How To Install Step Flashing Under Siding

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How to install step flashing under siding. Take the first flashing piece at roof bottom and slice it at around 4 inches with tin snips. This flashing is typically field fabricated from a sheet of 26 ga. How to install step flashing under siding 1. Cut a piece.

Posted march 4 2017 filed under roof installation roof repair maintenance. Cover tops of step. Once even a small section of roofing cement fails you ll have a leak. But it doesn t work that way.

Here s how to do it right the first time. Shingles need to be fastened with nails in the top area and. Slice along the bend line about 4 inches into the first piece of flashing at the bottom of the roof with tin snips. When reaching the.

Nail flashing to roof deck only. Lay a shingle over the step flashing starting at the roof edge. Step flashing is used to provide a water tight connection where roofing adjoins a vertical juncture. How to install step flashing step 1.

Lay shingles over step flashing from the roof edge. Fasten that shingle with two galvanized nails at the. It may seem as if a single piece of flashing would offer more protection than many pieces of step flashing. Longer than the shingle s exposure.

Cut step flashing pieces to be 10 in. Wide and 2 in. Bent into an l shape. Nail through flashing into shingle do not extend flashing above top of shingle and.