Board Under Roof Overhang

Remove the gutters and roof flashing if needed.

Board under roof overhang. Also known as a fascia. Builders love plywood for its water resistance structural stability and low cost. Add an inch and a half for subfascia strike a line. A soffit is the horizontal underside of a roof overhang an archway a staircase a ceiling or a similar architectural component.

Under the quebec construction code certain kinds of particleboard are also authorized. From the italian soffitta for under and figgere to fix the word soffit dates back to the days of early palladian architecture. Adding an overhang to the gable ends of your shed is a similar process to framing out a new one. Took the opportunity to get rid of an unnecessary chimney and upgrade the skylights.

Type of plywood used on roofing. They also love oriented strand board though. Add the thickness of the true fascia 15 16 in in this case. It costs even less and is.

Usually made from 1 2 inch plywood the decking closes and reinforces the roof structure and provides a nailbed for the shingles. The gable end fascia is the trim board attached to the roof edges extending from ridge to lower roof edge and where a rake overhang is present covering the outermost rake rafter or barge rafter. You ll need to build gable ladders also called soffit ladders. Unscrew the gutters at the brackets then pull out the nails holding them in place and lower them down safely.

The fully adhered membrane over the top surface of the upper layer of plywood directly under the roof shingles is for water control. If you plan on adding a gable overhang or rake in addition to eaves make sure you extend the fascia board beyond the last rafter to support the new rake. Measure from the edge of the plywood outside of the wall over to whatever the overhang will be and square a line up to indicate the end of the truss tail. Do the same for flashing where it overlaps the edges of the overhang.

Roof repairs typically involve replacing damaged shingles and rusted flashing but the overhang of a roof is often the first area to succumb to rot peeling paint and other weather related problems. Roof edge or eaves edge all the boards running along the edge of the roof or eaves.