Comments on: Farmers Porch On Colonial Style House

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:32:36 +0000

AJsmama – I’ve added additional photos and details on the other article about the soffit:
http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/vinyl-beadboard-soffit-for-porch/

I hope that helps a bit.

By: AJsmama

AJsmama — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:14:44 +0000

Thanks – we have a gable vent at the end above the ceiling but between the fascia and the beam last 10″ or so isn’t vented. Didn’t matter when old loose stuff (run the long way with butt joints and not nailed) was in, but maybe we want to vent that now same as soffits on the rest of house.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:32:38 +0000

AJsmama – I would definitely vent the outside portion to help get some airflow up there. I’ll try to get some pictures for you this weekend.

By: AJsmama

AJsmama — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:12:36 +0000

Thanks – after pulling down all the vinyl the other day, my contractor got 54 pieces of Certainteed. I didn’t want to try to mix old unknown and new Certainteed, have a lot of waste (use only 89″ out of 150″ new stock and 43 pieces of salvaged 145″ stock), so we figured that will be enough to run 75″ from house to beam (if we pad the beam out with 3/4″ PVC and add a 1″ J-channel with 1/2″ expansion gap instead of 1/4″), but then we need to buy a little more (or use the old stuff) for the soffit. We have vented soffits but I didn’t know if we needed to keep the porch soffit the same vented stuff as the house, or just use solid bead on all. I was thinking of adding a spandrell for interest so boxing out the beam with 6″ of PVC (1×8) below the existing wood will serve that purpose plus a break so we can use all of the 12.5ft stock.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:09:05 +0000

AJsmama – The outside soffit is vented soffit. I’ll try to take some photos and email them to you.

By: AJsmama

AJsmama — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:04:45 +0000

Another question – what did you do for soffits on the outside of your beam? I can see some sort of eave in the photo, but your drawing doesn’t show any soffit, just the fascia, on the outside of the beam.

We can’t figure out what the material is that we have, it’s not Certainteed, someone thought Alcoa but that’s not it either. Certainteed is close but not quite. The joists aren’t quite level front to back, the joist hangers are a little lower than the joists and the triple 2-by beam, and then the fascia which has a lip on it where edge of old material was resting (the long way) and where we were planning on ending (butt ends) run the short way is lower than the beam, so now we are considering boxing the beam out lower like your to look intentional, running material to it like you did (ending in J-channel?), then running same or different material on the other app. 10″ wide side (“soffit”, again using J-channel?),so material is level on each side of the beam though at 2 slightly different levels. A picture of your overhang outside of your beam/columns would be appreciated.