Flashing Roof Meets Siding

Galvanized sheet metal bent at a 90 degree angle i e.

Flashing roof meets siding.

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. A headwall is a level junction where a roof meets a wall. 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. 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.

Bent into an l shape. Flashing is a strip of metal usually aluminum about 8 inches long and bent at 90. I made this video this morning and i hope it help explain the flashing wall detail where the siding meets the roof. I cut 1 1 2 the lowest setting i could get with a circular saw from the siding where it met the shingle roof so i could slide my endwall flashing 3 1 2 under the siding.

It is at the back of the porch roof where the roof meets the house siding. 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. Even if the roof has been properly flashed against the sidewall this one hasn t water can still run down the side of the house and behind the siding causing rot.

Traditionally the flashing was installed and hidden under the siding. I see most guys leaving the old step flashing and hardly anyone removing the siding and reinstalling ice shield and step. Step flashing is used to provide a water tight connection where roofing adjoins a vertical juncture. A key part of my approach is using a special piece of flashing at this.

Roof flashing on a porch roof. Step flashing is used where a roof meets a wall to cover the junction of those elements preventing leaks. This illustration shows proper flashing at a headwall condition. Headwall flashing should extend up behind the exterior wall covering and down over the roof covering material as you see here.

Posted march 4 2017 filed under roof installation roof repair maintenance. 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. I am using a 7 16 high profile metal panel the siding on the house is 8 cedar lap. When a roof s rake meets a wall on a split level the siding is applied down on the roof.

The exterior of a house presents plenty of opportunity for leaks.