Will Vinyl Soffit Sag

How to fix the soffit and fascia on a house.

Will vinyl soffit sag.

Vinyl soffit is designed to be easily installed lengthwise from wall to fascia. The fixture is up tight and the siding is sagging left to right of the fixture. We only recently bought this house and heard from the neighbors that a lot of the damage was done during the 2004 hurricane season in florida. Now my vinyl siding on the ceiling of the porch is sagging.

A 14 or 12 spacing will provide a lot more support for the soffit to reduce sagging between fasteners. Soffit is used to enclose the underside of an eave. 24 or 16 might be commonly used spacing but you can go closer. What has happened is the nails that support the f channel along the edge appears to have pulled loose.

You have a vinyl soffit. Two problems occur on aging eaves. It s about a 12 wide by 20 long section. It s an ugly situation.

It s vinyl it s all snapped together but it sags. How to repair sagging loose soffits. It also is necessary to complete the soffit before the final course of siding is installed on the wall. If i lower the fixture the whole ceiling is now sagging.

The fascia warps slightly and that leads to plywood under the soffit sagging or separating. There will always be some slight bit of sag though which is unavoidable with vinyl but if installed properly it s not bad. I replaced a hanging light fixture on the porch with an updated version. The fix is to remove the area much like you would remove vinyl siding.

There is a tool with a little hook on one end that reaches between the joints of each section and disconnects one from the next.