Fascia, Soffit & Guttering Replacement | Tyrone & Fermanagh
Most people ring us about one thing. A gutter spilling over at the corner every time it rains hard. A soffit that has started to sag. A fascia board that has gone soft where the paint lifted a few winters ago. Nearly always, the honest answer is that the three are one system, and the cheapest version of the job is the one that deals with all three together. That is not a sales line. It is about access, and about what you find when you take the old gutter off.
What the three parts actually do
The fascia is the board fixed to the ends of the rafters along the eaves. It closes off the roof edge, and it carries the gutter brackets. Everything your guttering holds — water, wet leaves, the weight of it in a downpour — is hanging off that board.
The soffit is the board underneath, closing the gap between the fascia and the wall. It keeps birds, wasps and squirrels out of the roof space. If it is ventilated, it also lets the roof breathe.
The guttering catches the water coming off the roof and takes it away from the wall, into the downpipe and away.
Take one of the three out of the picture and the other two stop doing their job properly. A perfect new gutter fixed to a soft fascia will pull loose. A sound fascia behind a blocked, overflowing gutter will not stay sound for long.
Why doing them one at a time costs more
Access is a large part of any roofline job. Getting safely up to the eaves and along them is the same work whether you are replacing one board or the whole run. Pay for that once, not three times.
You cannot see the fascia until the gutter comes off. From the ground, a fascia can look fine. With the gutter down and the paint scraped, the picture is often different, particularly behind the brackets and at the corners where water sits. If the gutter has already been renewed, finding rot underneath means taking the new gutter back off.
Colours and profiles are easier to match on one visit than to chase eighteen months later, when a batch has changed or a profile has been discontinued.
And the order matters. New guttering fixed to old timber inherits the age of the timber. It is the timber, not the gutter, that usually fails first.
The rot has to come off — not be covered over
This is the single most useful question you can ask any installer, and it is worth asking before you ask about price.
Capping is quick. Old rotten timber is left in place and new uPVC is trimmed over the top of it. From the road it looks like a new roofline. Underneath, the rot carries on in the dark, out of sight, with nothing to stop it — and now nobody can see it happening.
We strip the old timber back and take it away, and the new uPVC goes onto sound new wood. It is more work. It is the difference between replacing a roofline and hiding one.
If a quote is noticeably cheaper than the others, this is usually where the difference sits. Ask.
What we fit, and what we do not
Fascia and soffit: uPVC. It does not need painting, and it does not rot. We do not offer aluminium fascia or soffit — it is not part of our range, whatever you may see advertised elsewhere.
Guttering: seamless aluminium, or uPVC. Seamless aluminium is formed on site from a continuous coil, cut to your actual roofline, so there are no mid-run joints. Joints are where guttering leaks. On a long straight run in particular, that matters.
We also do lead valleys, tile and slate edge work, roof repairs and full roof replacement, so if the roof edge turns out to be part of a bigger problem, you are not starting again with somebody new.
Five questions worth asking anyone who quotes you
1. Are you taking the old timber off, or fitting over it?
2. What type of boards are they using?
3. Is the guttering seamless or jointed, and where do the joints fall?
4. What are the gutter brackets fixing into?
5. Are you taking the old material away with you?
Any installer worth having will answer all five without hesitating.
Common questions
Do I have to do all three?
No. If the fascia and soffit are genuinely sound, a gutter on its own is a perfectly reasonable job, and we will tell you if that is what you are looking at. What we will not do is fit new guttering to timber that is not going to hold it.
Can you match my windows and doors?
Usually, yes. Bring us the colour you have and we will tell you honestly what we can match and what we cannot.
Do you work in the Republic?
Yes. We cover Tyrone, Fermanagh and Armagh, and across the border into the neighbouring counties.
How long does it take?
It depends entirely on the house — the length of the roofline, the access, and what we find when the old gutter comes down. We will tell you when we have looked at it, not before.
Getting a price
We have been doing rooflines in this part of the country for over thirty years, on everything from farm cottages to new self-builds.
Call Stephen on 07813 957568 for a free quote, with no obligation. If it is easier, send us a message or a couple of photographs of the roof edge and we will come back to you.
