Summer house roof edging?

[raceboy]

The edging around the top of my summer house has been slowly rotting for years, and now a large proportion is missing, it appears to be mostly cosmetic but I’d rather replace it.
Problem is I can’t seem to find anything similar, I don’t know if I’m googling the wrong description but trawling the DIY sites and visiting local timber merchants results no joy.
Anyone got any ideas?
My current alternative is to get some laser cut in Aluminium and then powder coated, luckily something I can get done at a reduced rate, but the timber option would be less hassle if I could find some!

[smokey mow]

Try searching for scalloped fascia board, plenty of options on google for timber or UPVC although not necessarily exactly the same as you have at present.

e.g.

https://www.timberdoorcanopies.co.uk/shop/barge-bo...

[raceboy]

Cheers....but I don't know how out of touch I am with prices but £60 a metre!
I'd need 10 metres and at those prices I can get the Alloy option, painted for the price of 1 metre of wood!

[The Gauge]

Just get a pice of timber of the correct size, copy the shape onto it with a pencil and use a jigsaw to cut the shape.
For my shed I just used a piece of featheredge board (which I didn't shape) as I had that to hand.

[raceboy]

That's not a bad call, price comes down to £3 a metre then, plus a lick of paint.
If I'm careful and just go for a wavy edge I should be able to get 2 pieces out of each length, although with my woodworking skills I'll probably just make a mess.

[The Gauge]

The Gauge said:

Just get a pice of timber of the correct size, copy the shape onto it with a pencil and use a jigsaw to cut the shape.
For my shed I just used a piece of featheredge board (which I didn't shape) as I had that to hand.

I replaced mine with this featheredge about 5yrs ago thinking it would be a temporary job until I got around to replacing with some better quality wood, but it is still doing its job so I've left it. I prefer the straight edge to the wavy edge it replaced..

[JoshSm]

Last time I needed to do a replacement like this it turned out cheapest to get some decking board from a local place as a starting point for cutting and routing.

The original boards were substantial and decking turned out to be the easiest and by far the cheapest route to a large thick board with enough length.


What I'm dreading more is tracking down some cedar shiplap of the right size for some minor repairs to the Wendy house; it's about 60 years old & mostly fine (the joy of quality materials) but finding decent cedar to an old imperial size is going to be fun. Luckily doesn't need too much of it.