Fascias and Soffits
Fascias and soffits are the boards that cover the ends of the roof rafters where they sit on top of the outer wall of a house.
Fascia is an architectural term for a vertical frieze or band under a roof edge, or which forms the outer surface of a cornice, visible to an observer.
Typically consisting of a wooden board, uPVC or non-corrosive sheet metal, many of the non-domestic fascias made of stone form an ornately carved or pieced together cornice, in which case the term fascia is rarely used.
The word fascia derives from Latin fascia meaning "band, bandage, ribbon, swathe". The term is also used, although less commonly, for other such band-like surfaces like a wide, flat trim strip around a doorway, different and separate from the wall surface.
The horizontal "fascia board" which caps the end of rafters outside a building may be used to hold the rain gutter. The finished surface below the fascia and rafters is called the soffit or eave.
In classical architecture, the fascia is the plain, wide band (or bands) that make up the architrave section of the entablature, directly above the columns. The guttae or drip edge was mounted on the fascia in the Doric order, below the triglyph. The term fascia can also refer to the flat strip below the cymatium. "A soffit is an exterior or interior architectural feature, generally the horizontal, aloft underside of any construction element. Its archetypal form, sometimes incorporating or implying the projection of beams, is the underside of eaves (to connect a retaining wall to projecting edge(s) of the roof)."
Usually, fascias are made from wooden boards or from a form of plastic and are used at the joint of the roof and the walls. A horizontal fascia board is used to cap the end of rafters on the outside of a building and is often used to keep guttering in place.
The soffit is the underside of any construction element so when referring to roof construction, this can be the exposed undersurface of a section of a roof eave that overhangs on the exterior of the house. It can also refer to the material forming a ceiling that runs from the top of the house’s exterior wall to the outer edge of the roof.
Fascia and soffit gives your eaves a professional finish and is the perfect mounting surface for a neat guttering installation.
Read more at wikipedia.org/wiki/Soffit and wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia_(architecture)The News List
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