with that the rafters were set and it was incredibly exciting to see the final roof line of the building in real life after staring at a NUMBER_TOKENd model and building plans for months that said we were still far from being finished with the roof framing and next we got to work installing the blocking between each of the rafters and typically this area would be covered by the soffit but again we're going to have this area open with exposed rafter tails so this blocking needed to be added to close up the interior of the house we also ripped a matching angle on the top edge of the blocking so that it would butt up against the roof sheathing cleanly once we got all the blocking added between the rafters we went back and added collar ties at each rafter location and since this house will have cathedral ceilings through the majority of the areas these collar ties serve both to help hold the rafters tight to the ridge board but also help to resist the spreading force created by the downward pressure of the weight of the roof and this collar tie layout was specified by our architect and was actually contested by the building inspector since this specific layout isn't covered in the building codebook because of this i had an engineer take a look at the plans and stamp his approval on the roof design and this is something you'll likely need to do if you decide to go with this type of layout on your roof anyway before adding our fascia board to the end of the rafters we went ahead and snapped a chalk line so that we could trim any protruding rafters since this would cause the fascia board to be wavy eric whipped up a quick jig for marking the vertical line on the rafter tails where we'd need to cut them and this jig could then be aligned with the chalk line on the top surface and eric could then mark the vertical line using the jig finally he could cut any extra long rafter tails using a circular saw following the line he just marked we repeated this process on any of the other protruding rafter tails getting the ends of the tails all in line with each other and then we could move on to adding the fascia typically this board would be called the sub fascia since you'd have some kind of trim on the face of the board and soffit material on the underside but again we're going with an exposed rafter tail and soffit area because of this these fascia boards will serve as the finished surface so we wanted them to look as clean as possible to help with this we first squared up one edge of the boards which matched the look of the rafter tails more closely after ripping a square edge on one edge of the board we then tilted the blade to match the roof pitch and rip the other edge of the board with this angle next we could get the first board cut to length and i also went ahead and started two screws at each rafter location just to make it easier to drive the screws once i was up on the ladder as you can see there's a six inch overhang at the gable end of the roof and we accounted for this overhang when attaching the fascia allowing it to extend past the last rafter we attached the fascia with two three inch screws into each rafter tail and this allowed for some tweaking
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