My soffit attachment design, please critique.

[epsilonGreedy]

I am going to fit some wooden eaves and have decided on the following design. There are three constraints:

1. The house design requires a Georgian look with a wide soffit overhang plus minimal fascia height. The soffit timber is 220mm wide and fascia is 120mm high.
2. I did not have the eave design sorted out when the walls were built so the brickie added a couple of extra courses hence I cannot rest the soffit on the top course of facing bricks.
3. I would prefer not to drill into the facing bricks.

 

Both the fascia and soffit timber are redwood planed down to 20mm thick.

 

As seen in the photo I have routed a 5mm deep groove in the fascia that the soffit will slot into, the intention of this is to prevent the soffit from warping over time. The chunky weathered 175mm wide hangers are meant to be a single piece of wood and the angled wood next to my arm is meant to represent a rafter at a 30 degree pitch. I might reduce the hanger width to 5".

 

I will be painting the eaves with white linseed paint and so I will be able to drive two screws upwards through the soffit and into chunky hangers then scrape some putty over the counter sunk hole before covering up.

 

600mm rafter centers BTW. 

 

 

[the_r_sole]

do you need an actual soffit board like that or could you just leave exposed rafter ends?

[epsilonGreedy]

12 minutes ago, the_r_sole said:

do you need an actual soffit board like that or could you just leave exposed rafter ends?

 

 

Hmm. Two thoughts:

1. It is a trussed roof with one hipped end. The main rafter and jack rafter ends do not have a consistent size so that could look a little odd.
2. I assume I would have to shape some wood above the facing bricks to stop the wind, birds and insects getting into the attic space.