Kickout flashing keeps water out of walls rain should run off the roof and into the gutter.
Roof to wall step flashing detail.
Step flashing protects the interface between a roof and a wall.
N at roof to wall intersections see figure 1.
Step flashing step flashing redirects the water back onto the shingle.
Learn how to install it below.
N use flashing cement at joints to help secure flashing.
How to install roof flashing against a wall.
N tape the top of step flashing with 4 inch wide minimum self adhering modified bitumen roof tape.
Step flashings are interwoven with the shingles and act essentially as shingles with an upturned leg to allow a transition of the vertical drainage plane of the wall to the drainage plane of the roof.
N do not seal housewrap or building paper to step flashing.
Stepped flashing is used where a sloped shingled roof intersects a vertical wall.
Step flashing is a rectangular piece of flashing bent 90 degrees in the center.
So we instruct our roofers to run the ice barrier membrane and the roof underlayment up the sidewalls.
Small flashing pieces must be woven into the shingles as you work your way up the roof.
Apron flashings if you are new to roofing or fitting roof flashings this really is a bread and butter place to start master this and the slightly more difficult flashings like step flashings will seem a lot easier.
Even if one piece of step flashing fails the flashing and shingle below it start the process over again.
When fitting cover flashings to a flat roof like the.
Wind driven rain and snow can penetrate between step flashing pieces and wet the sidewalls and the roof.
Step flashing protects the gap where roofs meet walls by weaving into the roof shingles.
It is used for roof to wall flashing.
N use step flashing that has a 2 to 4 inch lon ger vertical leg than normal.
Click pic to enlarge the video below will show you how to fit lead roof flashing like the ones seen in the picture above.
We ask for 6 inches up the wall.
Multiple pieces of the flashing will be installed in layers with shingles to ensure the water flows away from the wall.
At the bottom of the roof water needs to be directed.
