Has anyone had aluminium gable barge boards, fascias and soffits installed?

We have marine plywood 18mm substrate.

 We are installing the aluminium Kytun Dry Verge on a natural slate roof.  The plan is to install the Kytun Dry Verge and slate the roof first then use and use 3 or 4mm spacers on the Kytun Dry Verge to maintain a gap in order to push up the aluminium facias underneath the verge. 

It would be enormously helpful to hear from others who have had aluminium installed.

We are looking at Kytun AluSwift and Guttercrest.

We are aiming for longevity and hopefully zero maintenance. 

We are looking at Lindab Magestic for the gutters.

Many thanks

I'm doing this right now - doing it myself not getting it installed. I suspect I'm no use to you anyway as no experience of how it will perform over time. Like you my hope is virtually zero maintenance for the foreseeable future. Slight difference in that I don't have a ply substrate. I attached short treated vertical hangers to the ends of the Trusses/rafters and screwed the fascias to them. (Ply would have been easier if the ends of the trusses/rafters were uniform and vertical but sadly they were anything but!!) I'm using some of the wood that we're cladding part of the house with for the soffits. Did consider aluminium for that too but preferred the aesthetic of the wood mix in our context.

I used Kytun Dry Verge aluminium with Spanish slate on the roof (professional roofer used - I just laboured!). The product looks good to my eye, but is very easily damaged and about 1/3 of the lengths bought were damaged when I unboxed them and had to be replaced. I've since heard of a specialist roofing supplier who will no longer supply Kytun as that was too often their experience.

As you say the Kytun was positioned with a ~5mm stand off so that I could later push the Fascia up behind. I used Alutec Evoke Fascia. Gutters are ARP Aluminium deep flow.

Fascias all done but only able to fit the gutter brackets as the scaffold uprights are too close to fit the gutter itself. I've had enough of paying for changes to the scaff for every task that crops up so I'll wait 'til it can go and clip the actual gutters in off a ladder!

I am interested in how people actually do this or get it done and what suppliers and process they go through. I continue to have temporary fascia/capping made out of proplex ! Temporary Heath Robinson style plastic downpipes.

I have a mix of timber and plywood edges to cover with aluminium and feel the architect did me no favours by designing a bespoke edging to my single ply membrane flat roof.

Although there seem to be a number of suppliers there seems to be a dearth of installers for aluminium rooflines. I was originally down to have a timber strip wood soffit on my overhang but could never actually get a quote out of a local timber specialist. Have now decided to have something man made on the soffit to minimise maintenance and uncontrolled colour change.

One of the issues is also how do you achieve secret fixings as I don't fancy a finish pock marked with screw heads.

You see a lot of aluminium rooflines as part of contemporary build styles but I have the impression that a lot of tradespeople are only really familiar with traditional finishing and UPVC/plastic. Is installation a job for a carpenter ? There doesn't appear to be any specific trade for this type of work.

Well I prefer to do stuff myself - its easy enough if you're a competent DIYer. My roofer did pass on details of a chap he did some work with - but of no interest to me so I never contacted them. Website

As you say sourcing the materials is easy enough.

If you want aluminium with no fixings, I believe it can be done with silicone adhesives (sold by the same companies) and there are the inevitable YouTube vids to show how. I chose to use colour coordinated screws - which you can obvs see but are discrete enough not to stand out too much.

If its in the wood strips, then I was advised by the supplier against fixing though the hidden part of the profile as that would be pretty weak. But using these screws they self drill and bury their own heads and again are discrete enough to my eye - though not invisible by any means.

Thanks MPx, Your aluminium work looks exceptional.  Beautiful against the timber.  Good on you for taking on the job because installation costs are vast.  It’s good to hear that you too used ‘spacers’ to facilitate pushing up the alu fascias as that information has allowed us to get on with the tiling.

Did you use secret bonding fasteners?  Disappointing to hear Kytun send out damaged goods.
Thank you for sharing, very much appreciated.