Old cottage timber or pvc fascia?

fits

We are doing up a very old traditional cottage at present. It was thatched with a tin roof over it. We have reroofed it and put in fiber cement slates. ( couldn’t stretch budget to real slates ). Now we need to chose fascia. It would be a minimal fascia mostly hidden by aluminum half round gutter. Builder is advising pvc but I’m wondering about timber. We already have departed from traditional materials obviously with the slates but will pvc look terrible? We will be using lime render on exterior and timber double glazed windows.

garbo speaks

OP, it sounds like you are making some great and sensitive building material choices for the old building with the timber windows and lime render. In my opinion, sticking up a pvc fascia would ruin it!

fits

That’s my fear . But then it’s far from a purists job so far.

the_pen_turner

how about timber effect pvc.

i would never put timber as a fascia. way too much maintanance.

fits

the_pen_turner wrote: »

how about timber effect pvc.

i would never put timber as a fascia. way too much maintanance.

I wouldn’t consider timber effect. It’s either hardwood timber or Pvc we wil be going with.

the_pen_turner

if your going with proper hardwood then it should last a good while. you could even get it pressure treated

robp

the_pen_turner wrote: »

if your going with proper hardwood then it should last a good while. you could even get it pressure treated

Decent timber should easily last 40 plus years or more?

garbo speaks

robp wrote: »

Decent timber should easily last 40 plus years or more?

Agreed. It annoys me when people say "oh, timber needs to be maintained". A good, treated and painted timber will last for years, and as the OP said, its a cottage, so I can't imagine the fascia length would be that long. Even pvc fascia needs to be maintained and washed every so often.

PaudyW

garbo speaks wrote: »

Agreed. It annoys me when people say "oh, timber needs to be maintained". A good, treated and painted timber will last for years, and as the OP said, its a cottage, so I can't imagine the fascia length would be that long. Even pvc fascia needs to be maintained and washed every so often.

so it does need to be maintained, "a good treated and painted timber will last for years" untill you nail it to a roof and then nail a gutter of water to it, id go with narrow pvc slightly bigger then the gutter, will never need maintaining, and wont be seen

robp

PaudyW wrote: »

so it does need to be maintained, "a good treated and painted timber will last for years" untill you nail it to a roof and then nail a gutter of water to it, id go with narrow pvc slightly bigger then the gutter, will never need maintaining, and wont be seen

Timber does not always require paint to last decades. Its a myth that pvc doesnt degrade.

JonathonS

I think plastic fascias and soffits look terrible on any building. Apart from hardwood you should check out accoya and tricoya.

fits

We have decided to look into timber options. I just think the pvc would look wrong.

the_pen_turner

fits wrote: »

We have decided to look into timber options. I just think the pvc would look wrong.

Definitely look at tricoya. It's guaranteed for 40 years not to rot

garbo speaks

PaudyW wrote: »

so it does need to be maintained, "a good treated and painted timber will last for years" untill you nail it to a roof and then nail a gutter of water to it, id go with narrow pvc slightly bigger then the gutter, will never need maintaining, and wont be seen

Of course pvc needs maintenance.