Flashing is installed to surround roof features such as vents chimneys and skylights.
Roof to wall flashing.
Do not seal housewrap or building paper to step flashing.
The gibraltar building products l flashing protects your home the gibraltar building products l flashing protects your home from moisture infiltration where your wall meets your roof.
Recaulk the joints between the roof and the flashing.
Use step flashing that has a 2 to 4 inch longer vertical leg than normal.
Badly corroded flashing will need to be replaced.
Tape the top of step flashing with 4 inch wide minimum self adhering modified bitumen roof tape.
Roof flashing is a thin material usually galvanized steel that professional roofers use to direct water away from critical areas of the roof wherever the roof plane meets a vertical surface like a wall or a dormer.
Two ways to flash roof edges.
To install the roof wall flashing above the builder bent the top edge of the flashing into a 90 degree lip about 2 cm in width.
Galvanized steel is a trusted low maintenance product that is known for durability.
L shaped flashing is a versatile general use flashing used where a uniform or strengthened finish is needed on a 90 surface.
The shorter vertical plane is attached to the upper floor wall under the building paper the lower plane sits on top of the underlayment and under the shingles.
That lip is then set into a reglet or groove in this case cut into the mortar joint of the brick wall above.
Protect the eave from ice dams and sideways rain step one in steep slope roofing is the edge flashing.
Roofing cement can dry out and crumble away exposing joints to water.
Roof to wall flashing there have always been problems with the flashing details at head walls rake walls and chimneys especially if stucco brick or stone veneer is used.
Renew flashing seals by chipping out old caulking and mortar along the edges of the flashing.
All exterior wall coverings whether it is wood siding vinyl siding brick or stone veneer stucco etc.
Roof to wall flashing is bent at a 110.
At roof to wall intersections see figure 1.
Details concrete masonry roofing wrb flashing.
Must be kept up off the surface of the roof a minimum 1 some manufacturers of exterior wall coverings require a minimum of 2.
