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You are what the construction industry needs more of; You are a man who takes pride in what he does and approaches your craft in a professional manner. Thank you for all the informative videos.
Thanks for the tips! What impressed me the most was this video was put up 6 years ago, and he still comes to comment section to answer questions to this day. That is something you never see, props to you Shannon your a good guy!
Shannon, Thank you so much for this! Love your show! Never did a repair in my life until I started watching your videos. It's saving us a ton of money on our old, new home.
It's been said a million times but seriously, your videos are fantastic. You explain things very well and it's greatly appreciated. I've viewed many of your videos for guidance and always feel confident I do things and do them well after I watch them. Keep up the great work and again, thank you very much.
Thanks Mr. Shannon, your awesome videos helped so much and saved me piles of cash and time. Checking the fascia for square is a HUGELY important tip, otherwise it'll get crooked and then you've got problems. I love how you do the corners too! A tip on house wrap I didn't realize until after - line up the marks on it with studs! It will make siding installation much easier. Also in my experience, get help installing the fascia - it flexes vertically incredibly easily and the upper edge can get caught on anything sticking out on your fascia board. Then if you don't see it and put screws in, it bends and looks crummy.
Thank you for the tip on screwing the J channel in from the bottom. I was going to cut 200ft of wood strips to nail them to. I didn't want to buy F channel since I already have hundreds of J channel pieces I got for free. you can tell that you really do this for a living, and are not just a company rep making a product video.
Thanks Jason looking forward to seeing your video.....oh ya, you don't have one thats why you are watching mine. Everyone does things slightly different,this is how I was shown as an apprentice and thats how I do it.
Hey Shannon, great videos man! Helped me get through my garage build! thanks for the helpful tips, because sometimes the hardest part of a project is getting started and your videos are a great push in the right direction!
Truly excellent. Every little detail was covered including how to make the fascia cover almost magically hold itself up until nailing it. I may be putting up new soffits for spring Break now!
Thanks for your videos. The instructions are very clear and easy to follow. My husband and I built a garage this summer with the help of your videos. We are novices and couldn't have built the garage without your instructional videos. The garage looks great! Thank you!
Awesome video! I've done a lot of renos but have yet to do soffit. Went from being very unsure to very confident in 15 mins. Thanks for the detailed vids!
I recently became a secretary for a construction company mainly dealing with roofing and gutters so I've been looking for videos that would help me better understand exactly the difference between soffit, fascia, leaders etc. being that I had no prior construction experience. Just wanted to say thank you for this video, you are a great teacher and extremely easy to understand, I really enjoy your tutorials. Almost make it look as though even I could do it ;) Thanks again!
Im a new home owner who bought a major fixer upper and have been learning as I go. I ripped apart our rotted edge boards of our garage yesterday and this video here pretty much has me all set to finish it up after work this afternoon. Thanks!
Thank you so much for producing this great video. I appreciate it so much. I have to redo the soffit and fascia on my garage and I was having a hard time getting motivated to do it because I had never done one and this is going to be just what I need in order to do it properly. I am going to get out there right now and get hammering......:) Thank you again.!!!!! Barb.
If you do measure ahead and find one length will work, stack a few sheets of soffit together, clamp the edges with vice grips so they stay lined up, and cut through them all at once with a thin cutoff wheel on your grinder. Saves oodles of time on a big job. The Skill saw with blade backwards trick works too but it sends metal shards everywhere and will often bend corners as Shannon mentioned. AWESOME video as always!
I am a home remodeler been disabled for quite a while these videos have helped me so much to remember how to do the job right I really appreciate all the different videos I like your style you helped me to be a master of Jack of all trades thanks fellas great job on your videos all of them
Before installing security camera, I want to know the structure of the under-roof and exterior wall to run the cables. This video gives me very good answer. Thank you Shannon.
I wish I had hidden my cameras under my soffit. Since they are 4K cameras and standard size, people think my house is a security compound. But at least they are easy to access if I need to and I can also redirect them. I don't think I could get any with optical zoom, or with much maneuverability, that are in a dome or smaller format.
Hey, listen. I really appreciate you taking the time to do this. I had a general idea about how to accomplish this and you sure as hell cleared it up. I really feel confident that I can handle this myself. Saving me thousands of dollars.
@@HouseImprovements - Hey Shannon, can one put the J-channel onto the 2" rigid foam exterior XPS, by using longer screws? I want to extend the foam all the way up to insulate to the roofline.
Awesome video, as always. Just ran across an issue while installing soffit on my toolshed and you, Shannon, helped me tremendously, and not the first time either. Thanks for your work!
