Fascia board replacement runs $5 to $12 per linear foot installed, and soffit runs $4 to $22. Most homes carry 100 to 200 linear feet of eave, so a full replacement lands somewhere between $960 and $3,520 — closer to the low end for vinyl over a single-story eave, closer to the top for aluminum wrap on a two-story cut-up roofline.
The fascia is the board running along the rafter tails, and the gutter hangs from it, so pricing is per linear foot of eave. Here's how the common job types stack up in 2026:
| Job | Installed cost | What moves the price |
|---|---|---|
| Wood fascia board replacement | $5–$12/LF | Board size, rot extent, story height |
| Aluminum fascia wrap (coil over wood) | $11–$20/LF | Coil thickness, brake work at corners |
| Vinyl soffit panels | $4–$22/LF ($6–$10 typical) | Vented vs solid, overhang depth |
| Fascia or soffit repair (patch) | ~$10/LF | Usually billed with a minimum visit charge |
| Remove old fascia / soffit | $3–$7/LF | Added to replacement quotes as a line item |
Homewyse's May 2026 basic-install figures put aluminum fascia at $11.17 to $19.87 a foot — the middle of the market because it's what seamless-gutter crews install by default. Vinyl is the budget path: material alone runs $1 to $4 per square foot for soffit panels and $2 to $5 a foot for fascia, with labor roughly doubling it.
Whole-job pricing is eave perimeter times the per-foot rate. A rectangular house's eave runs 2 × (length + width) when all four sides overhang; many homes only have open eaves on two sides, with gable rakes trimmed differently. The table uses the same footprint math as our soffit and fascia calculator, priced at $6 to $22 per linear foot installed:
| House footprint | Eave perimeter | Turnkey installed |
|---|---|---|
| 32 × 32 (1,000 sq ft) | 128 LF | $768–$2,816 |
| 40 × 40 (1,600 sq ft) | 160 LF | $960–$3,520 |
| 50 × 40 (2,000 sq ft) | 180 LF | $1,080–$3,960 |
| 60 × 40 (2,400 sq ft) | 200 LF | $1,200–$4,400 |
Doing the material yourself changes the math, not the measurement. On that 50×40 house, 180 LF of eave plus 10% cutting waste means 198 LF of fascia and — at a typical 18-inch overhang — about 297 square feet of soffit. At big-box pricing of $4.50 a foot for fascia stock and $2 a square foot for panels, that's roughly $1,485 in material before fasteners, F-channel, and vents. The calculator runs this from your footprint and overhang depth directly.
Most replacement jobs aren't actually choosing one. The standard build is new wood fascia for structure wrapped in aluminum coil for weather: maintenance-free from the ladder's view, solid from the gutter hanger's view. Vinyl interlocking panels own the soffit side in new construction — they snap into F-channel and J-channel, come solid, center-vent, or fully vented, and never need paint. Fiber cement boards show up on premium and fire-prone-region builds at the top of the cost band.
The honest tradeoff is repaint cycles against upfront cost. Bare wood fascia is the cheapest to install and the most expensive to keep: paint fails at the gutter line first, water gets behind the gutter, and the board rots from the fastener holes inward. Aluminum-wrapped fascia costs roughly double the wood-only line item and removes that cycle entirely. On a 160-foot house, the wrap premium is about $1,000 — roughly what three repaints and one rot repair would have cost.
It matters more than the trim color, put it that way. Soffit is the intake half of passive attic ventilation; ridge or static vents are the exit. The code-standard rule of thumb is 1 square foot of net free vent area per 150 square feet of attic floor, relaxable to 1 per 300 when intake and exit are balanced. Swapping solid for vented panels while a re-roof adds a ridge vent is the cheapest attic improvement most houses can get — and it's nearly free when the soffit is already coming down for replacement.
One caution crews see often: venting the intake without an exit path just pressurizes the attic. If the roof has no ridge vent or static vents, solve both halves or neither.
Isolated rot at a corner or behind a leaking gutter seam is a repair: cut back to solid wood, splice in a section, prime all faces, rehang. Bills run about $10 a foot with a minimum charge. Replacement earns out when the paint is failing along the whole run, the soffit sags or stains between rafters, or pests are getting in through decayed panels — at that point piecemeal repair is paying discovery cost twice. Get the quote itemized by linear foot of fascia and square foot of soffit; it should audit cleanly against your own perimeter measurement.
Eave perimeter, soffit square footage, board count, and material cost from your footprint and overhang depth.
Soffit & Fascia Calculator →Plan on $5–$12 a foot for fascia boards, $11–$20 wrapped in aluminum, $6–$10 for vinyl soffit — and $1,000 to $3,500 for the typical whole house. The soffit and fascia calculator converts your footprint into a material list, and since the gutters come off during any fascia job, the gutter calculator and siding calculator price the two projects most often bundled with it.
$5 to $12 per linear foot installed for wood fascia board, and $11 to $20 per foot for aluminum coil wrapped over the wood. Most homes carry 100 to 200 linear feet of eave, which is why whole-job quotes cluster between roughly $1,000 and $4,000.
Soffit installation runs $4 to $22 per linear foot depending on material and accessibility. Vinyl panels are the budget end at $6 to $10 a foot installed; material alone runs $1 to $4 per square foot for vinyl soffit and $2 to $5 a foot for vinyl fascia.
Between $960 and $3,520 for a typical 1,600-square-foot home with 160 linear feet of eave at $6 to $22 per foot installed. Larger footprints and two-story eaves push toward the top of the range, and removing old material adds $3 to $7 per foot.
Aluminum coil and vinyl both last decades with essentially no maintenance. Wood fascia needs repainting every few years and rots anywhere moisture sits, which is why most replacement quotes wrap new wood in aluminum coil — the wood gives structure, the metal gives the weather surface.
Almost never — gutters fasten through the fascia, so they come off first and get rehung after. Many crews quote soffit, fascia, and gutters as one job for exactly this reason, and bundling the rehang into the same visit is usually cheaper than doing them as separate projects.