How To Fit Fascias & Soffits ~ Extension #24
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- James and Ian are fitting the fascias and soffits from Northern Building Plastics.
www.nbp.co.uk
Northern Building Plastics is a leading supplier of high-quality uPVC plastics and building products to the trade. They offer many products, including roofline, drainage, windows, doors, insulation, cladding, composite decking, sealants and consumables.
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I didn't think I'd ever watch a 25m video of plastic, sorry, PVC soffits and facias being fitted. I don't even like the stuff. But the gents in these videos, both in front and behind the camera, make pretty much anything enjoyable to watch. It just seems so relaxed and friendly. Thanks for making, editing and posting.
Wish James and Ian lived 2 miles from me so they could do my extension. Absolute superior job well done gents 👊🏼
James is a true craftsman. A bit ocd, and lots of patience. He also seems to have hindsight on every job!
Our James is a right wholesome chap. I hope this new firm does right by him.
Love to be in a position to get these guys to do some renovation work... such integrity and work ethic. Amazing
Wow! Aiming for perfection at every step of what you lads are doing. Beautiful craftsmanship 👏👏👏 Hats off 🎩
That's a real lovely job guys. The client will be delighted and no decorating too.
Will look grubby as fuck soon enough and require cleaning once or twice a year tho. Hardly maintenance free. But I hate plastics with a passion so you can ignore me
Nice video Roger. James is getting a bit of a natural in front of camera. 👌
@@SkillBuilder yeah they have both been a great addition to the Chanel. Great lads and even better tradesmen.
Great tip re the hammer you used. Thanks! I shall steal that idea!
Great vid. I usually use a combi square for setting my pins out. 40 mm off the front edge and 50mm off the wall. Works for me
Good job. Like everything else it's take your time and plan the job out before starting. And make sure the kettle is full of water😉👍👍
Hi James why don’t you try fitting a Universal trim to back edge of soffit, slide the soffit in then fix front edge with stainless cladding pins then lip on fascia will cover Looks a lot neater pal
Thanks for the tip Mark. I’ll look into it for the next time we do it. 👍
What is a universal trim?
Great job James and Ian👍 love the OSB method, makes a great finish.
It's satisfying to watch good tradesman doing proper job!.. simple job like this, and still watched it to the end. 🙂
Of course thumbs up for the video filming and editings behind scenes. 👍😉
Now living in Australia. Mainly Metal Fascia's (held on by Brackets) & A/C Sheeting Soffits
Sometimes when hitting in the poly-tops they’ll get stuck, bend or the tops will come off. If you just put your claw hammer onto the plastic to pull them out you may dent the plastic. Get your handsaw and lay it flat onto the board and lever onto that to remove the nails. No damage.
Had great fun doing that job! Thankfully James didn’t get me using the superglue, I’d of stuck my fingers to the fascia 🙃
I usually end up with my fingers stuck to mdf skirting every time I use that glue. Nice job by the way. 👌
@@kevinbowden1155 haha! No matter how careful I am it happens every time!
A dirty superglue fingerprint on white facia is basically my trademark at this point.
Quick question, why didn't ye drop the scaffolding to a more comfortable working height?
Great work. 📐A vid on different box ends would be a good one, but probably 6 hours long.
Generally take the undercloak up to top of fascia at eaves to avoid the mortar to the verge ending up behind the fascia. This would then mean the membrane below the under cloak would be correctly detailed and allow any rainwater that gets beyond the tiles to be carried over the fascia rather than behind. Find low modulus silicone To stick the corners and joiners. Thanks for the series been enjoyable
Beautiful precision work there chaps 👌🏼. Up the shorts 🩳 cam , Rog you should have said “where’s James’s 😬🤣🤣🧱👍🏼
Looks as though you’re building a piano- excellent quality.
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Very nice job. The original wooden soffits and facias on my house are rotten and will need replacing soon. I hope I get a good job like that!
Nice job 👍 I would of did the box ends slightly differently I don’t think there is any right or wrong way of doing them and it all looked good when it was finished ✅. I totally agree with James on the nail symmetry there is nothing worse than looking at a job and all the nail spacings are wonky. James is also right about ripping off rotten facias capping them just hide the problem and bite you in the ass later down the line. Do the job properly 👍
Countersink screws on the edges of your box ends then cover with your corner trim. No poly pins on show on the box ends looks a lot cleaner finish. Proper job tho lads
Lovely job guys. Really enjoyed that
box ends you buy 400/600 wide cap-it board to make them. square cut the barge board and the corner/joiners fit without joins in them
Yes but you then have that ugly plastic box sticking out and it looks less like a traditional barge board end.
