I have a Cape Cod style house with 2 shed dormers. Where the soffit and facsia boards meet with the roof there is a gap . Birds and other animals have built nests > How do I repair this so they will not come back?
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There should be 'some' gap there so that your wood trim isn't resting on the wet roofing and rotting away. How big is the gap you have? It should be around 3/4". If it's larger than that you can either replace the trim boards or maybe get some sort of screening in there.
We tuck a fold of copper up in there.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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I run the I&W all up in there myself, before I even put the trim up. That's why roofers love me. :)View Image
Of all the contractors we roof for 2 have a decent idea of how to do the cornice work, thats not good.
We would love you.
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" I am not an Activist, I am, a Catalyst. I lay around and do nothing, until another ingredient is added"
And I'd even boom all the shingles up to the roof for ya. :)View Image
LOL.
I don't do shingles tho' only Copper and wood.
We have 5 latinos that are faster than any boom. I swear, these guys are nuts for it, they RACE.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
" I am not an Activist, I am, a Catalyst. I lay around and do nothing, until another ingredient is added"
I and I means what? I am a beginner at the trim work.
I and W...
Ice and water shield, Capt.
The screening idea was my forst choice but the birds destroyed it. It was originally installed on the dormers but they moved in the the 2 north facing dormers first and have progressed into the south facing dormer. The gap is actually the soffit about 6 inches from the shingles to the underside.
Yes, I&W is ice and water sheild.... peel and stick roofing underlayment.
And if the screens don't work and your "gap" is 6".... the soffit should be rebuilt or at least somehow added onto IMO. 6" in a soffit isn't a gap....it's an unfinished soffit!View Image
If you don't rebuild it w/o the gap, and the birds got past screen, try hardware cloth. Very heavy gauge wire, it'd take a heck of a bird........
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What's hardware cloth Cal? Like a heavy guage screen or something?View Image
Brian. Here hardware cloth is a heavy (bigger than tie wire, maybe twice) "screen". What I can easily get is 1/4'', but it is graded according to size of opening. You could use it to sift if you sized the opening properly. All galv, some was copper, it forms pretty nice, sharp on the cut edges. I good stuff is "soldered" at the cross over's. Or maybe the galv. blobs up there, holding them in place.
Used to find it at old style harwares. Now? we still have a couple here.
You can use it as a butt guard on a wood screen.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Coolio.View Image
especially around kids and dogs
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While you're in the neighborhood. Would you know of any metal butt guards that look good.
Ok, how about just metal butt guards that the homowner might think look good. House is from the thirties-round top screen.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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"any metal butt guards that look good."U going Gothic now?We just relace some screens every summer. It's a pain but opens up the "While we're here..." opportunities.
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What's your butt need protecting from?View Image
not my butt, a customers.
And of course there's the kids and the dogs.
A kid-butt-dog guard to be exact.
Dispite my dozing, good game.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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