Once Welsh Oak left the first thing I did was get a Carpenter in to sort the eaves out and it soon become clear that the open eaves we wanted were not going to be easy as the Oak rafters are about  one third of the thickness of the softwood rafters and to make matters worse they are are on different levels.

The Oak rafters are all exposed so the plasterboard and 110mm of insulation is fixed on top of the rafters bringing the level up to the top of the softwood rafters that is fairly straight forward, the tricky bit is that the Oak rafters are set lower than the softwood so we will have to cut 30mm out of the softwood and fix some false Oak feet which will then level everything out and allow a fascia to be fixed to hide the insulation etc.

We will then fix a soffit at the top of the of the rafter thus giving a open eave that should appear to be Oak all the way through.

Well that is the plan anyway.

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