Flashing Green Metal Roofing Dormer

This flashing protects your roof from water damage.

Flashing green metal roofing dormer.

You can bed it in roofing cement. Gable dormer junctions dormer roof junctions with profiled metal roofing always present a tricky area of flashing and their detailing is often conveniently overlooked by designers. I have my valley custom made with water trough to help with leaking b. Today i tried to put on the flashing around my dormers again.

I got one done and then the rain came and i had to find other things to work on. The heavy snows and ice of winter 2013 14 compounded the problem when ice damming on the roof backed up into the dormer and poured through to the foyer ceiling creating the situation shown above. Where it is not possible or. 10 galvanized dormer flashing.

Cover the membrane with a metal closure flashing. By alide elkink branz technical writer t he simplest way to deal with dormer flashing is if possible to avoid the dormer. Again fasten only to the roof with a nail through the flashing and the shingle. And so on continuing up the side of the dormer.

At the top fold a closure flashing with a piece of sheet metal that can tuck into the crotch where roof meets soffit. The next shingle extends below the previous step flashing. With a reputation for solving water leaks the family called mosby building arts for help. Dormer flashing is installed under the siding and on top of the roof steel at the bottom of a dormer or endwall.

So i finished. 6 at the top roll the roof underlayment up onto the soffit and use peel and stick to seal the roof soffit connection. Repeat shingle step flashing shingle step flashing all the way up both sides of the dormer. When installed properly the steel dormer flashing is a low maintenance option that allows you peace of mind knowing your roofline is properly flashed.

The top joinery of both valleys when they meet on the same plane of roof is shown here. Because this type of metal flashing can t be soldered making a leak proof joint where the flashing turns the corner at the bottom of the dormer called for special attention but i have a detail that handled the situation nicely. This dormer flashing kit is designed to flash common spots for water seepage such as edges of skylights and chimneys as well as the intersection of the roof deck and dormer walls. To read pdf files you need the adobe acrobat reader 6 0 or higher.