Rogues Gallery
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We have been in the home improvement industry for well over 25 years, and this incident below has totally shocked us.

A very well known local window company carried out this so called fascia replacement work on a pair of semi detached homes in a very popular suburb of Derby.

The initial request came in whilst we were refurbishing a house a few doors down, the homeowner enquired if we could help alleviate a water drainage problem "The water isn't draining away properly and I've contacted the company responsible who say there isn't a problem,"   once on site and we inspect the work, it's quite evident where the problem lies, the running outlet that feeds the downpipe is fixed too high, so the water will never drain away, so we arrange with the customer to rectify the problem, whilst carrying out the work we notice there are no air vents installed, and upon further inspection we notice there's no eaves guard or bird protector installed in fact the job is now looking quite amateurish,  however it gets worse as the picture below shows

what we have here is asbestos waste from another job placed under the row of tiles, quite unacceptable and illegal, the thickness of the fascia board can also be noted around 12mm, nearly half the size of ours!

Below is the standard of the joints,  simply a piece of plastic roughly cut and bent into place

As there are no satisfactory methods of joining this awful product, here is a typical bodge!

Note the extra downpipe installed into the aluminium gutter, as there is no suitable outlet connector for continuous aluminium gutters the downpipe is simply placed into a hole and sealed with silicone !

The gutter is very flimsy so numerous brackets are required to fix it to the fascia board, as you can see below, which in turn makes it really hard to clean out, and as this type of gutter has to installed absolutely level (ie no fall / slope), we can see after a couple of years debris already building up

Here you can see the flimsy side of the product and all the fixing brackets

Why have other companies fascia boards and guttering changed colour?

This is mainly do to inferior products, it is essential to make sure you see the the BBA (British Board of Agrément) certificate when choosing the company who carries out  your roofline refurbishment

Salmon pink fascia's as there known in the trade!!

In the example above we can see the discolouration, have a look at the top where the centre motif has fallen off, the board is still white, this is do to the surface being shielded from the sun by the motif.  When our fitters removed these faded boards they found wooden fascias beneath that were full of decay as the firm who did this job simply  over clad the original wood, very cheap and quick to do and unfortunately a very common practice.

One half yellow one half white!

In this dreadful example we can see one side has remained white whereas the opposite side has yellowed. Here the firm has purchased a reject batch of products, very tempting when its a knock down price!

Yellow and white guttering!

Here we can see that the guttering has yellowed, note the gutter brackets and corner joint have stayed white, pity the firm who carried out this job didn't buy  the materials from a BBA approved source!
 

Yellow fascia with a white streak!

Can you see the white streak in the middle of the fascia board and the white corner trimmings? clearly a sign of inferior products

Salmon pink fascia!

Another salmon pink fascia board, with the gable end that faces north remaining white!

Yellow fascia's and cladding!

Truly  diabolical jobs, on not one but two properties, as shown in more detail below, notice the shiplap cladding that's turned yellow whereas the other remains white, clearly no consistence in the manufacturing process here!
Remember your biggest ever investment is your home, why take a chance and spoil it for a few pounds saved on the refurbishment?

Hanging eaves guard flapping in the wind!

Here the so called fascia fitting team have pushed a thin strip of plastic under the 1st row of tiles to try and fool the home owner, the correct way is to remove 2 rows of tiles and install purpose made eaves guard, as we do. (click here to see the correct procedure)

Just a few wrong ways to construct a box end gable corner

In the picture above the company who have carried out this job clearly are not used to doing corners, they have simply stuck pieces of fascia board together in an attempt to construct the corner detail, compare this with the way we do it below, and also note how we have re-pointed the gable end; (new cement between the tiles and the fascia board)

Want a nice neat corner?

Here you can clearly see the damage done to the existing timber fascia board by the cheap method of over cladding the fascia boards,  the wooden fascia was completely saturated and the wet had penetrated to the timber joist behind. A full inspection of the surrounding joists was therefore required to ensure no further damage had been done... who have been warned !!!

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