Might be a really daft question this but.... Old Victotian houses with solid walls don't have fascia boards. Why do new houses need fascia boards? What's the advantage of them? Seems to me better off not having them as less to maintain!
Why don't Victotian houses have fascia boards?
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They don't do they!!
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Damn some of those are ugly
Yes if you don't mind damp and leaky houses, progress I think they call it.
A rather sweeping statement!
Cut brick gables and corbelled brick eaves details are evident on modern and old houses alike and is not age related.
The choice to use a timber fascia or barge detail is a design issue. It makes fitting gutter simpler at the eaves and gives homeowners somewhere to fix the fairy lights at Christmas.
The choice to use a timber fascia or barge detail is a design issue. It makes fitting gutter simpler at the eaves and gives homeowners somewhere to fix the fairy lights at Christmas.
OP, Have you never seen Victorian Gothic barge boards and fascias - they have a filigree fretwork imitating the stonework in Gothic style churches?
Typically fitted to tart up cottages, and often the lodge at Victorian cemetaries.
To my mind, they are the Victorian equivalent of modern Faux stone cladding.
Many older USA houses are fascia & gutterless, and have difficulties with splash and rainwater discharge on the ground surface. Lack of guttering is actually an environmental concern. Modern Codes dont usually allow it.
Fascias obviously protect the rafter tails and support guttering (try changing a gutter rafter strap), they also give a "pleasing" finish to what could be a messy building detail.
However, i think that your question is a good one - we should sometimes question the obvious.
Typically fitted to tart up cottages, and often the lodge at Victorian cemetaries.
To my mind, they are the Victorian equivalent of modern Faux stone cladding.
Many older USA houses are fascia & gutterless, and have difficulties with splash and rainwater discharge on the ground surface. Lack of guttering is actually an environmental concern. Modern Codes dont usually allow it.
Fascias obviously protect the rafter tails and support guttering (try changing a gutter rafter strap), they also give a "pleasing" finish to what could be a messy building detail.
However, i think that your question is a good one - we should sometimes question the obvious.
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