Do I put the roof on first or fascia, soffits and bargeboards?

[Lincolnshire Ian]

This house building lark is tricky!! 

Our roofer doesn't do fascias, soffits, bargeboards and guttering - apparently that is a chippy's job! 

Its too late to change roofer - they are like hens teeth around here. Do we install the fascia, soffits, bargeboards and guttering before or after tiling the roof. 

Thanks everyone 

[Stratman]

I can tell you that our timber frame package company will be doing fascias and soffits before I get the roofer in. I guess this is normal.

[Lincolnshire Ian]

2 minutes ago, Stratman said:

I can tell you that our timber frame package company will be doing fascias and soffits before I get the roofer in. I guess this is normal.

That's a brilliant reminder - our timber frame company offered us the same option, but we didn't accept it (maybe should have!). 

[Dunc]

I think it's quite common to do this joinery first, but we haven't. Just need to make sure all the levels and overhangs are set correctly so that the roof covering drains in to the future gutter location, barge boards are covered by the overhang, etc. And that there is reasonably access under overhangs to be able to place fixings appropriately

[Big Jimbo]

having done both, i think it is easier to do facias and soffets first. Especially if you have to put in eaves vent trays etc.

[Susie]

This became the final straw for us with our builder he quoted for the roof but omitted the cost of the facias, soffits and barge boards, which also were not in the cost for the walls etc.  when quizzed on his reasoning for not including them it became apparent that the facias and barge boards are before the roof is slated.  We waved goodbye to the builder at this point and the roofer who also had a chippy took over and fitted the the facias and barge boards. the roofer fitted the Velux and the eaves vents. We fitted the soffits our selves after the roofer but note we are a bungalow, we just felt happier ensuring the roof insulation and insect mesh was spot on and our exterior wooden cladding could run up into the inside of the soffit and facia area. 
 

[FarmerN]

Builder did our soffits and facias  first. I wish he hadn’t! The facias were a tiny bit high , resulting in a bit too much kick up on the final slate.   We were meant to finish the gable overhang with an aluminium dry verge system. Because of the extra kick the straight aluminium verge kit would not go on  and we ended up with an unsealed gable verge.

As stated in an earlier post take great care on positioning of facia to ensure correct eaves drainage into gutter and to avoid excess kick on the final slate.

I still do not understand the desire of traditional slate roofers (or ours anyway) to reduce pitch on the  bottom slate.

If the bottom slate is supported by the facia as in our case it makes it very hard to change or renew facia at a latter date.

[nod]

You need to install facias and barge boards before your roofer starts

But leave the gutters off till he’s finished 

[Nick Laslett]

@Lincolnshire Ian, I feel it is somewhat dependent on roof type and tile choice. 
 

This is definitely a Chippies task and is an extension of the roof work. For our slate roof, the roofers just wanted the barge boards and tilting fillets in place. We also had quite large gable ladders, need those overhangs for the shading. 

The roofer will want to know the plan for the fascias. 

Believe it or not but the guttering is in the plumbers remit on new builds. They would do the calculations for the water run-off and drainage. Although lots of trades will fit the guttering. 

 

Edited Wednesday at 06:19 by Nick Laslett