Fascias & Soffits in Reading

Look up at the eaves along most Reading streets and you can tell how long it has been since anyone painted them. On the Victorian and Edwardian terraces the timber fascias are often original or decades-old replacements, and once the paint goes the wood soaks up water, splits and turns soft. Inter-war semis in Caversham and Tilehurst and post-war homes in Southcote and Whitley have the same problem, just a little later. We are about 7 miles away in Wokingham and replace fascias and soffits across RG1, RG2, RG4 and RG30.

The old boards come down first so the rafter ends behind them can be checked, because rot rarely stops at the board. New fascias are then fixed straight and level along the eaves to give the gutters a solid line, and new soffits close the gap back to the wall, keeping the eaves ventilated where the house needs it.

Because the gutters are fixed to the fascia, they come down and go back up on the new boards. If they are past it too, our Reading guttering page covers replacing them at the same time. For the roof above, see our Reading roof repairs page, and our Roofers in Reading page has everything else we do locally.