Should Roof Sheathing Overhang Fascia

Building a shed roof with an overhang is an important part of protecting your shed and thus should not be overlooked.

Should roof sheathing overhang fascia.

Don t overhang the sheathing at all. Use 2x6 for fascia board. The fascia is the wide board that s installed on edge and runs horizontally along the edge of the roof. This is to just enough to cover the 3 4 x6 actual fascia.

This indicates the upper edge of the first row of roof sheathing leaving enough overhang that the subfascia and fascia will tuck neatly underneath when the time comes. I ve trimmed my roof sheathing to run between 5 8 and 3 4 over the sub fascia. Fascia and soffits finish the edges of roofs by covering the ends of the roof rafters or roof trusses where they overhang the sides of the house. If the drip edge is laid right up against the fascia or rafters then because of surface tension the water runs right up against the fascia and underneath the soffit.

Then i do a metal drip edge to cover it all. Measure up the rafter 45 3 4 inch from the cut end of the truss tail and snap a line along the trusses. Put that up first. If not whatever you decide to use to cover the sub fascia aluminum cap plowed cedar hardi trim board.

Make sure it is square level etc. Just like this pic except on the end of the rafters just the grey colored fascia get rid of that yellow block they are showing behind the fascia. Yes the plywood should be flush of slightly shy of the outside of the sub fascia board. The roof sheathing comes down and ends on top of the 1 x fascia.

The drip edge should be installed over a piece of 1 2 furring strip so that it stands off from the fascia or rafter tails. Now that i ve modeled what i was.