Roofing Up To A Wall

I recommend 12 in wide step flashings bent for a 5 in.

Roofing up to a wall.

Below are two photographs of roof wall step flashing completed and effective of a slate roof against a brick wall below left and in process with step flashing against a dormer sidewall before the dormer siding has been put in place below right. I made this video this morning and i hope it help explain the flashing wall detail where the siding meets the roof. The narrower step flashing just isn t wide enough to protect the intersection fully. The flat roofing material must go up the wall a minimum of 12 or up the wall and over the top of the wall if the wall is less than 12 high.

A critical and often overlooked design detail is at the termination of a parapet coping at a wall. Begin by removing the shingles down to the wood sheathing and slip a strip of adhesive ice and water barrier available where roofing repair products are sold under the soffit main roof joint. Hand carrying obviously the cheapest but also the most physically taxing method is simply carrying the roofing materials by hand onto the roof. All exterior wall coverings whether it is wood siding vinyl siding brick or stone veneer stucco etc.

What you need nail gun measuring tape roofing hatchet framing square chalkline pry bar utility knife straightedge caulking gun tin snips. Finally the housewrap can be laid up on the wall to cover the top of the kickout diverter and step flashings. Proper roof wall abutment flashing examples. Bigger step flashing is better.

Depending on how the roofs join you may have to cut a slot to work it in far enough. Determining which truss or rafter is the girder may require a trip into the attic. Roof leg and a 7 in. The most common mistake at this intersection is to allow the metal coping to but up to the wall without the application of termination metal.

The omittance of the termination metal leaves an opening at the top of the coping and allows for moisture infiltration at the space between the parapet. For hip roofs the code specifies that hip and girder rafters or trusses be connected to exterior wall plates. Here is an attempt though maybe not a very good one to make the roof flashing serve also as a through the wall flashing with a tile roof.