Gable Roof Barge Board

It hangs from the projecting end of a gable roof.

Gable roof barge board. They appear as an inverted v under the edges of the roof verge protecting the exposed materials much like a fascia. Fascia soffit and barge board importance. What s the point of sticking exposed softwood boards on the most. Bargeboard is exterior house trim usually ornately carved that is attached along the roof line of a gable.

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. Now let s get this right by gable barge boards we mean the triangular pieces of timber bit at the top right. The ridiculous thing is there s no reason to have barge boards at all. The picture above shows the plan view of a gable roof.

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. 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.