If your last set of shingles only lasted 15 years when they should have lasted 25, the problem might be six feet below the shingles. Soffit and fascia are the parts of your house most homeowners ignore until they’re visibly failing, but they’re doing real work the whole time. Soffit pulls cold outdoor air into the attic to keep the roof deck cold in winter (which prevents ice dams) and ventilated in summer (which prevents premature shingle wear). Fascia holds your eavestrough and keeps weather out of the roof edge. The whole system is pre-finished aluminum, which means no painting, no rust, and a finish that holds up for decades. We’ve replaced soffit and fascia across Winnipeg since 2011, in older neighbourhoods like East Kildonan and the North End where wood soffit from the 1950s is finally giving up.
We install pre-finished aluminum soffit and fascia, custom-cut to fit your house. The installation is integrated with any eavestrough or roof work you need. These aren’t separate jobs to us, they’re parts of the same system. Most soffit and fascia replacements take one to two days depending on the size and complexity of the house.
We remove the old soffit, replace any rotten or weathered lumber on the fascia board, and do any other necessary repairs to the wood substrate before installing the new aluminum. On older Winnipeg homes (especially anything built before 1980) there’s often rotten wood at the fascia board, where decades of overflowing eavestroughs have soaked the lumber.
The vented aluminum soffit goes on first, because the aluminum fascia is what holds the soffit in place. Then the aluminum fascia is installed over the fascia board and ties into the eavestrough hangers. The eavestrough goes on top of the fascia, completing the system.
Most homes need vented soffit across the full length of the eaves to allow proper attic airflow. Solid soffit is used in specific spots: over porches, under bay windows, or where the cavity behind doesn’t connect to attic space. Getting this right matters more than people realize.
Standard guidance is one square foot of vent area for every 300 square feet of attic floor, split roughly evenly between soffit (intake) and ridge (exhaust). On most Winnipeg bungalows, that’s a continuous run of vented soffit along both long sides of the house. On L-shaped houses or homes with dormers, the math gets more complicated and the install matters more.
Anywhere the cavity behind the soffit doesn’t open into the attic. The underside of a porch roof, a soffit overhang over a bay window, the wrap-around at a corner where there’s no attic above. Putting vented soffit there just lets wind, snow, and insects into a sealed cavity.
Trudel Roofing looks at soffit and fascia as a key component in a healthy attic space system that complements your new roofing system. When the company that installs your roof also installs the soffit and fascia, the ventilation and the transitions get done properly the first time.
Soffit and fascia questions tend to centre on materials (aluminum vs. wood vs. vinyl), whether you can replace just the fascia without the soffit, and what colour options look right with different houses. Plain answers below.
Vinyl soffit becomes brittle in Winnipeg’s deep cold and cracks when impacted, whether by a ladder, a falling branch, or a snow rake. Vinyl also expands and contracts more than aluminum across Manitoba’s severe weather swings, which loosens fasteners over time. Aluminum holds up better in this climate.
Yes, often. The soffit sits underneath an overhang, so it doesn’t see UV, rain, or the same kind of weather punishment that the fascia takes. The soffit usually has a longer working life than the fascia, so skipping it and doing just the fascia is a reasonable call when the soffit is still in good shape.
Properly installed pre-finished aluminum soffit and fascia in Winnipeg typically lasts 30 to 40 years. The aluminum doesn’t rot and the colour finish holds up well under UV. The failure point is usually the fasteners. If cheaper aluminum nails were used instead of screws into the wood substrate, the panels work loose under wind and snow load.
Yes, within the standard pre-finished aluminum colour range. We carry the common colours and can order custom matches for unusual siding shades. We’ll bring colour samples to the quote so you can see them against your actual house, not just on a chart.
It can, if the ice dams are caused by blocked or insufficient ventilation. If the cause is heat loss into the attic or inadequate insulation, soffit alone won’t fix it. We diagnose the cause during the quote and tell you whether soffit and fascia work would actually solve the problem or just be part of the fix.
If your soffit is sagging, your fascia is rotten, or you’re tired of looking at peeling paint, get in touch. We’ll come measure, check the wood underneath, and give you a quote within 72 hours.
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