Roofline work is priced by the metre, then adjusted for everything that makes a particular house awkward. Four parts make up the roofline, where slope meets wall. The fascia is the board facing outward along the eaves. The soffit is the panel that shuts off the underside of the eaves. The gutter hangs from the fascia. On a gable end, the bargeboard follows the slope of the roof.
Below are the typical national ranges for each part, a worked example you can scale to your own house, and the reasons a Stroud quote can sit above or below those ranges. All the figures come from MyBuilder's 2026 guide to gutter, fascia and soffit replacement. Our hub page on guttering, soffits and fascias covers the work itself. They are national averages, not a price from us. If you want to know why scaffold matters to the cost, read do you need scaffolding for fascias and soffits. For the parts themselves, see fascias, soffits and gutters explained.
The per-metre ranges for each part of the roofline
MyBuilder's guide, updated in August 2026, gives these typical ranges for the UK. They cover the supply and fitting of the new part, not the whole job.
| Part | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Guttering | £30 to £70 per metre |
| Fascia board | £80 to £150 per metre |
| Soffit board | £100 to £180 per metre |
| Fascia and soffit together | about £150 per metre |
| Bargeboard | £195 |
| Scaffold | £20 to £40 per m² |
Two things stand out. Guttering is the lowest-priced part per metre, so replacing a run of gutter alone costs far less than a roofline strip-out. And a soffit costs more per metre than a fascia, even though it is hidden from the front, because it is a wider board, often with ventilation built in.
The combined figure of about £150 per metre sits inside the sum of the separate ones. Fitting the fascia and soffit together saves a little on labour, because the same fixings, the same access and the same making good serve both boards.
Why a bargeboard is priced as a unit and a fascia by the metre
A bargeboard runs up the sloping edge of a gable, finishing the verge (the roof edge above a gable wall). MyBuilder gives one price of £195 rather than a rate per metre. In practice a gable is a short, sloping run with two boards, a cut at the apex and a different fixing from the level boards along the eaves. Fixings and protection are covered in our bargeboard guide.
Where the metres come from
To work a fascia price out for your own house, measure the length of each eaves elevation along the wall, then add the rake length of any gables if bargeboards are being renewed. Count internal and external corners separately, because each one is a joint that takes extra time to form and seal. A simple rectangular house with plain eaves on two sides sits at the lower end of the range. A house with a rear extension, a porch roof and a bay window carries many more corners for the same length of wall.
Ask for the quote to state the lengths in metres, the number of corners and the number of outlets. Those three numbers let you check any price against the table above.
Scaffold: the cost that moves the total most
MyBuilder puts scaffold at £20 to £40 per m² of elevation in its roofline guide. For comparison, its guide to a full re-roof gives about £1,125 for a house, and Checkatrade's re-roof guide (updated October 2026) gives £700 to £1,300. Those are both national figures for whole-roof access, but they show the scale: scaffold is rarely a small cost.
On a roofline job the scaffold usually has to reach every elevation where a board comes off. A two-storey house, a steep or narrow lane with no room to stand a tower, and a terraced hillside where the ground falls away at the back all raise the cost, because the poles, the boards and the time to erect them all increase.
When a ladder or tower is enough
A single-storey extension, a porch or a garage can sometimes be reached from a mobile tower or a good ladder base, and the job is priced without a full scaffold. The decision is made at the survey, from the eaves height and the ground below. It is not made on the day. If you want the access question explained in full, our answer on scaffolding for fascias and soffits deals with it separately.
A worked example for a ten metre run
Take a single elevation of 10 metres with a plain eaves, no corners and no extras. Using the ranges above, the parts price out like this.
| Item | Working | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Guttering only | 10 m at £30 to £70 | £300 to £700 |
| Fascia only | 10 m at £80 to £150 | £800 to £1,500 |
| Soffit only | 10 m at £100 to £180 | £1,000 to £1,800 |
| Fascia and soffit together | 10 m at about £150 | about £1,500 |
Add a gutter to the combined figure and the elevation lands somewhere around £1,800 to £2,200 before scaffold, which is simple arithmetic on the national figures rather than a quote. Scaffold then goes on top. For an illustration, a single elevation of 10 metres by 5 metres is 50 m² of scaffolded wall, which at £20 to £40 per m² is £1,000 to £2,000. That is why roofline work is nearly always cheaper when all four elevations are done in one visit: the scaffold is erected once, and its cost is shared over every metre of board.
