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Fascia Board Repair in Hammond, LA

Big Easy Roofing repairs and replaces fascia boards across Hammond and Tangipahoa 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 or parishPermits confirmed
Find the causeOr it comes back
Never cap rotThe common bad repair

Hammond fascia board repair at a glance

Replacing a rotten section of fascia is estimated at $300 to $700, the same figure we put on fascia rot behind a gutter elsewhere in the Hammond service set. What decides whether it lasts is not the carpentry, it is what was wetting the board.

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

The state reroofing rule at R.S. 37:3737(I) is about roof construction and reroofing, which fascia work is not. The City of Hammond has a general residential renovation and repair permit line, so a significant fascia scope may need a permit under that even where the state rule does not. Inside the city limits that is the City of Hammond Building Department at 219 E Robert Street. Outside them it is Tangipahoa Parish. We settle the position with the office 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 carries across from the fascia rot line on our other gutter and repair pages 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.

Fascia sits between two rules and neither of them names it directly

This is the useful thing on the page. The state reroofing rule does not reach fascia, and the City of Hammond permit form does not name fascia separately either, but the City does have a general renovation and repair line that may catch a significant scope. Worth settling before work starts.

The state rule is about roofing

Not about fascia

La. R.S. 37:3737(I) requires a permit and inspection on roof construction and reroofing. Fascia work is neither. On the state rule alone, fascia sits outside that requirement, which is where a great many roofers stop reading.

The City has its own general renovation line

Which is where fascia may land

The City of Hammond building permit application publishes a general RESIDENTIAL Renovation/Repair/Roofing fee line, at $30 up to $10,000 of construction value and $5 per thousand above that. A significant fascia scope may fall under that general line even where the state reroofing rule does not, and the office is where a specific scope gets settled. We do not read the line into your job on our own.

One phone call before the timber is ordered

Rather than after

On most trim work the sequence is look, price, do. Here there is a step in front of it, because if a scope reads as replacement rather than a small splice, the City of Hammond Building Department on (985) 277-5655 is where the permit position for that scope is confirmed. That call establishes fee, timeline and paperwork before we quote rather than after.

Outside the city limits it is Tangipahoa Parish

And the postcode will not tell you

A Hammond 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. Where the address is outside the limits it is the Tangipahoa Parish Permit Office on (985) 542-2117, which uses the 2021 building codes and the 2020 NEC effective 1 January 2023.

What this changes about how the job is booked

We establish the permit position 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, the same portal Jefferson Parish and East Baton Rouge use, and the Building Department is at 219 E Robert Street weekdays 8am to 4pm.

The published fee table is a fee table, not a scoping rule. Whether a specific scope of fascia work reads as a permitted renovation or as too small for one is a question we ask the office rather than answer ourselves, and the answer may vary with the scope.

Where an address sits inside a City overlay

The Hammond building permit application names five overlays including a Historic District and a Downtown Development District among its overlay options. A fascia board along a street elevation is about as visible as exterior work gets, so where an address may sit inside one of those overlays it is worth checking the position for that address with the City rather than assuming.

The specific review path for an overlay address does not sit on the form itself, so we ask the City rather than reading a process out of the form. That is the same treatment applied on every Hammond page that touches an exterior detail.

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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 Hammond 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 Hammond 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. In inland Tangipahoa 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 Hammond 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 and the scope reads as replacement we confirm the permit position with 219 E Robert 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 Hammond

The rest of the Big Easy Roofing services available in Hammond, 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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