This was the job I mainly bought the saw for!
>
> It cut through the facia plastic material (which was much thicker)
> perfectly, but I had to cut lots of 300mm wide bits of very thin
> double walled plastic soffit. Rather than cut them, it just ripped at
> them due to its very course blade hooking onto the thin plastic. >
> I chased around all of the local tools emporiums for a finer blade,
> but the fitted blade was as fine as they come as standard. Then I had
> the bright idea of turning the blad around, so it rotated backwards.
> That worked perfectly.
>
> Be warned that getting to the Allen bolt fixing the blade is almost
> impossible with the supplied key for blade changing, is next to
> impossible. The blade guard and its linkage overlap the bolt. Luckily
> I had a set of those ball ended Allen key sets, which allow the key
> to go into the bolt at a slight angle.
>
> After a late start, I mananaged to get one house side of the soffit +
> facia + guttering completed, all but the fall pipe. Fall pipe and the
> other side tomorrow.
>
> Quotes for doing the job varied from £1100 to £1600, parts and labour.
> Our materials cost was £151 and will have taken two of us two days to
> complete - a bargain I think and the satisfaction of knowing it has
> been done properly.
Nowt like the satisfaction that comes with doing a job yourself and saving £1000+ in the process. Nice idea about turning the blade around too. One to remember.