Replacement fascias and soffits are the features that are most often overlooked by people as they do not inspire the same glamour or hold the same attractiveness as windows, doors and conservatories. Of course this is because the fascia boards are not as immediately visible as the other features mentioned, but they are nevertheless a particularly important aspect of the home and they need careful attention if your home is to look its best and drain most efficiently. As with all our other products fascias and soffits (more specifically fascia and soffit boards) are made from PVCU and so do rot or flake the way a wooden fascia would. Also fascia boards have a much longer life span than their wooden counterparts and so will provide you with security and peace of mind for years to come. Finally they save you money on repeatedly painting your home to improve the appearance and can even add value to your property.

You only need to go out onto the street to compare the aesthetic and physical quality of our work with that on other houses whose fascias and soffits are derived from timber and will eventually decay. Fascias and soffits, or as they are increasingly being called, replacement roofline systems, instantly but subtly improve the look of a property while providing a cost effective maintenance free solution to traditional timbers.

As with all of our other products, we appreciate that there is an aesthetic aspect to be considered and so our fascia boards used in the roofline systems are available in wood-grain and coloured finishes to meet individual taste and complement the look of your home. Our perspective on the issue is that it is always better to have full replacement of timber fascias and soffits rather than merely covering them up as doing the latter has severely negative aesthetic repercussions. Therefore our specification includes that all timbers should be replaced with heavy duty fascia board, among other things. Replacement fascia boards do not require backing timber, but simply nail onto joists, and while cover boards can be effective, as has been mentioned the aesthetics can often be displeasing and the lifespan, while still ten years, is low compared to that of completely new replacement boards from our company.

Box ends are the part of the roofline at the bottom of a gable end and they are important to get the best results visually for your new or replacement fascias and soffits. Box end section is a double-edged fascia board that is often twice the size of a standard fascia board. If all this is getting slightly technical, you can see examples of everything discussed here in the various other sections regarding fascias, soffits, fascia boards and everything else to do with roofline systems.

Avoid The Cowboys!

Not all companies offering their services will be as committed to fair trading as we are. The following pointers may help you to identify the ‘rogue traders’.

1. Never ever accept offers to have work carried out by random callers (door knockers). Door-knockers will usually offer to do a small job “I just happened to notice you have a tile missing etc.” but will often wreck a roof before you know it and demand exorbitant sums to repair it - badly. Avoid them at all cost!

2. Never be persuaded to let someone start work immediately (if they have no scheduled work to do and are able to start immediately there will be a reason for that!). Their main objective is to prevent you from receiving written quotations from reputable firms.

3. Insist on having a detailed written quotation for all work, large or small, and take some time to consider it before committing yourself.

4. Ignore offers of large discounts (20%, 30% - sometimes as much as 80 % !), they usually mean that the work was overpriced in the first place - and until the person offering it saw the horror in your eyes at the first figure they mentioned that’s what they would have made you pay! We offer an OAP Discount of 5% as a gesture to our senior citizen customers.

5. Never be induced to accept a quotation there and then - this is another means of preventing you comparing quotations.

6. Ask whether sub-contractors will be used - remember that a ‘subbie’ will be working to a price (a lot less than you will be paying) and will want to be away to the next job as quickly as possible!

7. Ask for references & about qualifications - a recent survey showed that up to 80% of Companies undertaking building works employ completely unqualified staff !.

8. Ask for details of Liabilty Insurance - your own home insurance may not cover you for damage or injury caused by a contractor working on your property.

Here’s some examples of the kind of bodged work you need to avoid - the ‘firm’ who knocked on the old ladys’ house where this was done said that they had years of experience! We had to strip the entire installation and do it again.