Continued on with the soffit mould today, as we had to make a few adjustments using the hand plane and chisel to get it sitting correctly against the weatherboard.
In order to do this, we had to use a hand plane & sometimes a chisel to cut down into the area, so the back section of the mould was lower cut than the front.
We double checked that this was the case by placing a set square against the front edge & making sure that the timber sloped down towards the back of the cut (against the square edge).Once this had been done, we re- checked it sat ok by putting it up against the gable end of the house again.
Once it was good, we were ready to fix it into place. We did this by drilling holes straight up from the soffit mould through to the lining, & then used the rosehead angular 75mm nails to fix into place. There were several fixing patterns that we could have used for the soffit mould, the first is to put them in line with the nailing lines of the weatherboard, and the other option was to place on nail at every weatherboard overlap (which is what we did).
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