The same sum run the other way explains why a short gutter repair on a high wall can cost more than the gutter. If only one corner has failed, the scaffold for that corner is the same as for the whole elevation.
What moves a price on a Stroud house
A national average cannot see your street. Here is what we check at the survey that pushes a figure up, or down.
Rotten timber behind the board
This is the item that most often changes a price after the boards come off, which is why we photograph and press-test them first.
The fascia is fixed to the ends of the rafters, so when a board has gone soft the rafter feet behind it often need looking at. Replacing a rafter end, or fixing a new section alongside it, is extra work that cannot be priced until the old board is off. Where we can see it from the survey photographs, it goes in the quote. Our guide to rotten fascia boards shows what we look for.
Material
uPVC, timber and aluminium cost different amounts, and so do their finishes. The choice has its own guide: uPVC, timber or aluminium fascias. MyBuilder's figures above are for common supply, so a coloured or wood-effect board, a dark cast aluminium section or a made-to-order timber profile will sit above them.
Asbestos cement soffits
Some older soffits are asbestos cement board. Careful removal of intact board is non-licensed work under HSE guidance, but it needs handling that ordinary soffit removal does not, and it changes the price. We explain the rules in asbestos soffits.
Listed and protected buildings
Stroud District has 41 conservation areas, with Article 4 Directions in five of them. A listed house is protected as a whole, not just its front. A timber replacement made to match may be what the planning team expects, which changes the material and so the cost. Ask the planning team before you commit, and read roofline work in conservation areas.
Gutters and downpipes: what changes the metre rate
The £30 to £70 range for guttering is wide, and where a house sits in it depends on a handful of things. Run length is the first. Every join, stop end, angle and outlet is a separate fitting, so a long straight run of plain half-round is the lower end, and a roof with several short runs and awkward returns is the upper end. Downpipes are counted on top, by the length from gutter to drain, and a three-storey house with a tall wall will have more of them than a bungalow.
Profile and material
The shape of the gutter and what it is made from both change the price. A standard half-round in plastic is the baseline. Square and deep-flow profiles cost more, and so does aluminium; cast iron is dealt with by survey, because it is heavy, needs sturdier brackets and is often repaired in sections rather than replaced. Our guides on gutter materials and cast iron gutters put the choices side by side.
Repair or replace
Where only a joint has failed or one bracket has let go, a repair can cost a fraction of replacement. Where the run is cracked, split or rusting through along its length, patching joint after joint costs more than a new run over time. At the survey we mark which lengths are fixable and which are not, and price both options when the call is close.
Doing the whole roofline in one visit
The ranges above treat each part on its own, but most houses are better served by planning the whole elevation together. If the fascia has gone soft, the gutter on it is coming off anyway, and the soffit behind is usually the same age. Replacing all three while the scaffold is up means one set of access costs, one set of making good where the old fixings leave holes in the brickwork or stone, and a roofline that ages evenly instead of in three stages.
The exception is a roofline that is partly sound. A modern uPVC soffit in good order may be left alone while a failed fascia and gutter are renewed, and a cast iron gutter that is still working may be re-hung on new brackets rather than replaced. At the survey we point it out and show both prices, so you are choosing between two written figures rather than guessing.
Reading the written quote
Once we have photographed the roofline from the ground and from height, the written quote follows. It covers scaffold, taking off the old boards, new fascia, soffit, bargeboards, gutters, downpipes, repairs to the wall and disposal. VAT is shown, because roofline replacement is normally standard-rated.
A fair comparison needs the same lengths and the same material on each quote. If one price is far lower than the others, check scaffold first, then whether the soffit is included. The work carries our 10-year workmanship guarantee, issued on paper, and the site is left tidy.
For an idea of timing and whether to do the whole roofline at once, see how long roofline replacement takes. If your fascias are uPVC and you are wondering how long they last before you spend this money, uPVC fascia lifespan compares the sources.