So in this video what I want to show you is how I frame out my eaves
it's not
necessarily the right way there are millions of different ways of doing it, but this is the best way I found
so
Basically once you're ready to put your roof on
obviously you're going to put your fascia on and you may get that done in Timber Fascia or
you might get a metal fascia done personally this day and age I'd prefer a metal fascia
but the big thing to remember with the fascia is that it must the groove in the fascia has to be below the
Individual end of your rafters or you truss tails otherwise you never going to get your sheets in
so first thing I do is I
go up to the end of one run of wall and I put in a piece of timber that
runs
Back along my wall, you know, probably
The same length that it sticks out past the wall and I nail that off to the actual wall, and it's going to sit about 10mm
Above my Brickwork now
Hopefully if you gave the bricklayer a drop off height, he's laid the brickwork to the drop off
So that's going to give you about 10mm clearance
below your
below your eave, so this piece of timber, technically should run from just above that groove
level
Along your wall, so they should actually be let's get under here. So you can see it sits. Just above the groove and
it runs level, nailed back to the actual wall frame and
do the same
about half way along
okay, if you can get it the nail off to the side of the rafter that'll be that's pretty good and really need that and
again 10mmclearance there and
then the same at the other end now
obviously if the bricklayer just lays the brickwork up to a height and you have to lay the
Box the Eave up around the Bricks then you're not going to be able to do this step, but you can pretty much work it
with the next step so
in between those pieces I'm going to run a piece of timber
So at the moment that's only supported at both ends, so it's just flopping around all over the place
but then I'll put in some trimmers or
some droppers
that come down off my rafter or off my truss down onto the
framing mnaterial
These are generally tile batten or little bits off cut whatever you can find around the place doesn't need to be anything too fancy
so then you can then cut in your
Trimmers we'll get back to that and
so put a trim in nail it flush to the bottom of
the framing member there
and it should end up
Get out of there. It should end up flush with the bottom of the groove there as well
okay, so that's just running just on the outside the Brickwork 10mm above it. So you can nail
your sheet up
outside the Brickwork
now
fly around the house
With the windows commonly the windows set the set in and a half a brick or so from the actual
the outside of the Brickwork so you need to do a little something a little bit different round windows because we need more support
so what I commonly do it the windows is I'll nail that first that batten on to the actual frame of the window
and that just gives me some support right up against the wall and
If you do that
for every window
then you can drop your
Trimmers in and
Then where we've got a bit of Brickwork here. We need support out here
you can then put your
Trimmer or just a short length of timber in between those two pick up the sheet and the molding
From underneath there now here. We've got a corner here and
Later on we're going to put some molding around here and return it back into our window just to finish everything off
So need to think about providing some blocking
so throw trimmers in there as well. Sorry, but we need to think about throwing some blocking in that actually supports the
corner of that sheet
Corner of the sheet and it's going to support our molding when we put our molding in around here
there won't be any molding across the window so don't worry too much about that the
Fiber cement should slide straight in above the top of the window, so here's clearance there
and still see our clearance
and we put our sheets in
right round and then obviously to finish everything off
we need to put a type of molding and use anything like quad, square, Scotia
Doesn't really matter as long as it covers up the gap
The whole idea that 10mm gap is to give us some allowance
for when the
when the timber frame shrinks and studs
Shrink in length, and the whole house
settles down under the weight of the Roof that 10mm gap means that the roof won't exert any pressure onto the Brickwork and
the Timber Frame will remain
the load-bearing
element of the House
so
everything gets a
quad mold or some sort of molding
Just to finish it off
So important things to remember whether you're eve. Is that you're framing must be
Sturdy must be able to take the weight of the sheet it must give
the 10mm clearance to allow the frame to settle and you
know just
throwing the fiber cement in and sitting a brick on top of the on top of it
It's not an acceptable method of construction. It actually needs to be
properly framed out
So there you go. That's my way of framing up and Eave