@@SkillBuilder barge boards where I come from are usually wide enough to cover the ends of the fascia/soffit and we only put box ends on now as you can,t get the nice wide timber to cover them now plus cost and people want cheap easy no maintenance houses as they don,t see the roofline so out of sight out of mind
If you don't kill the polytops all the way you can pull the plastic of after without it catching round the head. Then give them a couple of taps after
Don't leave that plastic on too late long otherwise you'll never get it off.
Cracking job again James!
Looks great guys!
Very nice too .... A proper Tutorial from James .... Good job Roger was there to keep Moral high on a Sweaty Day - EH?? ;-)
I like to do my bit.......I have even learned how to make the tea .
Brilliant video as always 👌
Nice job.
Very tasty work, 👍🔨🇮🇪
I had a repair/replacement on a corner piece of UPVC soffit board recently, there was an entire length of adjacent ‘sagging’ soffit from the gutter to the apex of the roof (about 8 metres in length) held in place with two of those nylon head nails.
Very frustrating knowing that there are companies and workers out there performing this type of job who don’t give a shit about workmanship or standards.
If all tradesmen had the same attention to detail as the guys in these tutorials it would be great.
Lots of highly 'mobile' companies around doing this work for peanuts. Doubt that workmanship is top of their list of priorities.
Remember to fit some swift and sparrow boxes (so easy, open ended ply box pinned together and placed above the soffit and a 65x30mm slot on the soffit board next to the wall)
Our bird species are in a shockingly rapid decline much to the fault of pvc fascias and soffits. As a joiner it's a must for me on every job. Costs nothing and makes a difference.
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Doug. I have lots of nooks and crannies in my house for birds and for 20 years I have watched them return. I often wonder how that happens, are they the offspring of the ones who had the nesting boxes previously? 2019 the blue tits failed to turn up and I wondered what was wrong. Was this an omen? Happily they came back this year, perhaps they just needed a change of scenery.
@@SkillBuilder great! Blue tits are very unpredictable I find, and are very territorial. It could be that the pair moved on or came to the end of their lives and then didn't return. Usually others will have jostled for the nest site previously and will move in. House sparrows however are colonial and like to live together.
Swifts are very different, from leaving the nest they fly back and forth to South Africa each year only ever landing to lay eggs! It's known that if the nest area entrance changes by as much as 50mm they will return and not find it, as their memory of the location is completely fixed. If the nest site changes the pair most likely won't breed again. Super interesting birds.
If you have a minute check out the action for swifts page, this is a post about closed soffits they made.
actionforswifts.blogspot.com/2020/08/swifts-inside-pvc-soffits.html?m=1
Rare quality trade people
Nice job 👍
18v grinder works a treat of cutting the trims
Would you use a metal cutting disc? I’m covering window boards with pvc soon and would love to use the grinder instead of hand sawing.
@@lauramccoy1621 just the grinder with a metal blade for cutting the jointers / corner trims. I would use a chopsaw to mirtre the cuts on a window cill with a fine tooth handsaw or jigsaw to finish the cuts
We normally pull the heads of the pins put one tight up against block work which render will cover and hide one under the lip of the fascia hate seeing pins on soffit
Buy the topless pins there cheaper. 👍
Nice job. And now I know why my corners keep falling off, even after 23 years! Ha Ha!
'Your soffits and facias giving it the big un' 🤣🤣🤣
Beautiful job James (but disappointed ForgeFast Elite screws didn't get a name check in the making of your ingenious poly top nail positioning invention) 😁
Ahh how could I have forgotten! It must’ve been getting up at 3am with the dog or the super hot day that we had that made me forget🤔 never mind there’s plenty more ForgeFast action on this project to come and we are really enjoying using them. I know we have a bit of a laugh with it but they are genuinely quality screws 👍
@@jimichip It's all good James, keep up the good work (and good luck with the dog situation!)
Hang on, if you glue one side of the joining strip to the soffit and you’ve got a 5mm exp gap each side then surely you’ve only got a 5mm exp gap as all you’ve done is glue an extra bit on to the soffit. You’d have to glue one edge hard up to the joining strip and leave 10mm on the other side to get a 10mm exp gap or fix the joining strip to the osb and slide the soffits into it 5mm short on each side?
Yeah, I didn’t explain that properly. The soffits joining strip is loose but the fascia joining strip it glued tight to one side of the gap which still leaves 10mm.
well instructed on fitting fascia ect
I’m not the only one who cares about pin placement ☺️
I only use fascia stuff on new build personally, I’m not sure about the barge board detail where it meets the eaves, I do mine a little different, each to their own.
Neat work though 👍
Interesting video.
One query ... The ends of the boards have clearance left for expansion ... but what about the fixing nails into the rafters?
Same here. PVC siding have slutted holes for nails to allow expansion between nail.
