How To Install A Gutter Drip Edge

As long as there is a slight pitch say 1 2 in.

How to install a gutter drip edge.

Be sure to tuck the drip edge under the starter strip and felt paper. The drip edge should be installed over a furring strip so that it tails off the fascia board. How to install a drip edge. Place a nail at one end then the other.

Please like and subscribe for more instructional videos. Roll the tape down the wall of the gutter pushing it firmly into curves and corners photo 3. Make sure the outer edge extends over the gutter. While the vertical leg should be placed 1 4 1 2 away from the fascia.

You may need to nail through the starter strip into the drip edge. Rotate your gutter upward pushing it away from you until the edge closest to the fascia fastens into the hook on the back of the bracket. Installing drip edge on your roof. Lay your gutter into the fascia brackets that you attached to the rafter tails.

With without rain gutters. Tools supplies tin sn. Slip the wide flat flange of the material all the way under the first course of roof shingles as illustrated. Slide the corner tight to the fascia.

Make sure to support the long end of the cut if you let it fall after cutting it will bend down and kink the drip edge. Next to a level fascia board the steeper the slope of the gutter the more it looks out of whack. Please ensure that the drip edge is extended over the gutter. It should be a minimum extension of two inch from the fascia board on the roof.

Ideally gutters should slope down toward downspouts 1 in. The correct placement of the drip edge is the top of the roof directly between the shingles and the fascia board. For starters this may not look good. Secure the drip edge with roofing cement.

Tear the paper backing off the tape and lightly adhere one edge of the tape to the top of the gutter. If it doesn t pull the drip edge out slightly from under the shingles. Per 16 ft but this is not always possible. This is important to protect damage to your fascia soffits rafters.

The roof leg should extend a minimum of 2 back onto the roof sheathing. To install a drip edge on a newly constructed roof or on a re roofing job attach the drip edge along the roof s eaves first. Make sure the corner is tight and that the bottom edge is tight to the fascia before nailing off the drip edge. In today s video we go over the basic techniques to installing drip edge and rake edge on your roof.