Gable Roof Barge Board

It s just as quick to finish the top of a gable off with pointing or render.

Gable roof barge board.

Barge boards while fascias and soffits support the guttering of a property barge boards are attached to a gable to provide added strength protection and aesthetics. They appear as an inverted v under the edges of the roof verge protecting the exposed materials much like a fascia. The picture above shows the plan view of a gable roof. Bargeboard probably from medieval latin bargus or barcus a scaffold and not from the now obsolete synonym vergeboard is a board fastened to the projecting gables of a roof to give them strength protection and to conceal the otherwise exposed end of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof to which they were attached.

The ridiculous thing is there s no reason to have barge boards at all. Bargeboard is exterior house trim usually ornately carved that is attached along the roof line of a gable. Ladder trusses are made up using four noggins bridging at each corner to support a rafter outside the building. Fascia soffit and barge board importance.

That rafter outside forms the overhang for the barge boards to fix to and so the soffit boards and ventilation are continuous all the way around the structure. What s the point of sticking exposed softwood boards on the most.