Pole barn house soffit install!  

What an absolutely blessing and joy it is to watching you doing this whole project. In all of my life I have never seen ANY person working as thoroughly as you do. I hope that is the right word I use, for English is not my mother tongue. May our Lord Jesus bless you so much in all you do‼️‼️‼️🍒🍇

without a doubt, If I wanted to have a house built, you are the one I would Come to !! What a great job you are doing !

Hi, Andrew! You are very clever in the way you changed your vent pipe. See you tomorrow night. I don’t comment much on the livestream. I get a kick out of you and the other guys. They give you a hard time, and it’s hilarious.

Excellent finishing touches

Personally, I would install hardy board soffits.

Last I remember there are small round screened vents ,, maybe 1" or 1 1/4" .normally used under windows. A small air flow will help remove any moister trapped in void.

Wow, y'all will be moving in before you know it! Looking great! 👍👍

I've never seen those ends boxed in on the bottom side, that's totally new to me. Since attic vent is not needed, I can see it, just never seen that before. I like the idea of it. I would be thinking "fill with foam", since everything else was.

With the way building materials and their availability is today, I'd wouldn't even try to guess when you're going to finish. I do know you're going to have a nice house when it's all said and done.

Nice👍moving fast now.. coming together. If you really had future plans of wire, cool thought would be to run 3/4 electrical pvc pipe through the truss to each end so all you had to do is pull down soffit ends and pull the wire.

Andrew you are perfect at explaining things. Everything looks really good. Love your videos so thank you. Take care from Kincardine, Ontario. 🇨🇦

Looking at what your accomplishing so far, your prediction and my prediction to completion, mine seems a lot closer. I'm not saying when, because of your contest, but your zooming along. Looking great. God Bless

Its probably a bit too late to do it now (but you could always keep this on your to do if the opportunity arises list) but given your problem with insects (and one of my best friends lives in florida, she is constantly waging a war on insects colonizing her house) if you ever reopen any of those spaces, they make a safe additive for paints that if you mix it in and paint a surface, it will basically kill insects who walk on it. You could paint the insides of those cavities if you ever open any of them up. Keep up the good work. If I ever make the Florida move work out, I will be borrowing a lot of the designs and concepts you used in your home, in smaller scale for my eventual home.

With the humidity there I would say yes

I'd put in a few 2 inch vents the little round ones.

Looking great:) I’m catching up:)

Looking good 👍 💞

I'm no carpenter, but I do know lumber, that treated will still be drying, and without some venting, that could start bucking out, as it does dry cause it will shrink. It could sweat, and cause your roof board to rot after some time. Tim S.

Hi Andrew, my husband and I enjoy doing DIY home projects and watching your methodical approach to projects has inspired us to do the same. We are planning some upgrades in our work shop so wish us luck. 🤞🤞

I would vent you should be able to drill small hole for every cavity and attach wire mesh so critters can't chew through.

They sell little 3 inch round aluminum disc with screen in them. They Mount flush and I would put one every 4 to 5 feet search. They're also very cheap and very easy to install.

Going strongly ahead:))))

you got it going on Andrew.👍

Good morning Andrew. Weekend greetings from Jamaica 🇯🇲🙏 let's see what is in store for today episode 🤔😅

Andrew why paint when you can cover all of the overhang with aluminum I think you can get it in the same color as your siding. If it's your forever home you don't want to be painting when you get to be a old man

Hey Andrew, it's Jim in Fort Myers, Florida. as you know living in Florida we have high humidity and high dew points so moisture is everywhere. I

Looks good. Can't remember did you talk about adding outlets for Christmas lights?

