Galvanized sheet metal bent at a 90 degree angle i e.
Flashing roof meets siding.
I see most guys leaving the old step flashing and hardly anyone removing the siding and reinstalling ice shield and step.
This illustration shows proper flashing at a headwall condition.
When a roof s rake meets a wall on a split level the siding is applied down on the roof.
Flashing where wall meets roof when you have a section of roof typically second floor where it meets a wall how do you guys flash when there is existing vinyl siding or wood siding.
The solution to rotting sidewalls is a small piece of bent metal called a kickout flashing at roofing suppliers which simply directs all that water away from the wall.
There is another place that roof flashing has now invaded.
I am using a 7 16 high profile metal panel the siding on the house is 8 cedar lap.
Step flashing is used to provide a water tight connection where roofing adjoins a vertical juncture.
The exterior of a house presents plenty of opportunity for leaks.
A headwall is a level junction where a roof meets a wall.
Posted march 4 2017 filed under roof installation roof repair maintenance.
This flashing is typically field fabricated from a sheet of 26 ga.
If your flashing is new you may need a bonding primer.
Headwall flashing should extend up behind the exterior wall covering and down over the roof covering material as you see here.
And in our experience when a single piece of flashing extends only a few inches under the shingles especially on a long roof slope and worse on a roof that happens to slope slightly towards rather than away from the abutting vertical building wall the accumulated roof drainage water near the bottom end of the roof wall intersection will overwhelm the width of the flashing and because it.
Flashing is a strip of metal usually aluminum about 8 inches long and bent at 90.
Unless you re careful step flashing can allow water from the roof to slip behind the gutter and get behind the siding and even the housewrap.
I made this video this morning and i hope it help explain the flashing wall detail where the siding meets the roof.
A key part of my approach is using a special piece of flashing at this.
Traditionally the flashing was installed and hidden under the siding.
Step flashing is used where a roof meets a wall to cover the junction of those elements preventing leaks.
Bent into an l shape.
Today the flashing is on top of the siding.
A common problem area is the point where a gutter dies into an adjoining wall as the photo below illustrates.
It is at the back of the porch roof where the roof meets the house siding.
