Leon wrote:


Most likely if your soffit is the Masonite type material and has begun
to swell water is probably getting to it from the top inside and or
through a seam along the fascia. Painting will most likely be a
bandaid covering an underlying problem. I constantly fought that
problem with out old home, it is a real PIA.

Understandably, but I have to ask... why in the world would anyone use a
masonite material for a soffit? That just seems dumb.

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-Mike-