How To Seal Roof To Wall

Before attempting to get to the roof you must make sure that the ladder is secure.

How to seal roof to wall.

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. Providing the shed roof is at a steep enough angle to ensure the rain is not blown up the shed roof and over the top into the gap along the wall then the traditional lead flashing where the lead is let into the wall along a mortar line will do the trick. Here is an attempt though maybe not a very good one to make the roof flashing serve also as a through the wall flashing with a.

To seal your roof flashing you first have to get on the roof. 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. It is used to seal the gap between walls and intersecting roofs. 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. Climbing a ladder and walking on the roof should only be done in shoes that will provide a great deal of.