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There has been a huge increase in the number of appointments being made to replace soffits and fascias. Probably for two reasons. The first being that on some properties it may be the only improvement left to do, the second being due to the crash of the housing market. People are improving rather than moving, so soffits and fascias, especially the old rotting timber ones, are usually high on the list of things to replace.
The problem with roofline jobs, as I’ve said before, is that there are a lot of cowboys, gypsies and one-man-bands that are under-cutting jobs to get the work by not pricing for scaffolding for example. Or just as bad, over-cladding. There will be a lot of properties in the future that are going to have big problems with damp and rot in the roof. The more reputable firms and expert companies are losing a lot of jobs to these idiots.
