How to Vinyl a Fascia

Vinyl siding gives a building the look of wood clapboard siding without the maintenance that is associated with the wooden covering. Vinyl siding is molded in color and therefore never needs painting. Of course, the siding is only one part of the job. There is window trim, door trim, soffit and fascia. The fascia is the vertical edge of a roof overhang that meets with the outer edge of the soffit, which is the horizontal piece on the underside of the overhang. Covering the fascia board with a vinyl cap will make it as maintenance-free as the vinyl siding.

Measuring tape
Chalk line
Tin snips
Color-matched aluminum nails
Hammer

Instructions

- 1
  Measure the width of the fascia board on the vertical edge of the roof overhang with a measuring tape from the bottom of the board to the top where the bottom course of shingles overhang it.
- 2
  Transfer the fascia board measurement to the widest side of a length of vinyl fascia cap. Make a mark at both ends of the cap. Connect the marks at each end by snapping a chalk line between them.
- 3
  Cut the vinyl fascia cap to width on the chalk line using tin snips.
- 4
  Hold a vinyl fascia cap -- which has a cross-section in the shape of an "L" -- into position on the fascia board with the cut side facing the top. Ensure the narrower of the two edges on the cap is at the underside of the fascia board.
- 5
  Slide the upper edge of the cap under the roof drip edge until the underside of the cap is flush with the underside of the fascia board.
- 6
  Secure the cap to the fascia board with color-matched aluminum nails spaced every 16 inches and driven in with a hammer. Be careful on the last strike that you do not damage the cap with the head of the hammer.
- 7
  Install another length of vinyl fascia cap in the same fashion, overlapping the previous piece by 3 inches. Cut the last cap at the end of the fascia board to length with tin snips.

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