Finishing fascia on large rafters

[Dan1210]

Hey guys, hoping you guys in the usa or even uk can help me with something.
Currently im framing my home in the uk, the house is an american new england style build.
My engineer has specced 260 x 65mm 7.2m long glu-lam rafters. We raised the tails ends of the rafters by 700mm to give me more headroom in the bedrooms upstairs and in turn we extended the tails of the rafters to hang over the building a little further.
Im looking for ideas to finish the fascia on the gable ends to avoid having a huge box installation, common with uk builds
I have seen some good ideas in the usa, seems larger eaves are more common.

 

[andyman]

Open soffit so you can see the rafter or cut back the overhang

 

[Dan1210]

Originally the main roof came right down and extended over the porch area but due to raising the rafters thats not possible. A lean to seems most likely at this point.
I quite like the return idea with the tiny little hipped roofs as shown in attached pic from usa build.

 

[Dan1210]

Thanks andy really i was looking to avoid open eaves detail.
I should say we chose to extend the rafters to make the roof look lower when viewed straight on, it was a problem that has arisen from my bastard engineers scaling my architects drawings.

 

[Rob Z]

Hi Dan

That's exciting to be able to build your own house. I typed in gable eaves trim details to google images.  maybe this will give some ideas to you.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cape+cod+house&safe=off&biw=1093&bih=538&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=YDNVVNSsGcH7sAT4vIHoDA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#safe=off&tbm=isch&q=trim+details+for+gable+eaves

 

[Dan1210]

Awesome thanks Rob, i had done a fair bit of googling, my wording slightly different to yours tho.
Great!

 

[wrightwoodwork]

Just looking at your pictures are the rafter tails all cut ready for the soffit and facia. I would maybe raise the seat cut fir the soffit and maybe around 50mm and have a larger bell cast which would help to reduce the box size. If doing a box you could instead of doing a simple triangle maybe make the box piece longer on the barge board a sort of sweep / curve.    Does the soffit need to be leval or could you increase the depth of the barge board and lower the soffit on the gables maybe 50 mm

 

[Dan1210]

Hey wright, if i understand you correctly, you mean to reduce the fascia height on rafter ends in turn cutting the bottom of the rafters off, which would reduce box size.
No the soffit can be different height on gables compared to gable ends.
I think i may have found the most simple solution in attached pic, thanks to Rob for the link.

 

[wrightwoodwork]

No lift the facia height up. Truthfully that looks the perfect soloution

 

[Scott B.]

You could raise the plumb cut on the tails to narrow the dimension of the fascia.

Usually, on the "ladder" that was added to the gable end, the outer stock would match the rafter profile so that you can wrap the fascia around the corner. Will you be adding a sub fascia or installing finished fascia right over the tails?

 

[Dan1210]

Hi scott i will be adding a sub fascia to the rafter tails and gable end ladder, my problem was to get around the huge triangle (box) that would be on the gable end.
The ladder currently built is just the sub frame and not representative of the final finished fascia height.

 

[Scott B.]

Hi scott i will be adding a sub fascia to the rafter tails and gable end ladder, my problem was to get around the huge triangle (box) that would be on the gable end.

At the return?

 

[Scott B.]

I live in New England (Vermont), and this is a very simple style that we did on our shop build a few years ago. I didn't want the formality of returns on the building.