Step flashing is a rectangular piece of flashing bent 90 degrees in the center.
Roof step flashing installation.
Basic tools and materials get the job done.
Flashing can be purchased in pre formed styles to help you install it more easily and these include.
It is used for roof to wall flashing.
Small flashing pieces must be woven into the shingles as you work your way up the roof.
Roofing caulk galvanized roofing nails tin snips and step flashing either flat or prebent.
Galvanized sheet metal bent at a 90 degree angle i e.
Install the step flashing.
Multiple pieces of the flashing will be installed in layers with shingles to ensure the water flows away from the wall.
Step flashing is used to provide a water tight connection where roofing adjoins a vertical juncture.
Riley explains its easy to do when it comes to new construction.
Installing step flashing to prevent roof leaks the first rule of roof flashing is that water runs downhill.
Bent into an l shape.
But it doesn t work that way.
Once even a small section of roofing cement fails you ll have a leak.
Riley says most roofers use.
Step flashing protects the interface between a roof and a wall.
Riley shows his way the only way how to install step flashing.
Install step flashing so that it can be.
It is used for roof to wall flashing.
Continuous flashing against a sidewall is one way to install a roof but it s not the correct way.
The second rule is that the first rule isn t without exceptions.
By gary herman issue 182.
This flashing is typically field fabricated from a sheet of 26 ga.
Posted march 4 2017 filed under roof installation roof repair maintenance.
Align the step flashing with the leading edge of the starter course and nail it in place using one nail in the upper corner.
It may seem as if a single piece of flashing would offer more protection than many pieces of step flashing.
