The edge of your roof, sealed and solid.
Soffit and fascia are the trim that finish your roof edge, hold your gutters, and let your attic breathe. When they rot, water, pests, and poor airflow follow. Buckshot repairs and replaces both across Wisconsin and Iowa with our own crews, often alongside roof or gutter work.
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Two pieces, one roof edge.
People mix them up all the time. Here's the difference, and why both matter for keeping water out and your attic healthy.
Fascia
What it is: the board running horizontally along the roof edge, capping the rafter ends. It's the trim you see just below the shingles.
What it does: it seals the roof edge, gives a clean finished line, and holds your gutters. When fascia rots, gutters loosen and water gets behind them.
Soffit
What it is: the panel tucked under the eave, between the fascia and the wall. Look up under your roof overhang and that's the soffit.
What it does: it closes off the eave, keeps out pests, and vents fresh air into the attic. Vented soffit is your attic's main air intake.
Small trim, big job.
Soffit and fascia are your roof edge's first line of defense. Healthy, they keep water, pests, and weather out and let your attic breathe. Failing, they invite every one of those problems in.
Rotted fascia lets gutters pull away and water run behind them. Damaged soffit opens the door to birds, squirrels, and wasps, and chokes the airflow your attic needs, which can lead to ice dams, trapped heat, and a shorter roof life.
Signs it's time to take a look.
Soffit and fascia damage is easy to miss until gutters sag or pests move in. Notice any of these from the ground? Get it checked.
Flaking paint on the fascia is the first sign moisture is getting in.
Wood that's spongy, crumbling, or visibly rotted at the roof edge.
Gutters pulling away or drooping usually means the fascia behind them failed.
Water marks or streaking along the underside of the overhang.
Openings that let birds, squirrels, or wasps nest in the eave or attic.
Painted-over, clogged, or missing vents that starve the attic of airflow.
The right material for your eaves.
We match the material to your home, your budget, and how much upkeep you want. Here's what most homeowners choose.
Wood
The classic look, especially on older or historic homes. It needs paint and upkeep; we replace rotted sections in kind to match what's there.
Aluminum
Durable metal capping that wraps the fascia and resists weather. A clean, low-maintenance finish that's a popular upgrade.
Vinyl
Low-cost, low-maintenance soffit panels, including vented options that keep attic airflow moving. Won't rot or need painting.
From inspection to clean finish.
One Buckshot project manager owns the job start to finish. No handoffs, no call center, no surprises.
Free inspection
We check the fascia, soffit, gutter line, and attic airflow, then explain what's failing.
Written estimate
A clear, itemized estimate: repair vs replace, materials, and whether gutters come off.
Repair or replace
Rotted board and panels out, new ones in, with aluminum wrap on the fascia if you choose it.
Vent & finish
We confirm soffit ventilation, reset gutters, seal it up, and clean the site.
One crew for the whole roof edge.
Soffit, fascia, gutters, and ventilation all meet at the eave, so it pays to have one accountable crew handle them together. That's the kind of work a family company built since 1979 is set up to do.
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Q.02Do I have to replace both?+
Q.03Can you wrap the fascia in aluminum instead of replacing it?+
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Get your roof edge solid again.
Peeling paint, soft fascia, sagging gutters, or critters in the eave? Start with a free, no-pressure inspection and a written estimate from a family roofing crew that's been at it since 1979. We respond within 2 hours.
Buckshot General Contracting, family-owned since 1979. Headquartered at 621 N Sherman Ave, Suite B5, Madison, WI 53704, with a field office in Centerville, IA. Licensed in 24 states. WI Lic. DC-080900045. GAF Master Elite and BBB A+ accredited. Material options, repair versus replacement, and gutter handling depend on on-site conditions. Credentials and licensing current as of publication.