How To Flash Dormer Metal Roofing Abc

Metal flashing can t be soldered making a leakproof joint where the flashing turns the corner at the bottom of the dormer called for special attention but i have a detail that handled the situation nicely.

How to flash dormer metal roofing abc.

Run the base flashing 4 to 5 in. Notch the first step flashing leaving a 1 in. Flap to bend around the front of the dormer. With the end wall flashing in place i use stitch screws to attach it to the z trim and to the gable trim.

Nail along its upper edge. It s very important to make sure that you grab the z channel that s below and make sure that you re in the outside leg of the z channel. Bend the flap down and nail along the top edge. Editorial adviser mike guertin is a builder and remodeler from east greenwich r i.

Add shingles and additional step. One common method is to lay the edge metal under the eaves membrane and over the rake. Beyond the dormer and cut the top section along the dormer edge. Our host david mackey discusses techniques used in installing valley panel using the sl 16 standing seam roofing system from american building components.

Two ways to flash roof edges. For photos and the four steps to flash a dormer click the view pdf button below. The piece that s going to allow us to join the panels on the lower slope and the panels on the higher slope is the pitch transition flashing or the pitch change trim. Details roofing wrb flashing.

If you look here at the lower slope roof you can see that we ve already put panel on it and installed z trim as we have been doing elsewhere on this project. Protect the eave from ice dams and sideways rain step one in steep slope roofing is the edge flashing. Photos by andy engel except where noted. Because this type of metal flashing can t be soldered making a leak proof joint where the flashing turns the corner at the bottom of the dormer called for special attention but i have a detail that handled the situation nicely.

I m going to install one between each panel directly in the center.