How much do fascias and soffits cost? For a full uPVC replacement with new gutters, our prices start from £1,050 for a terraced house, £1,850 for a semi and £3,750 for a detached house. One national price guide for 2026 puts the same job at between £1,700 and £5,200 for most houses, depending on size.
Those are real figures, not a "call for a quote". We are Fletchers Rooflines, a father and son fitting rooflines around Wakefield, and we publish our starting prices. This guide sets out what the money buys, what pushes a price up, and how to read a quote so you are comparing the same job.
How much do fascias and soffits cost for each type of house?
These are our own starting prices for a full roofline replacement in uPVC.
- Terraced house: from £1,050. The front and back of a house in a row.
- Semi-detached house: from £1,850. The front, back and the one open side.
- Detached house: from £3,750. The roofline all the way round.
"From" means what it says. They are example prices, and your own comes once we have seen the house.
For a sense of the wider market, BestBuilders' 2026 cost guide, which draws on prices from 519 UK towns, gives these ranges for fascias and soffits with new gutters, before VAT:
- Terraced house: £1,700 to £2,600
- Semi-detached house: £2,700 to £4,000
- Detached house: £3,800 to £5,200 or more
- Detached bungalow: £1,500 to £3,000
The two lists are not measuring the same thing. Ours is where a price starts. Theirs is the spread that most jobs land in across the country. Read together, they tell you roughly what to expect before anyone has been round.
One of our corners: fascia, soffit, gutter, downpipe and dry verge, all new.
What is included in a full roofline replacement?
A price only means something when you know what is in it. Ours covers five things.
- Fascias. The board along the bottom edge of the roof. Your gutter is fixed to it.
- Soffits. The board underneath the fascia. It closes the gap back to the wall.
- Guttering. It carries the rain off your roof, and is set to a line so it falls the right way.
- Downpipes. They take the water from the gutter down to the drain.
- Dry verge. Interlocking caps along the gable edge, fixed on instead of bedded in mortar.
The old boards come off first and the rafter ends behind them are checked before anything new goes up. That matters for the price, as the next sections explain. You can see all five parts on our fascias and soffits page.
How much do fascias and soffits cost per metre?
Our published prices are by type of house. Some fitters quote by the metre instead, so the figure is worth knowing.
BestBuilders' guide puts a full uPVC replacement at around £90 to £150 per linear metre, supplied and fitted, in 2026. Capping, where a thin board is fixed over the old timber and nothing is stripped off, runs at about £60 to £100 a metre in the same guide.
To turn that into a total you need the length of your roofline. The same guide gives typical lengths:
- Terraced house: 14 to 22 metres
- Semi-detached house: 28 to 38 metres
- Detached house: 35 to 55 metres
If you have been given a per-metre price, ask how many metres it is being multiplied by. A garage, an extension or a bay window all add roofline.
Where does the money actually go?
Not on the boards. The Federation of Master Builders lists the materials on their own, as of January 2026, at about £9.60 a metre for uPVC fascia and £10.45 a metre for uPVC soffit. Timber fascia is cheaper to buy, at about £6 a metre, and aluminium dearer at £17.
Set those against a fitted price of £90 to £150 a metre and the picture is clear. Most of what you pay for is the work: getting up there safely, taking the old roofline off, and fitting the new one properly. That is also why uPVC is the usual choice even though timber costs less to buy. uPVC never needs painting.
How much do new gutters add?
We usually change the gutters with the fascias, because the gutter is fixed to the fascia. BestBuilders' guide puts new uPVC guttering at £30 to £70 a metre, or £300 to £700 on a typical house. Its house-by-house figures show the same gap: a terraced house is £1,400 to £2,200 for fascias and soffits alone, and £1,700 to £2,600 with new gutters.
Our starting prices already include the guttering and the downpipes, so there is nothing to add on for them.
What makes the price go up or down?
Four things move the figure on every job we price.
- How long the run is. A garage, an extension or a bay window all add roofline.
- How high the house is. Higher eaves take more to reach safely.
- The access. Whether ladders and staging will do, or it needs scaffolding.
- How far the rot has gone. What is behind the old boards is part of what we look at.
The first three can be seen from the ground. The fourth cannot always, and it is part of what we look at when we price a job.
The back of a house with the old boards off. What is behind them is part of the price.
Does scaffolding cost extra?
It depends on the house. Some rooflines can be reached safely from ladders and staging. Others need a scaffold, and that is a cost of its own.
The Federation of Master Builders' cost guide puts scaffolding at anywhere from £200 for one side of a bungalow to £2,600 for all four sides of a two-storey detached house. That is a wide range, and it is why access changes a price so much.
When you get a quote from anyone, ask one plain question: is the access in this figure, or on top of it? We tell you what access your house needs when we price the job.
Is capping cheaper than replacing fascias?
Yes. Capping is a smaller job, and the per-metre figures above show it. The Federation of Master Builders explains why: capping "avoids removing and disposing of the original timber, reducing labour time and material use".
The same guide goes on: "complete replacement is the better long-term investment, especially if the original boards are damaged." That is our view too. We take the old boards off before anything new goes up.
So when one quote is a good deal lower than the others, check whether it is for the same job. Ask whether the old boards are coming off or staying on.
What should a fascia and soffit quote tell you?
A quote worth comparing answers these without you having to ask twice.
- Full replacement or capping? Are the old boards coming off?
- What is included? Fascias and soffits only, or gutters, downpipes and dry verge as well?
- How will they reach it? Ladders and staging, or scaffolding, and is that in the price?
- Is VAT included? The national figures in this guide leave it out, so check the figure in front of you.
- What is the guarantee, and is it in writing? Ask how long it covers the workmanship and how long it covers the product.
- What happens to the old boards? Someone has to take them away.
Two quotes that are several hundred pounds apart can turn out to be two different jobs. Lining these answers up side by side shows you whether they are.
How long does a fascia and soffit replacement take?
As a national guide, the Federation of Master Builders gives one to two days for a terraced house, around two to three days for a semi and three to five days for a detached property.
That is a guide across the country and not a promise for your house. The length of the run, the access and what turns up behind the old boards all change it. Ask us when we price yours.
How do you get an exact price for your house?
Send us the quote form with a photo or two, or ring Richard on 07835 889248, Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm. We look at the house, in person or from your photos, and give you a price. It is free and there is no obligation.
Every price comes with our standard guarantee: 10 years on the workmanship and 20 years on the product. The three starting prices, and what moves them, are set out on our prices page, and there are finished jobs to look at on our before and after page.
