My house, late 80s Florida construction, has a continuous vented soffit made
out of screen between two boards which are like Hardie; but not.

Harie Board seems closer to 1/4" but this stuff in my soffit is more like
1/2". It's 7-7/8" wide and seems made of some pressed wood with the faux
woodgrain finish.

A small leak caused by the satellite dish caused some deterioration. I can
replace the wood easily enough but I can't seem to find a replacement for
this soffit board. Neither my local Home Depot nor Lowe's had them.

Anyone know what this might be and what it might be called, so when I call
around looking for it I know what to ask? Is this stuff even made anymore?

"Steve" wrote in message
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"StarMan" wrote in
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My house, late 80s Florida construction, has a continuous vented
soffit made out of screen between two boards which are like Hardie;
but not.

Harie Board seems closer to 1/4" but this stuff in my soffit is more
like 1/2". It's 7-7/8" wide and seems made of some pressed wood with
the faux woodgrain finish.

A small leak caused by the satellite dish caused some deterioration.
I can replace the wood easily enough but I can't seem to find a
replacement for this soffit board. Neither my local Home Depot nor
Lowe's had them.

Anyone know what this might be and what it might be called, so when I
call around looking for it I know what to ask? Is this stuff even
made anymore?

It's probably some kind of fiberboard.

I would replace it with HardieSoffet. Rip some shims and nail them to the
bottom of the joists to make up the difference in thickness.


Thanks for the idea.

I'd need a full-length shim strip since it would need to contact the screen
at the edge.

Actually I've found where they made cedar lap siding (I guess a fiber board;
I didn't yet look closely at how it's made) which is of the exact size I
have (7-7/8" x 7/16") but I have no idea where to get one locally.

Steve wrote in
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"StarMan" wrote in
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Thanks for the idea.

The bill is in the e-mail.

I'd need a full-length shim strip since it would need to contact the
screen at the edge.

I've used paint stirrers for shims. They're not the best wood, but
they're consistently sized (and free).

Shims, backing, spacers, split pcs for plugging oversize holes in wood by
coating with glue and pounding in (wood match sticks good for this too),
I mean I use those for all kinds of stuff. I always grab a few when in
the Borg whether I buy paint or not. The 5gal ones are 1/4"...very
valuable:-)

I get the idea one day to swing by paint counter at WalMart and snag
some. The cheap *******s have them behind the counter with a sign above
them for the employee "Only 1 paint stick per customer". Can you imagine,
of the 10 richest people in the US, 5 of them are Waltons. Almost as
disgusting as that Sears Whore Bob VIla.

Recently I went to get a paint stick to actually mix paint. I had run out
:-(


Actually I've found where they made cedar lap siding (I guess a fiber
board; I didn't yet look closely at how it's made) which is of the
exact size I have (7-7/8" x 7/16") but I have no idea where to get
one locally.

Check with lumber yards. You'd be surprised what they can order. They
may be able to get an exact replacement for you.

"Steve" wrote in message
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I've used paint stirrers for shims. They're not the best wood, but they're
consistently sized (and free).

As I have, too. In fact I'm going to use a couple for a window sill where
the RO was 1/4" too low.

I'm a tad leary of using paint stirs on the soffit, though. As you said;
not the best wood, and this particular shim would be EXPOSED to the outside.
I would imagine stirs would be candy for termites... and there's also rot
(paint only is so effective)


Check with lumber yards. You'd be surprised what they can order. They may
be able to get an exact replacement for you.

I am going to call aroud today. With luck I'll find something. I looked
online and found there IS such a thing as 7/16" x 7-7/8" lap siding board
which looks close enough for my application. So it's made; I just have to
find it.

"Red Green" wrote in message
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I get the idea one day to swing by paint counter at WalMart and snag
some. The cheap *******s have them behind the counter with a sign above
them for the employee "Only 1 paint stick per customer". Can you imagine,
of the 10 richest people in the US, 5 of them are Waltons.

Funny. "I'm buying 20 gallons of paint". "Only only paint stick, sir".



Recently I went to get a paint stick to actually mix paint. I had run out
:-(

HAH!