How to Install New Soffit on an Old House

We are giving an old house a bit of a facelift with new soffit facia and gutters! #homeremodel

[dande]

Excellent video. Appreciate that you don’t include a bunch of unnecessary content. Straight to the point! Subscribed

[EmmettCaraker]

I have completely replaced all of the soffit on my house, but I first removed the old wooden soffit for increased ventilation. The way this was done it looks to me that it would actually greatly reduce the amount of ventilation to the attic. Here in central Florida attic ventilation is of great importance due to the heat and high humidity.

[amdistant]

Good video and to the point. I have some rotted timber facia and didn't even think to go with aluminum facia and put on soffits on top of the existing ones so this definitely made me think outside the box.

[zatch]

If you did this is a northern climate, you will likely have ventilation issues. The aluminum soffit has its ventilation spread over a large area, when only adding perforated soffit over areas that have ventilation holes it will likely restrict airflow. Potentially leading to overheating attics, or frost and condensation issues causing attic rain.

[talapeanutbutter]

Moms house has rotten fascia and soffits. Here in Florida I’ve been told that the wood needs to be pulled off. But when the last roofer 21 years ago just put aluminum soffits over the wooden vented ones. So this time around, all that’s needed is pull old soffits off and apply aluminum or vinyl?

[Msleelee]

This is perfect cause the squirrels keep damaging my facia my sofits and some times my roof it’s driving nuts I hate squirrels 😠😠😠

[christopherdekonstrukt]

That's great if you already have plywood in place. My soffit is shot so it must come down. I'll probably have to replace some termite eaten rafter tails as well.

[paulburket]

How much would u estimate it cost to do that section? Soffit, facia, and gutter?

[BWeezy-swwy]

0:56 I might reuse my gutter. I already took mine down. When my nail was stuck I used another hammer to knock into the first one or a crowbar to loosen the nail with out damaging the gutter

[billwilliams]

Why did the gutter need to come off? Why nail it to bottom of the fascia and not to the soffit? Cant this be done?

[stylicho]

Does the aluminum fascia all come in the same size? I have wood fascia that has some rot and am thinking about changing it with aluminum

[joemc]

I am looking for a video that takes the soffit down so we can add hurricane clips to the rafters and sill plate. This is a big deal in the state of Florida. We’re losing our insurance because of wind mitigation. All rafters had to be tied with metal clips to the sill plate nails don’t work..

[RickCote]

Omg this was very hard to watch. Please everyone remove your wooden soffit for better ventilation and use screws to install J channel and fascia.

[joecox]

good, but, why don't you list the product you used? soffit/facial/screws size etc??? be smart please!

[davidgentz]

We use a pilot drill you don't need a real heavy duty drill motor can fit in your back pocket more like a screwdriver electric screwdriver with a drill bit on it that works perfect