I have a 2 story colonial style house in MA.  Siding is stained red cedar clapboards and the rake boards are painted pine.  The rake boards are getting old and weathered with some soft spots that I have been maintaining with wood filler.  I want to replace the rake boards with PVC (Azek)…..I have already replaced all the corner trim boards with PVC.  I watched a couple of guys re-do the rake boards on my neighbor’s house with PVC.  I spoke to one of the guys and he commented that it is a time consuming job as all the shingle nails that penetrate the rake boards had to be removed and replaced.  I asked if he would be interested in replacing the rakes on my house and he wasn’t interested.   I’m not to thrilled with doing the work myself and am wondering if there are any alternatives or tips for making this job a little easier.  The rakes have a second rake on top of the first just under the roof shingles….don’t remember the name for this board….double rake or shadow rake? 

FWIW I have the roof reshingled a few years ago and asked the roofer if he would do the rakes at that time.  I also wanted to do the rake that is on a front jog of the house….I told the roofer that I would mill and build the rake for the front jog if his crew could atttach it.  He agreed to that. They didn’t do a very good job of attaching it and I wound up having to add additional screws to get it to lie flat.  Probably a good idea that they didn’t do the rakes on the ends of the house……ok roofers…..ng carpenters.