops, cook in the crock pot with cream of celery soup and those little red potatosYou're getting me hungry. Maybe they have a dish over at Cooks Talk called Soffit Stew.
Porkchops always split off from the verge radter they are attachjed to, and look poorly. A FANTASTIC detail one overly-compulsive builder I knew in Oregon used was to create the equivalent of the porkhop JUST behind the verge rafter,using the same 1/2" rough-sawn cedar soffit ply he used for the soffits. There would be a short vertical piece of this material spanning between the soffit-ply porkchop and the building facade, which he actually mitered with the porkchop. I thought it was awkward at first, but the more I saw it the more I thought it was a really crisp, long-lasting detail.
Andrew