sheathing the walls,
roof trusses,
sheathing the roof and
soffit and facia are before
house-siding
house-siding covers several items including: * roof cover (shingles) * vinyl siding * soffit and facia but before you can side the house, you need
Click HERE for sheathing the walls
Click HERE for Roof Trusses
Click HERE for sheathing the roof
Soffit and Facia That's this page!
Facia is the 3 inch edge up at the top next to the roof that faces you. It's the part you see. Soffit is the part of the overhang that is up underneath the overhang.
This picture shows the shingles completed and the white facia in the process of building our house. Vinyl siding provides an easy way to maintain that most difficult part of the house. The soffit and facia requirer a ladder to paint, so vinyl or pre-painted aluminum or other metal eliminate the need for paint. On other houses that we've owned, I've seen RL struggle to keep up with the painting of the facia. It would peel from exposure to the elements and require maintenance every year or two.
With vinyl soffit and facia, all that effort to keep up with mother nature's effect on the house is not necessary. The only thing that might happen is in the event of high wind, some of the vinyl pieces may blow off if they are not put on properly. Also, if cheap materials are used, they may blow off in high winds. We recently experienced some vicious winds that did a lot of damage to many homes around our area. In some cases, entire sides of vinyl siding blew off of houses. Others lost shingles and facia. Our house's siding, shingles, soffit & facia were all put on by the same contractor and we breathed a sigh of relief when we realized we lost nothing in the wind. It told the truth about our sub that we hired. He was good, and knew his business. We'll use him again on our next two houses.
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