Board Behind The Gutter

However more often than not water does get behind protective metal trim and the wood begins to rot.

Board behind the gutter.

Home centers sell a gutter apron in 10 ft. Soffit is the layer of wood vinyl or aluminum that extends from the bottom of the fascia to the top piece of your wall board. How to replace fascia wood under garage gutters. This can be frustrating and also creates a dangerous situation on porch steps during freez.

The gutter apron will prevent the dripping. Third it never gets any paint. It lives with some unique problems. A gutter apron is a bent piece of flashing that tucks up under the shingles and over the gutter.

If water is dripping behind your gutter it s probably because it was installed without any flashing over the back of the gutter. The soffit is the flat panel that covers the underside of the rafters between the back of the fascia and the outside of the house wall. In the end sooner rather than later you will need to replace your gutters once again. When fixing gutter brackets to cover boards the screws should go right through the cover board and into the timber board behind it to ensure a sound fixing.

First since it s always covered by a gutter it is never exposed to sunlight. The boards cover the rafter ends and sides at the rakes or. Facial boards are trim boards that mount to rafter ends underneath a roofs drip edge. If the decay is already there and you attach a new gutter to the compromised board it will start to fall off very soon.

Uninstall the gutter system from the fascia board you re replacing. The soffit board is the piece of timber or pvc that fits to the underside of the rafters closing the gap between the back of the rafter foot and the. Then locate the brackets underneath your gutter holding them in place and unscrew them so you can lift the gutter up and away from the fascia. Its top edge is tucked up under the shingles and its outside face is where the gutter is mounted.

Unscrew the gutters from behind your existing fascia board with an electric screwdriver. The board that rests behind your gutter is called a fascia board. Which piece is called the soffit board. Have rain water dripping out from between your facia and gutters.