Well here in Canada they do rotten like that. But simply adding drill holes with a little grill to each row would help. You are simply trying to remove dead air. Not cooling it just if bad air it can dry. At the end you will need to box it that will create a spot for wasps to build nests. The trick is to now and then spray some wd on em

Very interesting video

Since you asked, your soffit does need some kind of vents I believe. Nothing crazy. I think if you hadn’t have caulked it that would’ve been probably enough. But if moisture does get in there it’s still going to be trapped end it may not affect the inside of the house but it’s going to affect the wood inside of that structure. It doesn’t have to be vented like a vented ceiling soffit but a few gaps or holes would be a good idea. A lot of people will just use tongue and groove and just not to caulk or seal it. It will be a pain now that’s up there but I think even drilling a few small holes would help, maybe make a metal jig so they are uniform and look good, but just some thing for a little bit of air exchange but not big enough for wasps. Lol You basically created a bunch of cavities up there that are individual so you can’t just do event every 10 or 15 feet. If it were me I would just go along the outside edge and drill a series of small holes. That being said, I don’t think it’s a huge problem so if you just left it you’d probably still be OK, it’s one of those just in case sort of things that’s not really critical but could be beneficial if moisture did get in there.

House is looking mighty good Andrew :-)

On another note,, look forward to seeing your live stream tomorrow, to see what your wife is cooking up, we will be grilling barbecue beans, and a brisket I pulled out of the freezer..

As tight as you made it I would vent it. Moisture and heat needs vented. It's nit going to leak and get wet but condensation is also a possibility. Then add the fact of a overflow on the gutter mah why not, 3-8 " from a big box store and paint them..

We got to get you to 40K before 31 Dec! Great video as always.

Sorry I hit the send button by accident. I've been in construction for 20 years and it's always a good idea to have vents up there even in Dead space.It wouldn't take more than two or three vents per side but it would be a good idea to do so. I like watching your videos. And I learn things off of you too. Keep up the great work everything looks fantastic.

Air flow with screens might be a plus.....

Be interesting how you finish the soffit ends. And thanks for the sawdust bath from the blower 😂

I would vent it because given your location especially in the fall is gonna be condensation

Almost ready for a slumber party......

They sell 3 inch round vents i would put 4 on gutter sides and 3 om each gable to peaks

Man its moving along Andrew . I would vent it cause overdue it what I do . Plus it’s not that much money to put a couple vents on each side . Better safe than sorry .

Make vents in the ends where your transition is.... it might look ugly now, but you can make it useful. If only you had a laser to mark out a decorative vent shape ;-)

use some kind of vent on the transition point

Looking great! was wondering about the venting also. Metal roof may make it unnecessary, maybe?

See ya tomorrow at 5!

Great work Andrew. The house is looking incredible. Fantastic work my friend.

Because of your area...I would think putting small vents in there would keep it from rotting...I'm in LA (Lower Alabama) and it does seem to happen around here.

Andrew I am no expert by any means but I do feel some type of venting would be a good idea. If anything I don't think it can hurt. Take care. 🇨🇦

A puck vent Andrew would work no more space you have. If it were mine I'd put one in every 10 foot

No. You don't need to vent that soffit. Any small amount of humidity in there will bake away from the suns heat. In fact, any vents will allow moisture in.

I think you should vent those soffits to some degree. But the real question I have is, isn't that vent pipe pretty close to your fresh air return?

Can you provide an up close view of the quick hitch type of scaffold? Build or buy? I find that to be very functional.

Andrew I am sure you considered it. Can you share why you used plywood and not Hardy board.

I think cosmetically the soffit would look a lot better if you installed some battens. Break up that flat plywood look.

Diddly was here!

Wow... soffit! Facia is next?

Not sure what color you picked for your fascia boards but I would paint the soffit the same color or white.

Looking great. When are the Drywallers arriving? When do the doors & last window being installed?

Also for controlling wild life near your house mark your territory and also add some fake owls as it will have effects on birds and small animals of the wild

Do you have or plan to have a lightening rod on the top of the house?

hey do you have any of those fans left from the ice maker build to move air around your soffits 👍📐🔨🔨

yes hard for me to figure out how to keep air flow through a soffit , 2 in air vents with screens?

I found a dead bird in one

Are unvented common in your area? Up north here I have never seen.

Just a couple would help so you don't

No