Thanks. As a subcontractor i use tips and tricks from everyone. I damaged some soffit the other day installing aome seamless gutter. This video helped me do a perfecr repair. I might get into thw soffit business now too!
Dont like that corner. The rainwater is going to travel down that gable facia and go behind the gutter facia aluminum wrap water behind there cant lead to anything good
@@soulmist2163 Perhaps do the outer (lower) one first, and then the one that goes up the roof... that way the lower one folds under the one that comes down from the roof, so rainwater can't flow inside anything. Probably will be fine for a long time either way though.
Russell, the truth is that you are damaging your blood vessels to the extent of posing catastrophic risk. Don’t have a stroke. You are trying to educate people, but your legitimacy has been destroyed by your particular use of language.
Thank you SO MUCH for your help! This is the absolute best video/resource online for understanding soffit and facia! Thank you for cutting the stress out of my Friday just when I needed it most. You’re amazing.
Shannon, great job! but it would have been nice to have seen the J-Channel being installed. I don't mean to offend you, but sometimes you take for granted the audience is more experienced than some of us are. All RU-vid demonstrators never seem to manage to have any difficult jobs they are willing to show a person how to do, or show anything out of the obvious simple projects. Please don't be offended. It is meant as constructive criticism. Been over 40 years since I have done any of this and a lot has changed. Now I am trying to build my daughter a house and learning from you. Keep up the good work. We appreciate you! Thanks.
Ok so lets get this straight... People who are giving negative feedback and saying this isnt good, WHY ARE YOU WATCHING THIS IF YOU ALREDY KNOW HOW TO DO THIS SHIT
you are a true Profesional not only the ways to accomplish the task at hand but also verbally explaining how to. i appreciate the straight forward information .thank you
Because the reason they know how to do this stuff is that they watched multiple perspectives. I'm one of those guys. I've installed tons of this stuff, but I'm always interesting in seeing what other people are doing. This guy makes a lot of mistakes. He clearly hasn't seen how most people do this.
Steven Darden This is nowhere near a correct way of doing this. I don't have time to write up all the reasons you should not follow this video, but a glimpse at the other comments should tell you some basics. My contribution is to warn you not to follow this. You're probably better off googling and reading about it rather than watching videos. And really that would be my advice: do what this guy has never done and research different techniques and you'll figure out why people do things differently. That goes for anything you want to do well. You are never going to do a good job at anything following the first random guy teaching you on the internet. Shop around.
Hey Shannon. Thank you for the videos. I'm a pretty decent DIYer and found your videos add extra detail and thoroughness when I have questions regarding my own projects. Keep up the awesome work and thanks again! Cheers.
Thanks Shannon I have some fascia & soffit work that needs to be done and now feel much more comfortable in tackling this job myself. I always enjoy your videos.
Thank You so much for taking the time to make this video!....I have had a problem with contractors starting a job and then wanting more money than what they; quoted me to finish the job.....We will have to finish the job ourselves, it seems....You make it look so easy.....I just wish I could have hired you to do the job to begin with.....I appreciate this......
Wow...are you ever good at what you do...you hand coordination is fantastic...and the info was really extensive...you're a real asset to the buildind trade...
I'm a 62-year-old female, and still a DIY-er; my shed needs this, only 12 feet on both sides; I studied the build of it for days to figure out how, then I watched this; most excellent video.
Wow, after watching other video's that were more confusing than helpful, I hit your's & you are an expert @ doing the job, but even better you are a fantastic teacher that presents every step clearly. How you teach/explain the process is everything. You are a great teacher & contractor. Thank you so much for your clear, simple & straight-forward way of explaining how to install soffit, fascia & j-trim. THANX!!!
Great Video. I have watched a number of your videos and they have all been helpful because you show step by step, assuming nothing. The internet has become my own free contractor's college.
Very informative video. I now know what is underneath soffit and fascia, and feel confident locating something solid to hang flower baskets from. Thank you!
Thanks for coming back to the video to ask your question.When you ask here instead of on the channel more people can be helped as well. the drill is a Milwaukee and the screws where a #6 x 5/8 flat head screws.
By flat head, I assume you mean slotted, correct - as in, you could use a flat-head screwdriver to drive in the screw? Or do you mean that the head is actually flat rather than pan head or round? I assume you wouldn't use a flat head screw because those are usually used with wood because they taper to the shank of the screw which would dimple the surface of aluminum - please correct me if I am wrong. Also, what material of screw do you recommend? It seemed that yours were painted.
Fantastic video! I've been watching your videos from your first one chronologically. Thank you for taking the time to explain what you are doing and why. Awesome 👍
I've never seen that detail done that way before, where the soffit meets the other soffit, you kept the facia at 6" the whole way. Looks very neat! I'm going to do mine that way.
