How to Cut Soffit or Siding With a Circular Saw!
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- čas přidán 28. 09. 2014
- I show you a simple wooden jig I built myself to cut new aluminum soffit. It saved me countless hours of work. This jig can also be used to easily cut vinyl or aluminum siding.
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I have been installing soffits for 15 years. Nice job on the jig. We use a fold table but I do this for a living. Reversing the blade works but if you want the cleanest and easiest cut use a carbide blade. Much cleaner cut, less noisy and goes through the soffit like butter
Thanks! I did use a carbide tipped blade but I very much doubt it was a quality one, just a cheesy one that came on the saw. A higher quality carbide blade would likely do wonders for cutting thin sheet metal like this 👍
@dannybojat carbide blade flipped backwards 🤔
I was a little worried about installing the blade after reading a couple of reviews. But it was amazingly easy. Took about 1 minute. Works great czcams.com/users/postUgkxjpBI8OOeUXib_iT7UomCrQ-uauwZJ62c . Cuts easily and is perfect for pocket cuts I needed to make for replacing some old deck boards.
Beautiful explanation, no-nonsense, and straight to the point. I plan to build one of these today! Thanks for the video.
It is a great idea. All other ways to cut soffit are way much awkward. Thank you I'm gonna build this simple wood device :-) Thank you.
Like finding these easy ways to work
I could have thought of this on my own, but why would I, some times it just easier to other people do the thinking while i get to work. Thanks buds
Thanks for sharing your tips. Very clever and helpful.
Chris Campbell Excellent! Thanks for watching!
Made one today. Works Great. Thanks buddy
Awesome! 👍
Nice video . Thank so much
About to tackle job. Best idea I have seen yet!!
Great! Did you try this out?
yes i did. wasn't an exact replica of yours but same basic design. my son fed soffit through, i measured and stopped it and made cut. made job go quickly ! Thanks for great tip!!!
Gussy Holm Excellent, glad to hear that!
I made the cut twice with tin snips, warped them all to hell. Came inside, watch this video, about 20 min later and I have the same setup. Worked perfect, thanks.
That’s wonderful! Thank you for dropping by!
like the jig
Brilliant thanks
Great video, thanks! I could use that jig for more than just soffit as I don't have a sliding mitre saw.
Absolutely, you could add a 45 insert to do mitres too.
Could you use a sliding chop saw for this?
I don't see why not. I think this is more for if you don't have one though.
Thanks! Project is DONE! Used my sliding miter saw with the blade turned around.
thanks
Great tip, I'm going to make my jig right now. Rental place wants $50 a day to rent a soffit cutter. Cheers
+brimest0ne That's awesome!
Add ruler to the end closet to you and you will have nice gauge for any size right where you put the square. Old tape measurer works great.
That’s an excellent idea
Yep... that's the smart way to do it.
You got it 👍
one last question now that the soffit is going to look great I'm thinking about replacing the fascia aluminum that slides behindr the gutter. just double-checking does it just slide up behind the gutter or does it have to be behind some kind of drip guard?
Yup, the fascia goes on before the gutters go up and yes the top edge of the fascia tucks in behind the drip edge. Hopefully you already have drip edge installed on your roof because it gets nailed down under the last row of shingles. The gutter typically gets installed under the drip edge too.
Reversing the blade takes time, then when you need to cut wood you have to flip the blade, easy fix, leave blade in normal, pull saw backwards to do the cut, same as flipping the blade, but instead the material is push down on the table instead of lifting, use the top of the jig instead of the bottom for alignment,
That might work, but keep in mind that reversing the blade means the backside of each tooth is striking the workpiece, not the front. This is especially helpful with sheetmetal because the teeth are too aggressive for such thin material, the backside of each tooth cuts less material and results in a better cut. You could try your method, but ultimately turning the blade around takes a minute and you can switch it back once all of the soffit has been cut, not a big deal.
...yep.
I always use a plywood blade and turn it backwards.
Yup exactly
When you are cutting through the aluminum how are you not cutting through the piece of plywood it's sitting on?
You can adjust the height of the blade to only cut so deep. In this case i adjusted the blade to only just graze the plywood below.
@@PatonHaus thank you very much I just now set it up and it works great 😁😁😁
What blade do I use?
I just used the blade that came on my saw, the aluminum is very thin and soft so I imagine most blades will cut just fine. You can experiment with reversing the blade if it doesn’t cut right the first time.
@Kyle Oneill do it that way for aluminum? Thank you very much 😊
Thank you very much for all the help I just set it up and it works great. 😁
why turn the blade around ?
Jerry Peckford Hi Jerry, for whatever reason with the blade in it's normal orientation it just shreds the aluminum to bits. Turning the blade around makes a MUCH cleaner cut.
+PatonHaus now that it's a year after your reply, do you have any new information about why the saw blade was making a mess unless it was turned backwards? Did you just happen to figure out this trick yourself or did you learn about it somewhere else?
I don't know who started the blade backwards thing, but you put a plywood blade in the proper way and pull the saw backwards through the material. It then cuts down pushing the material into the table instead of pulling the soffet up.
The saw should start away and pull toward you with the soffit against the far fence. The way you are cutting pulls the material and the bur up. Pulling toward you the soffit cannot lift and slide causing binding and shifting. Also no need to turn the blade around, you will cut a cleaner cut with the blade cutting as designed. I hope this makes sense and the cleaner edges make installing into f channel much easier.
I tried cutting without reversing the blade and it absolutely obliterated the soffit. Turning the blade around resulted in a very clean cut. I’m sure there are different ways to get a good result, this is what worked for me.
Now days they make purpose build blades for cutting sheet metal. Much better and safer option IMO.
Ну очень интересно, но не понятно.
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OK so that's metal soffit, mine is plastic and breaks into pices with the saw.
That could be due to two things, one of which is your blade and whether it is in good shape. The second thing is whether the soffit is allowed to slap up and down during the cut. Try holding your soffit down using another piece of wood to prevent it from slapping up/down, and make sure you have a nice sharp blade.