Great bit of roofing but surprised he didn’t angle cut the undercloack to the eve tile detail
when you use a joint strip between 2 fascia capping boards, you mentioned to leave 10mm gap for expansion, so would you bond the joint strip to just one of the fascia boards so the other can slide?
Lovely job!!!
Question about the expansion of the plastics, if you are rigidly nailing along the length, does that mean it is only allowing expansion between the last fixing and the expansion gap?
I still think the tilling looks brilliant quality job 👌🏻
The plastic work looks tops as well
A+
Of course the tiling looks quality, I had the right boys on the job….. But you already knew that!
Looks very smart 🙂👍🏻
Also cutting with a saw produces millions of particles of micro plastics, if you're using capping board almost all the cutting can be done with a sharp Stanley knife. Reducing pollution and saving time on clean up.
BOOOOOOOO
Very impractical
Guys just use a starter trim (j trim) it’s so much easier and neater without poly tops to the soffit boards!
Mark the centres with a square then lay polytop flat with the top on the lip of the UPVC. Stand it upright and they will all be in line the length of the nail from the edge
I always fit the soffit before the roof is battened.
That way you can run the soffit on top of the brickwork and pinch it with battens fixed to the side of the rafters.
Then I dehead some polytops and fix alont the outer edge (which will be hidden by the fascia lip.
Result... No visable fixings in the soffit!
Fantastic video. Are the soffits unvented? I didn't see any vents going in.
yes the vapour permeable membrane coupled with the vapour barrier internally means there is no need for ventilation above the Celotex.
Why didn’t you get a meter of 450mm box end board. And a double ended corner joiner that are longer? The box end looked amateurish with soffit and a joined corner, shame as the rest was going along nicely…
Just go along with a roofing square for your spacing 2mm pilot your 2 holes then continue like that then remove the plastic
Is that a hole between the corner jointing piece and the mortar on the cloaking I can see at point 25.13 on the video ? I'm sure James will deal with it, another cracking looking job !
Never seen it done like that before on a new build? Normally run the soffit over the brickwork? And please use box end corners instead of piecing it up 🙈 other than that I like your work haha
Thanks. On new builds the soffit does generally go on over the brickwork, however, this is an extension so we had to copy the existing. As for box end corners, I’m just not a fan and I think that this way looks more traditional but that’s just me.
Wow are those Scaffolds? My poor ass is out here working on ladders and shit.
I had my roof done and facias, they put em on the old timber, I can tell because the screws aren't pulling it in at some points. Difference between B******ds and conscientious chaps like James & Ian I guess.
I always fit a sub-soffit and sub-fascia, it's a better job all round, 👍🔨🇮🇪
why OSB rather than 22mm pressure treated behind the capping?
we've just had new upvc fascias fitted. The problem is with the overlap between our fascias and the neighbour's timber fascia, as it does not perfectly line up. The roofers sealed the gap with silicone filler. It means it's not a smooth joint, And our fascia sticks out a little bit, the house is a semi . How would you do this? obviously they cant redo the job now. So it's ok for it to be done this way?
Always finish the bird box 100mm past the block work on the return wall.
We've gotten so fed up with those shitty plastic capped pins bending or the cap getting mashed up or breaking off that we pilot most of the holes now as we go along with a dead thin hss. We find it helps but it isn't foolproof. I'm not sure but I reckon the pins are 2/2.5mm in diameter. We use a 1/1.5 mm pilot. Even with a pilot hole they'll buckle and bend if anywhere near a knot. We also use ply/Osb strips and capping boards instead of full thickness fascia so that we can set out the gutter clips to miss any fascia pins but still get a decent fixing.
Are the soffits unvented?
When replacing soffit and facia boards is it advisable to use an eaves protection system and over facia ventilation rather than venting the soffit ? (Love the videos by the way)
another top vid
Do u silicone the nr the wall, ie soffits to wall so keeps wasps out? Can i do soffits only, cash flow, and had wasps nest, ive on eves end some sofits have bowed, not sure if think ply or cement board, soffits under fascias front and back maybe cement board, seem very hard, 60yr old council house facias seem solid, great vid
PVC fasia over the old wooden one is sometimes all the customer can afford. It's not the best option, but I wouldn't call it a cowboy job if the tradesman knows the old fascia is in decent condition, with polypins and screwing the guttering brackets on the fascia should last a very long time
Nice job. When using the mitre bond on the joint cover pieces do you just glue up one edge, so it allows the fascia to move with expansion? Thx.
Yes only ever glue one side
What about vents? It doesn't look like you put any on but they're required for building regs?
No soffit vents?
But if your nailing it down how is it going to expand
Have you ever had any negative feedback from using the CA glue on the plastic?
I did some work for a small local builder and used CA glue for corners and he complained that it stained the plastics yellow?
