How To Install Vinyl Drip Edge For Vinyl Gutters

Cut your soffit pieces.

How to install vinyl drip edge for vinyl gutters. Drip edge flashing can be used for new construction and reroofing projects. Made from high quality vinyl construction. Most overhangs are 6 or 1. The roof leg should extend a minimum of 2 back onto the roof sheathing.

You may need to nail through the starter strip into the drip edge. Make sure to support the long end of the cut if you let it fall after cutting it will bend down and kink the drip edge. Secure the drip edge with roofing cement. Make sure the corner is tight and that the bottom edge is tight to the fascia before nailing off the drip edge.

Next attach drainpipes to carry water from the downspout outlets to the ground and away from your house. Use along gutter line of the roof edge. To install vinyl gutters you ll need to start by installing downspout outlets on the edges of your house so water can drain properly from the gutters. Slide one end into the j channel and nail the far side of the soffit to the wood fascia board using one nail to keep the soffit in place until you install the vinyl fascia.

Slide the corner tight to the fascia. Install by nailing under shingles. Place the drip edge down aligning it so water will drip into the gutters. Just be sure they re positioned high up under the shingles.

Nail high up on the drip edge so that the shingles will cover the nails. If necessary secure the ends of the drip edge with short roofing nails. While the vertical leg should be placed 1 4 1 2 away from the fascia. Place a nail at one end then the other.

Then secure gutter hangers along your house and fit the gutter sections into them. Drip edge is used to direct rainwater off of the roof and into your gutter system. Since soffit runs perpendicular to the wall you will be cutting many short pieces depending on the width of your overhang. The end with the flange or flare should point down and away from the roof.

Be sure to tuck the drip edge under the starter strip and felt paper. To install a drip edge on a newly constructed roof or on a re roofing job attach the drip edge along the roof s eaves first. Nailing edge with 1 in.