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How to install step flashing on a roof.
Many people who have porches attached to their homes have problems with water leaks at the junction of the porch and the exterior wall of the home.
How to install porch roof flashing.
Multiple pieces of the flashing will be installed in layers with shingles to ensure the water flows away from the wall.
It may seem as if a single piece of flashing would offer more protection than many pieces of step flashing.
Before running the first row of shingles install a piece of step flashing along the sidewall so that it sits tightly against the roof.
These leaks are almost always caused by improper flashing installation or the absence of roof flashing altogether.
Bent into an l shape.
Then sink two nails in the wall near the top one on each face.
Over the roof deck.
Bend it down and back to sit flat on the corner.
Install the step flashing.
Vent pipe flashing as the name implies this flashing is usually.
Corner flashing comes first.
Lay a bead of.
Continuous flashing against a sidewall is one way to install a roof but it s not the correct way.
Length to extend 5 in.
It is used for roof to wall flashing.
This allows each step flashing piece to overlap the piece below.
It is used for roof to wall flashing.
Once you ve shingled up to the sidewall cut a piece of step flashing at a 45ยบ angle from the outside corner to the bent seam.
Flashing can be purchased in pre formed styles to help you install it more easily and these include.
This flashing is typically field fabricated from a sheet of 26 ga.
But it doesn t work that way.
Posted march 4 2017 filed under roof installation roof repair maintenance.
Up the wall and 5 in.
Step flashing is a rectangular piece of flashing bent 90 degrees in the center.
Nail flashing to roof deck only.
Step flashing is used to provide a water tight connection where roofing adjoins a vertical juncture.
Galvanized sheet metal bent at a 90 degree angle i e.
Align the step flashing with the leading edge of the starter course and nail it in place using one nail in the upper corner.
