How To Seal A Hip Roof To A Wall

It comes in 10 foot lengths or for step flashing 6 inch lengths.

How to seal a hip roof to a wall.

I recommend 12 in wide step flashings bent for a 5 in. Next i ll remove the hip cap get our z trim cut them to length and install them. Bigger step flashing is better. Roof leg and a 7 in.

The narrower step flashing just isn t wide enough to protect the intersection fully. 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. Yes even flat roof to wall intersections are not being properly done. A hip roof is a roof in which the roof slopes upward from all four exterior walls to meet at a central ridge.

Finally the housewrap can be laid up on the wall to cover the top of the kickout diverter and step flashings. Metal roof flashing is a galvanized sheet metal that is bent at a 90 degree angle about 8 to 12 inches on each side of the angle. Gaf mastering the roof chapter 13 flashing is used to seal and protects joints in a building from water penetration by direct the flow of water away from. The most common roof to wall intersections involve either a gable roof with its ridge running perpendicular to the wall or a shed roof that slopes downward away from the wall.

Proper roof wall abutment flashing examples. 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. There are no gable ends on a building with a hip roof. It is used to seal the gap between walls and intersecting roofs.

In the same way that we use z trim for the installation of end wall flashing and sidewall transition we re going to do the exact same thing here on the hip.