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Fascia Board Repair in Gretna, LA

Big Easy Roofing repairs and replaces fascia boards across Gretna and Jefferson Parish. A rotten fascia is rarely the original fault. Something has been wetting that board for a long time, and replacing the timber without finding out what will buy you the same repair again.

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$300 to $700Estimated per section
City permitCan apply on its own
Find the causeOr it comes back
Never cap rotThe common bad repair

Gretna fascia board repair at a glance

Replacing a rotten section of fascia is estimated at $300 to $700, the same figure as the fascia line on our Gretna gutter repair page. What decides whether it lasts is not the carpentry, it is what was wetting the board, and inside the city limits there is a permit question to settle first.

Estimated per section

$300 to $700

Taking the gutter section down, cutting out and replacing the rotten fascia, repainting and rehanging. Two to four hours. Call Big Easy Roofing on (504) 800-8196 and we will look before quoting.

Who permits the work

City or parish, by boundary

Fascia is the unusual one. The City of Gretna Building Department page names soffit and fascia among the work that requires a permit on Type V unprotected construction, so inside the city limits this can be a permitted job on its own. Outside them it is Jefferson Parish. We settle the position with 740 2nd Street before work starts.

A full elevation

$900 to $2,400

Where the rot runs along most of a run rather than sitting in one or two bays, the gutter comes down as a whole and the board is replaced in lengths. Priced by the foot and agreed before starting.

What it carries

The gutter, and the roof edge

The fascia closes the ends of the rafter tails and gives the roof edge a straight line to finish against. Hidden gutter hangers screw into it, so a full gutter of water in a heavy downpour is hanging off that board.

The repair to refuse

Capping over rot

Wrapping a soft board in aluminium coil makes it look finished. It also traps the moisture against timber that now has no way of drying, and hides it from the next person to look. Rotten timber comes out before anything is wrapped.

Warranty

Workmanship on the replacement

Our workmanship warranty on the timber we replace, the paint or finish on it, and the gutter we take down and rehang.

Every figure on this page is an estimate, not a quote, and is subject to Big Easy Roofing sign off. Cost and timescale depend on size, pitch, access, weather, materials and whatever is found once work starts, so call Big Easy Roofing on (504) 800-8196 and we will come out and give you an estimate for your own roof.

Fascia is the board running horizontally along the lower edge of a roof, closing off the ends of the rafters and giving the whole edge a straight line to finish against. It is doing three jobs at once. It closes the roof structure off from weather and wildlife, it gives the gutter something to hang from, and together with the soffit underneath it forms the boxed in eave that a great many houses here have.

It also sits in the wettest six inches of the entire building. Everything the roof sheds passes it, everything the gutter fails to catch runs over it, and the air around it is humid for most of the year. So fascia rot is common, and it is common precisely because it is downstream of several other things going wrong. That is why the useful part of this job is diagnosis rather than carpentry. Cutting out a soft board and fitting a new one is straightforward work. Working out why that board went soft is what determines whether you are paying for it once or every few years.

What to replace the board with and what each choice costs you later

Four realistic options, and the right answer depends on how much of the run is coming off and whether the cause has been dealt with. The table is about what each one does over time rather than what it looks like on the day it is fitted.

MaterialWhat it isEstimated costWhat to know
Primed and painted woodLike for like replacement in timber$300 to $700 per sectionMatches what is already there, takes paint well, and needs the paint keeping up
PVC or composite boardA synthetic board that does not rotAdds roughly a thirdWill not rot whatever wets it. Moves more with temperature, so the fixing detail matters
Wood capped in aluminium coilNew timber with a metal wrap over itAdds a little to new timberAcceptable over sound new wood. Never over anything soft
Aluminium cap over the existing boardWrapping what is already thereCheapest todayThe repair to refuse where there is any rot. It traps water and hides the evidence

Estimated ranges, not quotes, and the per section fascia figure is the same one that appears on our Gretna gutter repair page rather than a second set of numbers. Capping is a finish, not a repair: over sound new timber it is a reasonable way to reduce maintenance, and over a board that is already soft it converts a visible problem into an invisible one. Call (504) 800-8196 and we will show you what the board is actually doing before anything is covered up.

Gretna names fascia in its own permit list

This is the most useful thing on the page. The City of Gretna Building Department page names soffit and fascia among the work that requires a permit on Type V unprotected construction, which is the classification ordinary wood framed housing normally falls into. Worth settling before work starts.

The City lists it in its own words

Not buried in the roofing rules

The Building Department page names work requiring a permit in one running string: construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, demolish, change replacing soffit and/or fascia (only) on all Type V unprotected construction. Fascia is named there directly, separately from anything to do with a roof covering.

