Gable Roof Barge Board

Bargeboard is exterior house trim usually ornately carved that is attached along the roof line of a gable.

Gable roof barge board.

The ridiculous thing is there s no reason to have barge boards at all. Originally this victorian wood trim also called vergeboard or verge board verge being the end or edge of a thing was used to hide the ends of rafters. They appear as an inverted v under the edges of the roof verge protecting the exposed materials much like a fascia. The picture above shows the plan view of a gable roof.

What s the point of sticking exposed softwood boards on the most. 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. Bargeboard probably from medieval latin bargus or barcus a scaffold and not from the now obsolete synonym vergeboard is a board fastened to the projecting gables of a roof to give them strength protection and to conceal the otherwise exposed end of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof to which they were attached. Now let s get this right by gable barge boards we mean the triangular pieces of timber bit at the top right.

Ladder trusses are made up using four noggins bridging at each corner to support a rafter outside the building. It s just as quick to finish the top of a gable off with pointing or render.