Have you ever tried using a activator pen with the standard glue , ive found that it stops the discolouring as the spray activator seems to stain the plastic especially in warm weather
Nice tip I’ll try that next time thanks 👊🏻
Could do depends how much you use I think. It sticks like sh1t so if you let the activator dry then apply a minimal amount of glue to the joint/corner strip nothing should leak through?
I find it’s not the leaking through it’s the slight overspray of mist your always gonna get with the can where as the pen also lets you be more accurate with the area in which you need full contact , also I’ve found it depends on the manufacturers plastic and spray it’s never seen me wrong yet,
Hang on....no mention of forge fast, today is a good day.
Hang on...what did you just do? Today is another ForgeFast day.
Come on
I was advised by the building inspector to fit vented soffit boards, the slotted stuff, so I did as advised. Now my loft is full of clustsr flies and wasps, pain in the arse, plus what was a clean white under tile membrane is now crappy dirty from what the flies leave behind. I regret listening to the building inspector now. Does anybody know if there has been invented a clip on insect screen gadget to stop the insect ingress? I have seen rolls of strip but there is no way to neatly attach it over the slots.
When it rains both box ends of my roof drip with water, is this normal? Thought it might be water running down the soffit
Probably water running down the under side of the bargeboards until it meets the box end join then dripping off.
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What is that Facia / soffits brand ..spec is that SB
Northern Building Plastics
It's super glue, activator water
Is james related to james wade 🤔🤣🤣
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What thickness OSB did you use?
18mm
Drop the scaffold planks down 4 ft boys bloody hell
How can the plastic expand if it’s fixed every 400mm ?.
The gutter will surely hide any potential buckling haha! Not sure about the soffit, I always predrill a larger diameter hole than the nail shank and the pan head keeps it in place while leaving the panel to move around.
The nails will allow the movement as the plastic will likely cut into them I'd imagine? It is confusing as the joining strip is glued, so it will move at the same rate as the board it's glued to?
@@thedeathcake you are correct, the plastic will just cut into the nails. As for the joining strips, the ones on the soffit are loose so there’s no worries there and the ones on the fascia are glued tight to one side of the gap so will move with that side only.
Where is No27?
This is No27 it just wasn’t labelled. czcams.com/video/fa3RkgY5bVI/video.html
.Barge Board /Box Ends ..Take your pick ...As a young lad working with the local council we had to renew a number of these box ends usually done off a ladder. As the council works department found it difficult to organise anything there was times we had no ladder. Our boss sent us round to this lady who was giving "Our Boss" loads of earache about “The Birds" coming in and the racket in her attic we would be along as soon as a ladder was available. The chap I was working with Frank Took the lead knocked on the ladies door and said we are here about "The Birds" coming in to your attic. Yes! the lady replied are you here to fix it ?...ERR no said Frank and proceeded to lay down this long cock and bull story with regards the type of birds that she had in her Loft/Attic. Frank says to the lady we need to get the local "Ornithologist" (Bird Expert to you and me) to study the rare birds she had in her attic. What kind of birds are they asked the lady ? ...Frank said does it sound like you have "Morris Dancers" in your attic first thing in the morning about dawn chorus?. Yes the lady replied. Well it could be the long eared blue tail feathered very rare Argentinian Chaffinches. The lady was fair chuffed she had this flock rare birds in her attic. We walked away from the ladies front door she seemed happy “We had completed our mission”....About 2 weeks later the boss came to see me and Frank he was not a happy camper The boss had sent another two Carpenters with a Ladder to fix her Box Ends and she would not let them near her house. She was waiting for the "Ornithologist" to study her rare Birds….Ah to be young happy days….Would have liked to be there when the boss explained there are no such birds.
😂😂😂 Great story, thanks.
@@jimichip You are welcome :)
Get some knee pads fellas or you will regret it when your older
We’re on it. Thanks.
Same old story haven’t to use a scaffold set up for another trade, it’s going to need that lift dropping for rendering , Christ can you imagine …be torture
21:15 This is just super glue. Super glue cures with water, so the activator is likely just water.
You're right, it is superglue, but the activator isn't water.
Don't like how he finished the fascia box
There are several ways of doing it and it is just a matter of taste, no right or wrong.
@@SkillBuilder I Agree I just like my way still a good job
@@1987pagey Do you kite it?
@@SkillBuilder yes
Always do my box ends the same as James apart from we get the long corner trims instead of joining a small piece. kite box ends look crap
I hate white plastic. I've never understood why people like it. Well, apart from cost. It makes me feel like a cowboy when I install it as I just want to get the job done, invoice in and bugger off afterwards.
It looks grubby as fuck within a month and eventually yellows in the sun. The grey stuff is alot better, even the brown 'wood effect' is better. But still... fuck plastics. If i ever get to build my own house I'd rather go with a traditional wooden fascia and have the bugger treated/painted once a year.