Looking for soffits & fascia in Mt. Lebanon? Ireland Contracting repairs, replaces, and installs soffit and fascia across Pittsburgh and Western PA: the boards and panels along your roof's edge that hold the gutters, seal the eave, and ventilate the attic. We fix the rotted section behind a sagging gutter, and we wrap whole eaves in low-maintenance vented aluminum, usually alongside a roof, gutter, or siding job but on its own when that's what the house needs.
Mt. Lebanon's houses are older than Allegheny County's as a whole: the median home here was built in 1953, and nearly a third of the municipality's houses predate 1940. Ireland Contracting roofs, sides, and replaces windows on those brick and stone Tudors and Colonials, with Owens Corning Platinum Preferred roofing crews and a repair technician who handles the small jobs older houses generate.
The wood eaves on Mt. Lebanon's pre-war homes have been scraped and repainted for ninety years, and the paint is often the only thing holding the bottom of the fascia together. We replace rotted sections and wrap them in aluminum so the eave never needs paint again.
Soffit and fascia do two jobs that don't look related until they fail. Fascia is the vertical board at the roof edge: it carries the gutters and closes off the ends of the rafters. Soffit is the underside of the overhang: it keeps weather and animals out of the eave and, through its vents, pulls fresh air into the attic so heat and moisture can leave at the ridge. When either one rots, the gutter starts pulling away, water runs back into the eave, and the attic stops breathing.
Repair or replacement? A single rotted fascia section behind a gutter that's sagging, or a soffit panel a squirrel has opened up, is a repair. We cut out the bad wood, sister or replace the sub-fascia and any rotted rafter tails, and put the gutter back on solid material. When the paint is failing along the whole eave, the wood is soft in more than one spot, or the house has no soffit vents at all, replacement is the better value: new aluminum fascia and vented soffit over sound wood, done once, never painted again.
What's under the aluminum matters. Most Pittsburgh eaves are original wood, and the usual shortcut is to wrap it in aluminum without looking at it. We don't cap rot. Soft fascia and sub-fascia come out and get replaced, rafter tails are repaired, and only then does the aluminum go on, so the gutter hangers have something to bite into and the rot doesn't keep spreading under a clean-looking cover.
Ventilation is the part most homeowners never see. An attic needs air coming in low at the soffit and leaving high at the ridge. Without soffit intake, ridge vents do nothing, summer heat cooks the shingles from underneath, and in winter the warm attic melts snow that refreezes at the cold eave as an ice dam. New vented soffit is often the cheapest fix for an ice-dam problem, and it's why we treat soffit as roofing work, not trim.
Why Mt. Lebanon homeowners choose Ireland Contracting for soffits & fascia
- Fascia and soffit repair, not just full replacement
- Rotted sub-fascia and rafter tails replaced before capping
- Low-maintenance aluminum fascia and vented soffit
- Attic intake ventilation restored: fewer ice dams, longer shingle life
- Keeps out birds, squirrels, and insects
- Gutters re-hung on solid fascia
- Coordinates with roofing, gutter, and siding projects
- Licensed and insured under PA #026195, family-owned since 1994
Ireland Contracting also provides soffits & fascia in nearby Dormont, Castle Shannon, Scott Township. Learn more about our soffits & fascia services or view everything we offer in Mt. Lebanon.