Rollex

Rollex soffit, fascia and trim coil finish the eaves, rake and window trim of a house in metal that never needs paint, and the pieces come in matching colors so the soffit, fascia, drip edge and even the nails agree with each other. It’s the package a siding crew or a homeowner uses to close in the overhang and wrap the trim once and be done with it.

Rollex is an Illinois company that has made exterior building products for more than 50 years, painting and roll forming them on its own line in Elk Grove Village. Its fascia and ventilated soffit are on more than a million U.S. homes, and it also makes steel siding, Horizon vinyl siding and roofing accessories.

System 3 soffit under the eaves

System 3 is Rollex’s aluminum soffit, strong enough to span the overhang and flexible enough to bow into the channels at each end. It comes as center-vented panels that let the attic pull in air along the eave, and as solid panels for the stretches that don’t need it. Run vented soffit over every eave with an attic behind it, and save the solid panels for porch ceilings, gable overhangs and anywhere there’s no attic to breathe.

That venting matters more here than most places. On a Montana roof, the fix for ice dams is a cold, well-ventilated attic, and air coming in at the soffit and out at the ridge is half of that job. Aluminum soffit also never rots, never needs scraping, and gives woodpeckers and squirrels nothing to chew into, which is more than a painted plywood soffit can say after a few winters.

Steel fascia and a finish that stays put

Fascia covers the rafter ends, and when its color is off, it’s the first thing anyone notices. Rollex steel fascia is made to match the Rollex steel siding colors and comes in 4, 6 and 8 inch widths, so there’s a width for every sub-fascia board from a shed to a two-story eave. It goes up with color-matched Rollex trim nails, and a one-ounce bottle of matching touch-up paint covers a nicked edge, so nothing on the finished eave shows bare metal or a silver nail head.

The finish is the reason to buy Rollex. The sun at Montana elevation chalks and fades painted trim faster than most people expect, and a south-facing eave shows it first. Rollex backs its products with a lifetime, non-prorated warranty that covers chalk and fade, so the fascia you hang this summer is still covered years from now, at full value, instead of shrinking to nothing the way a prorated warranty does.

Trim coil for everything else

Rollex trim coil is 24 inches wide in 50-foot rolls, and it’s what gets bent on a brake to wrap window and door casings, porch posts, beams and any wood the siding leaves showing. It comes in a smooth finish, a textured finish and a woodgrain finish. Pick the textured or woodgrain coil for wide, flat wraps like a garage door header or a beam, because the texture hides the slight waviness a wide piece of smooth metal shows in low sun.

J-channel, trim pieces and drip edge

Rollex makes the pieces that finish every edge in the same colors: J-channel and F-channel for the cut ends of siding and soffit, miter divider trim, brick mould covers for wrapping window frames, undersill trim, and steel drip edge for the roof line. When the drip edge, fascia and soffit all come from one paint line, the roof edge and the eave read as one clean line instead of three shades of brown.

Why Rollex trim

A painted wood fascia and soffit is a job you do again every few years; Rollex metal trim is a job you do once. It doesn’t rot, doesn’t need paint, cleans with a hose, matches from soffit to nail head, and carries a non-prorated chalk and fade warranty. For a siding crew that wants the eave finished and never called back about, or a homeowner who’s done scraping trim, that’s the whole case.

Rollex trim at a glance

Product	Job on the house	Details
System 3 soffit	Underside of the eave	Aluminum, center-vented or solid, 16 in. panels in 12 ft lengths
Steel fascia	Covers rafter ends	4, 6 and 8 in. widths, 12 ft lengths, matched to steel siding colors
Trim coil	Wraps casings, posts and beams	Aluminum, 24 in. x 50 ft, smooth, textured or woodgrain
Drip edge	Finishes the roof edge	Steel, in the fascia colors
J-channel, F-channel, miter divider, brick mould cover, undersill	Finishes cut edges and openings	12 ft lengths

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Rollex good quality?

Rollex paints and roll forms its own trim on its own line, its fascia and vented soffit are on more than a million U.S. homes, and it puts a lifetime, non-prorated chalk and fade warranty behind the finish. That warranty is the tell: a maker doesn’t cover fade at full value for life unless the paint holds.

What colors do Rollex soffit and fascia come in?

Rollex runs its soffit, fascia, drip edge and trim coil in shared colors such as white, brown, bronze, Norwegian Wood and forest green, and it matches color across its products so the pieces agree on the house. The steel fascia is made in the steel siding colors. Make the final pick from a painted sample held against the siding outdoors, because a screen or a chip under indoor light shifts color.

Does Rollex soffit need to be vented?

Over any eave with an attic behind it, yes. Vented System 3 panels let air in along the overhang so it can move up and out the ridge, which keeps the attic cold and dry and keeps ice dams from building at the eave. Use solid panels where there’s no attic above, like a porch ceiling.

How do you keep metal fascia from rippling?

Leave it room to move. Metal grows and shrinks with every temperature swing, so tuck the top under the drip edge, nail only along the bottom lip, and leave each nail a hair loose so the fascia can slide.