Eaves Overhang Cladding

Hello everyone,

I wanted to ask what experiences you have had with the cladding on roofs. By default, the verge overhang (and also the eaves overhang) is clad with wood. Our builder has now offered us to use a metal cladding at the same price. The overhang will be about 25 cm, but the roof will remain traditional with ridge tiles.

Of course, the builder would save himself the double painting of the cladding, but on the other hand, with the metal cladding we would have the advantage of less maintenance effort in the future.

How much effort is actually involved in maintaining a wooden verge overhang in practice? Painting every 3-4 years?
Has anyone had negative experiences with titanium-zinc metal cladding? Rust?

Visually, we can imagine both options; the house is designed in a modern style.

Thanks for your experiences,

Axellent

This was a loooong topic for us – painted wood was immediately in the running because of the maintenance. Every 3-4 years is a bit short notice, but you definitely have to paint it at least every 8-10 years if you want to enjoy the wood for a long time. That means another expensive scaffold, sanding, and multiple coats of paint. Personally, I wouldn’t be up for that...

Then we considered Alubeche as eaves cladding – but later we were advised against it because of warping in heat.

Then standing seam sheet metal made of zinc – I still find it pretty, especially on a more modern house. But it’s also expensive (even executed nicely, i.e., with vertical seams). I’m surprised it’s supposed to be cheaper or as expensive as wood.

Ultimately, we decided on colored panels (anthracite) from Trespa for the eaves. The bargeboards themselves are made of white plastic – also for durability. And since we don’t like a cornice box, we clad the roof slope.

On the extensions, we had anthracite-colored standing seam sheet metal installed on the sides and are very happy with the look.

Here are a few pictures:

Here is another example of a verge cladding. Additional costs for the single-family house are about € 500.00 (I don’t know the exact amount because our customers negotiated directly with the roofer), the undersides were - according to the homeowners’ choice - painted at no extra cost. Now the "hat" of the single-family house completely shines in RAL 7016

Rhenish greetings

Thank you for the two responses. For us, it’s probably only about the underside of the roof overhang. And in our opinion, our developer definitely wants to have a prestige project in the new development area that looks as chic/modern as possible. According to today’s statement, he will definitely make the eaves side out of wood and will paint it. However, painting it should not be too elaborate. I have a picture on the developer’s website, but I’m not sure if it is allowed to be posted here.??!?