Fascia, soffit and guttering replacement in Upton

Where the fault really is. A gutter that has pulled away from the wall almost never has anything wrong with the gutter. The brackets are screwed into the fascia, and if that board has softened they have nothing to hold on to.

Peeling and blown paint is the early sign on timber and a screwdriver settles it. If the fascia is solid, then you are looking at the smaller faults: a run sagging between brackets, a leaking joint at a union, a gutter that has tipped back and overflows behind instead of over the front, or an outlet packed with moss and debris washed down off the tiles.

The strip. Gutter down, then fascia and soffit off, and for the first time in years the rafter feet, the wall plate and the bottom edge of the underlay can be seen. Soft rafter ends get cut back and spliced with new timber. A felt support tray goes in so the underlay drips into the gutter rather than down the back of the new board, and a tilt fillet lifts the bottom course of tiles so they sit right over the run. Capping plastic over rotten timber hides all of it and holds the damp there, which is why we take the old boards off. Over dry, sound timber, capping is a fair and cheaper job and we will price it.

What goes back. uPVC fascia and vented soffit, and the gutter chosen to suit the roof. Half round for an ordinary length, ogee for a squarer face, square, or deepflow where one run takes the water off a large slope and a standard profile will spill in heavy rain however clean it is. Timber renewed in timber, cast iron re-bedded and repainted, or aluminium on a long exposed run are all sensible on the right Upton building. Brackets go back at proper centres and the run is set to a fall, since a gutter hung level looks correct from the pavement and stands full of water all year.

Down to the ground. Outlets, unions, hoppers, downpipe clips and shoes are renewed or refixed, and we follow the rainwater to see where it discharges. A downpipe into a gully choked with silt, or one over a soakaway that stopped taking water long ago, keeps a wall damp and stained no matter how new the gutter above it is. That is the check most quotes never mention and it costs nothing to make.

Ventilation and nuisances. Vented soffits, or an over fascia vent strip where the board is too narrow, keep an air gap running through the eaves and into the loft, which is what stops condensation on the underside of the felt in winter. Birds behind a lifted soffit and wasps in a gable end both get dealt with first, and the run and outlets are cleared before we take the platform down.

Thomas comes round, walks the whole roofline with you and prices it himself. On Upton's sixties and seventies houses that often means original timber fascias painted many times over, or an early round of plastic capped straight over the old wood. The soffit board is checked before anything is cut, because on a house of that age it can be asbestos cement.

The quote takes each run separately: access, stripping the old boards and gutter, the new fascia, soffit and any bargeboard, the gutter itself, the outlets and downpipes, and taking the waste away. The old comes down and the new goes up under the one written quote.

An Upton bungalow is worked from a tower that moves along with us. A terraced row needs care at each end, where your gutter runs into next door's, and we explain the join before starting. Offcuts and old boards leave with us daily. If the rafter feet behind the fascia are soft, a photograph and a price come to you before any new timber goes in.

Renewing the roofline like for like is repair, so there is no planning application and nothing for building control. There is no conservation area over Upton, so the colour and profile are yours to pick. At one of the four listed entries, listed building consent is needed before a board comes off, and Dorset Council holds that list.

Phone, do not use the form. A gutter off its brackets, a downpipe snapped at the bend, or a fascia you can push a finger into will send the next downpour down the face of the wall and into the brickwork. Keep people from standing under a hanging length, and do not lean a ladder on it.

On the first visit we support the run and get the water discharging somewhere sensible, then price the proper repair once we can see how far the rot goes. Everyday bookings run Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. With something hanging, call us, and if it rings out we phone you back as soon as we can.

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A lot of the housing in Upton is terraced or semi detached, and on those the eaves gutter usually runs the whole length of the block in one continuous line. There is no joint at your boundary and no obvious point where your half stops. That has two practical consequences that catch people out.

The first is fall. A gutter falls to an outlet, and on a terrace that outlet may well be at somebody else's end. Replacing only your section and setting it to its own fall can leave water sitting where the old run met the new one, which is why we would rather set the fall across the whole length even when only part of it is being paid for. The second is appearance. A new white section butted onto a tired one shows from an Upton pavement, and a different profile shows even more. Where a neighbour is thinking about the same work, doing it together shares the access, keeps the line consistent and is simply cheaper per house. We quote each address separately either way, so nobody has to sort the money out between them.

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