Colbyt wrote:
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I own a brick rancher with wood trim, and am planning to install
siding for the fascia and soffit. I also want to put siding on
gables. House is 40+ years old; the wood soffit and fascia are in
pretty good shape. My questions concern whether -- in a case like
this -- the "one-by" soffit are generally *removed*, or whether the
siding is "simply" installed over the wood. So, queries a


(1) Should soffit be removed and completely *replaced* by a quality
siding? *Or* should (most) everything be left in place, and the
siding overlaid?


(2) If the best answer is to leave the wood in place, should the wood
be refinished [like primed and painted], or at least some Waterseal or
Spar Urethane be put on the wood before "siding it in"?


If the new everything is properly installed and flashed no water will ever
get to the wood underneath.

"Properly" being the critical word here. Previous owner did that to this
place, with Aluminum and not Vinyl, and F'd it up. Water got behind the
cladding on the fascia, rotted it, ran across the soffit and into the
wall by the kitchen window, and rotted the wall and window. I'm not a
fan of covering wood with anything that can keep it sitting in water. If
you simply MUST cover it up, be sure to have plenty of weep holes at the
low points. I've seen good wood windows destroyed in a similar fashion
by idiot siding contractors who skin the brickmold with coil stock
formed on site, and actually route water down against the window frame.
'Maintenance Free', my pale gray ass.

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