What Type V unprotected means

In plain terms

It is the construction classification for a building framed in combustible material, commonly timber, with no fire resistance rating applied to the structural elements. That is the class ordinary wood framed housing normally falls into, which is why this rule reaches a great many houses rather than a handful.

The sentence lists repair as well as replacing

So we ask rather than assume

That one string runs several verbs together, repair among them, before it reaches the soffit and fascia clause. Whether repair reaches a single spliced section, or whether the clause only bites on a replacement, is not settled by the published page, so we do not guess it. It is a phone call to the Building Department at 740 2nd Street on 504.363.1563, and we make it before the timber is ordered.

Outside the city limits it is Jefferson Parish

And the postcode will not tell you

A 70053, 70056 or 70058 mailing address covers both the incorporated city and the unincorporated parish around it, so the boundary decides who issues a permit rather than the postmark. The City rule above applies inside the limits, and the parish handles addresses outside them.

What this changes about how the job is booked

On most trim work the sequence is look, price, do. Here there is a step in front of it, because if the address sits inside the city limits and the work reads as replacement, the permit is part of the job rather than an afterthought. We establish that before quoting rather than after, which is the difference between a fixed price and a surprise.

The City runs its intake through the MyGovernmentOnline portal at mgoconnect.org, and the Building Department is at 740 2nd Street. The published page does not put a residential fee against fascia work, so we ask the office for the current figure for your scope rather than publishing one here that we cannot cite.

The historic district adds a step ahead of the permit

The City Building Department page states that all exterior changes visible from public right of way must also be reviewed and approved by the Historic District Commission, receive a Certificate of Appropriateness and obtain the necessary building permits before work commences. A fascia board along a street elevation is about as visible as exterior work gets.

So on a historic district address the order is Commission first, then permit, then work. It is worth knowing before a start date is agreed, because it lengthens the front of the job rather than the work itself, and it is the part nobody expects on what looks like a piece of joinery.

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Three usual causes of fascia rot and why finding them is the whole job

Fascia rot has three usual causes and each one is a different fix on a different part of the roof. Replacing the timber without settling which one it was is the reason this job gets done twice on the same house, a few years apart, by two different people.

The gutter is overflowing, blocked, sagging or undersized

Water coming over the front edge of a gutter runs straight down the face of the fascia, and water backing up behind it sits against the top of the board. Both of those keep timber wet for hours after the rain has stopped, which is the condition rot needs.

A gutter that overflows however often it is cleared is undersized rather than dirty, and that is a capacity question set by the roof area draining into each run against the rainfall rate. Our Gretna gutter pages cover the sizing and the priced defects in full, so the numbers live in one place.

The drip edge is missing or too short

Drip edge is the metal along the eave that throws water off the roof and into the gutter rather than letting it curl back under the covering onto the fascia. When it is absent, or fitted the wrong side of the underlayment, the board is being wetted from above every time it rains and nothing about that is visible from the ground.

It is common enough on older housing that our Gretna roof inspection page checks the eave line for it as a standing item. Where it turns out to be the cause, the fix is a flashing job at the eave rather than more timber, and it is priced on our flashing page rather than here.

The eave never dries out

Rot needs timber to stay wet rather than simply to get wet. In a dry climate a board that takes a soaking dries before it matters. On the west bank the humidity is high for most of the year and the eave is often shaded, so the drying half of that cycle is slow and a boxed eave with no moving air through it barely dries at all.

Where insulation has been pushed out over the soffit vents, that cavity stops breathing and the fascia and soffit are the timber sitting inside it. The intake side of that is ventilation work rather than joinery, and our Gretna roof ventilation page covers the soffit intake and the ratio behind it.

Big Easy Roofing Process

Three steps, and the first one is about the gutter, the drip edge and the soffit rather than about the board everybody is looking at.

A roofer inspecting a rotten fascia board behind a gutter at the eaves of a house
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01

Find the cause, and settle the permit question

The gutter checked for fall, blockage and capacity, the drip edge checked for presence and orientation, and the soffit intake checked from inside where we can get to it. Where the address sits inside the city limits we confirm the permit position with 740 2nd Street at the same time.

02

Price the repair and the cause separately

The fascia work as one line and whatever was wetting it as another, so you can see what each costs and decide. We will say plainly if we think replacing the board alone will not last, rather than quoting it quietly.

03

Cut out, replace, finish and rehang

Gutter section taken down, rotten timber cut back to sound wood, rafter tails checked while the board is off, new fascia fitted and finished, and the gutter rehung on new hangers. Call (504) 800-8196 to book the look.

Everything else we do in Gretna

The rest of the Big Easy Roofing services available in Gretna, each with its own page and written estimate. Fascia sits at the junction of three of them: the gutter hangs off it, the drip edge should be directing water past it, and the soffit intake below it decides whether the eave ever dries out.

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