How To Flash A Metal Roof

Since most ordinary homeowners do not have all the necessary know how or significant knowledge of basic roofing principles along with experience of working on an actual roof all day in the sun with the sweat pouring down the face as you work on flashing all the dormers chimneys and roof vents or shingling away for hours on end and doing it right taking on the installation of a metal roof.

How to flash a metal roof.

I m going to install one between each panel directly in the center. Bend the corner flashing tightly around the corner. Step flashing on roof peak. Apply butyl tape sealant to the bottom of an offset cleat and install the cleat six inches above the chimney base.

Choose the appropriate flashing size. Rivet the pan flashing to the sidewall flashing. One common method is to lay the edge metal under the eaves membrane and over the rake. If the roof runs flat up against the brick.

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. We will be depending. This build is a porch addition on an existing metal building home. Protect the eave from ice dams and sideways rain step one in steep slope roofing is the edge flashing.

In this video i cover installing a roof boot for a vent pipe in a metal roof. It turned out really beautiful but the flashing isn t done correctly. How to install metal roof flashing against brick step 1. If you do not wish to form your own corner flashing you can buy pre bent pieces and cut them to size or use a piece of corrugated aluminum which is easier to bend.

Two ways to flash roof edges. Install base flashing under shingles or over metal roofing material. Roof shingle over step flashing. Usually 8 inch flashing will work but any size will work well.

Screw the pan flashing to the roof with gasket screws. Details concrete masonry roofing wrb flashing.