The barge boards are the boards or sometimes tiles, known as dry verge, fitted on the gable ends of a property.

Barge boards help form the overhanging gables that protect your property's brickwork from the effects of rainfall, so they're exposed to the very worst elements of the weather.

Because they are so high up painting and maintaining them can be dangerous as well as time consuming.

As there is nothing load bearing on the gable ends, it means no requirement for backing boards. We simply need to take down the existing barge boards, directly behind which there is an existing rafter. This acts as a good fixing for the new PVCu boards to be fitted.