The longer answer
What wrap actually is: thin aluminum sheet, brake-bent on site and nailed over the face of the existing fascia board. When the wood underneath is sound and dry, it's a fair maintenance-free finish — that's the honest case for it.
Why we don't offer it:
- You can't inspect what's covered. Once the metal is on, nobody sees the board again — including you, at resale inspection time.
- Wrap over damp or soft wood seals the moisture in. The rot keeps moving into the soffit and rafter tails behind a clean-looking face.
- We're the crew that gets called two or three years later — when the gutters pull loose because the screws behind the aluminum have nothing left to bite.
How to compare bids: ask each contractor two questions. Are you removing the board or covering it? What happens to the rot? A wrap bid can be half the price of replacement because it's half the job.
Our approach: rotted boards come off, new pressure-treated wood or cellular PVC goes on, primed and painted to match, gutters re-hung at proper pitch — $12–$22 per linear foot installed, with a written 10-year workmanship warranty.