I'm fixing to get started on the vinyl siding on my building I have built. I am buying my siding from a local distributor and one of the guys they have working there used to be an installer. I've never done this stuff, so I'm pretty much going to go forward with whatever advice or instructions I am given. I have the PDF file that has the instructions (about 40 pages long) so I have a pretty good idea of the basics. I've been doing some studying, but I'm still not educated enough or experienced to understand the soffit enclosing teqniques.
My total costs will be about $600 in siding and trim pieces. I don't have the money to do buy it all at the moment, so yesterday I went and got what I could get for about $150. I'll buy the rest in the next few weeks as I get the money saved up.
He told me that I need to go ahead and do my corners, soffits and starter strips, to get them out of the way. So I bought enough starter strip to complete that, four corner pieces, all the vented soffit I will need, and some of the J-channel. I have not bought any of the siding panels yet.
Myself and the guy that used to be the installer were discussing how I am going to do my soffits. You can see here in this picture what I have. There are 1' overhangs all the way around.
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After looking at some of the different methods, and talking about it with him, he said an easy way to do it was to put a 2x nailing strip up against the building outside wall, and nail my soffit piece to that. Here is an illustration of what I'm talking about. The normal way would be on the left I suppose, and the way he is telling me to do it would be the one I drew on the right:
The 2x nailing piece is the square yellow box. The siding itself is indicated in green.
My question is, When does the 2x piece need to be added? I was thinking about this, and for some reason I feel like the 2x nailing strip should be nailed on top of the last piece of siding, so as to cover the gap that would be left exposed if it were added after the strip was attached.
I can't figure out that little intersection. Even if I nail the 2x strip to the wall first and run the siding up to it, the soffit piece will also be cut and run up (along the bottom of the 2x) to that corner where it will meet the wall. I know that cut will not be perfect, so what covers that???
He said the reason he used to use a 2x strip like this is because it is way cheaper than f-channel or J-channel, and works just as good. I just can't figure out why he told me to do my soffit pieces first if this strip must nail on top of the siding.
I'm sorry this is so long, I'm just trying to be sure I put enough info out there so you folks can understand me.
My total costs will be about $600 in siding and trim pieces. I don't have the money to do buy it all at the moment, so yesterday I went and got what I could get for about $150. I'll buy the rest in the next few weeks as I get the money saved up.
He told me that I need to go ahead and do my corners, soffits and starter strips, to get them out of the way. So I bought enough starter strip to complete that, four corner pieces, all the vented soffit I will need, and some of the J-channel. I have not bought any of the siding panels yet.
Myself and the guy that used to be the installer were discussing how I am going to do my soffits. You can see here in this picture what I have. There are 1' overhangs all the way around.
After looking at some of the different methods, and talking about it with him, he said an easy way to do it was to put a 2x nailing strip up against the building outside wall, and nail my soffit piece to that. Here is an illustration of what I'm talking about. The normal way would be on the left I suppose, and the way he is telling me to do it would be the one I drew on the right:
The 2x nailing piece is the square yellow box. The siding itself is indicated in green.
My question is, When does the 2x piece need to be added? I was thinking about this, and for some reason I feel like the 2x nailing strip should be nailed on top of the last piece of siding, so as to cover the gap that would be left exposed if it were added after the strip was attached.
I can't figure out that little intersection. Even if I nail the 2x strip to the wall first and run the siding up to it, the soffit piece will also be cut and run up (along the bottom of the 2x) to that corner where it will meet the wall. I know that cut will not be perfect, so what covers that???
He said the reason he used to use a 2x strip like this is because it is way cheaper than f-channel or J-channel, and works just as good. I just can't figure out why he told me to do my soffit pieces first if this strip must nail on top of the siding.
I'm sorry this is so long, I'm just trying to be sure I put enough info out there so you folks can understand me.