How To Install Drip Edge After Gutters

Secure the drip edge with roofing cement.

How to install drip edge after gutters.

Place a nail at one end then the other. This is important to protect damage to your fascia soffits rafters. With without rain gutters. Install drip edges on the eaves first.

How to install a drip edge. Be sure to tuck the drip edge under the starter strip and felt paper. It is best to install the drip on a warm day. You may need to nail through the starter strip into the drip edge.

A furring edge is a strip of one by two wood you install on the vertical surface of the house just beneath the roof s edge. Slip the wide flat flange of the material all the way under the first course of roof shingles as illustrated. 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. As always thanks for watching.

In this video i just show a quick install of some drip edging and how to cut corners. Tools supplies tin sn. Make sure the corner is tight and that the bottom edge is tight to the fascia before nailing off the drip edge. If it doesn t pull the drip edge out slightly from under the shingles.

Leave a reply. A drip edge has to be resistant to possible erosion and should be 36 gauge or larger. Slide the corner tight to the fascia. Make sure the outer edge extends over the gutter.

The roof leg should extend a minimum of 2 back onto the roof sheathing. Place the drip edge down aligning it so water will drip into the gutters. While the vertical leg should be placed 1 4 1 2 away from the fascia. When you install the drip edge over this strip it keeps the lower flange further from the home s siding which helps to keep water further from the home.