How To Add Flashing To The Side Of Roof

It may seem as if a single piece of flashing would offer more protection than many pieces of step flashing.

How to add flashing to the side of roof. Galvanized sheet metal bent at a 90 degree angle i e. Cover with cap flashing. Bend the corner flashing tightly around the corner. The angle cut will be totally dependent on the pitch of the roof and will vary accordingly.

Slip in the flashing. Ensure it sits flat and extends at least 8 inches above the shingles. Skylights are typically flashed the same way as chimney flashing. Posted march 4 2017 filed under roof installation roof repair maintenance.

Cut an angle with tin snips on one side of the flashing piece from an end corner to the bend. Apply a thin bead of silicone around the opening of the vent pipe area and lay the membrane in place. Once even a small section of roofing cement fails you ll have a leak. Continuous flashing against a sidewall is one way to install a roof but it s not the correct way.

Cut some membrane material to seal between the vent flashing and the roof and cut an opening for the vent. Begin by removing the shingles at the affected area and removing old flashing if present. Take a second piece of flashing and set it down in place. It overlaps the roofing material on the downhill side resulting an an exposed flashing.

Lift the bottom shingle and slip in the kickout flashing. The metal flashing must overlap the material not the other way around. For roof vents flashing basically slides below the shingles. Next place your vent flashing on top of the membrane.

Bent into an l shape. Nail it in. This flashing is typically field fabricated from a sheet of 26 ga. Nail it to the sidewall or glue it if nailing isn t possible.

Step flashing is used to provide a water tight connection where roofing adjoins a vertical juncture. How to install step flashing with a wall corner. Use roofing nails to install the l shaped flashing flush with the roof and wall then cover it with roofing cement and reattach the roofer s felt. Bend it back so that it.

Then nail the new l shaped flashing under the builder s felt but above the fascia board.