Does anyone know where can I buy white, plastic version of 4" x 1" timber (5M length)?
I was going to use tanalized timber, but some of you recommended using UPVC.
All I can find is 10mm x 100mm UPVC facia. If all else fails, I suppose I could sandwich two lengths of this together with silicone sealant, but it seems like a bit of a lash-up.
Many thanks, JD
This is the stuff you want. You can also get 150mm and 200mm wide. There are special joining pieces that are virtually invisible behind the gutter. Also corners. Also stainless steel nails with matching plastic covered heads. Quick, light and easy to install, joints are covered by the joining pieces and don't have to be accurate. You can get white, brown and black colours. Most people go for the white, cheapest and easiest to get.
You'd have to buy the 6"x1" and cut it down to 4"
Are they solid? It doesn't actually say so. If they're hollow - with some form of internal honeycomb - cutting them down may not be such a good idea.
that's what I thought. Maybe there are solid ones out there somewhere. But I'm not convinced. They'd be several times the price.
NT
They're not going to be solid uPVC, more likely a PVC skin with a high density foam core, IME similar fascia boards cut, drill and plane very well, I've used the offcuts for making several mounting brackets.
Some are foam inside. Some are hollow with several cells to stiffen the structure up.
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