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Address Rafter-to-Siding Transition

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Framers Got Kicked Out; Trying to Finish The Cabin (ep.5)

What happens here

A critical issue is identified where the architectural plans show a specific rafter-to-siding transition requiring a 2x8 sub-fascia that doesn't exist as a standard product. To resolve this, the crew devises a solution: trimming the existing rafter ends and then stacking two 2x8 boards horizontally to create a 'snub' for the metal roofing to go over. This customized sub-fascia will allow the siding to overlap properly, ensuring a weather-tight seal and aesthetic finish, despite the plans specifying an unavailable material.

Goal: A design flaw is discovered regarding the rafter-to-siding transition, requiring a custom solution using stacked 2x8 boards as a sub-fascia to create the necessary offset for metal roofing and siding.

Tools and materials

  • 2x8 Lumber
  • Circular Saw
  • Nail Gun

What they say

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the transition from the rafter to our siding here the plans show that there's supposed to be a gap so the pl show that these are cut uh up to here then there is a 2x8 subfascia that goes here and then siding goes over that as the roof rafter uh metal roof goes over here's the problem though the architect design a 2x8 subface that goes there in fact two of them stacked to make this distance they don't make a 2x8 subf shim they don't um uh so we have to consider the material that's out there so what we kind of came up with and I spoke to the sighing guys is we're going to trim this to this size here we're going to put two boards that are 2x8s stacked together to make this distance this is not a 2x8 this is a 1x6 and then that'll create this nub down below here the siding will go over it and then we're going to cover this with a piece of siding sofit trim essentially this is the sucky part I have instructions but they're based off of products just don't exist for this application and that's the most

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