It looks the same as a fascia board and indeed the same board can be used although a barge board does not carry out any supporting structural function on the roof.
Barge boards and guttering.
Fasc ias run horizontally along the roofline and can be made from either plastic or wooden boards.
This is no mean feat especially when it is raining hard.
The advantage of this system is that it can cover faded and rotting fascia and eliminate the need to maintain and paint your fascia boards.
This simply accelerates the deterioration of the board in the case of wooden boards and possibly the fascia too.
Fascia soffit and barge board importance.
Fascia cover also exhibits the same profile as steel fascia thus it can be used to cover the existing timber boards to match up to an extension or new top storey addition where steel fascia has been used.
Barge board is the name given to the board that runs up each side of a gable or apex forming the top two sides of a triangle.
Fascias or fascia are the horizontal board that caps the edge of rafters around the outside of your building.
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.
This is the board that is used on the gable end of a house.
In a downpour the roof of a 3 bed semi could be washing several gallons of water per second into its gutters.
They appear as an inverted v under the edges of the roof verge protecting the exposed materials much like a fascia.
The fascia board roofline can also have guttering attached to it.