Rubber Roof Meets Brick

It is used to seal the gap between walls and intersecting roofs.

Rubber roof meets brick.

These kinds of houses often have a roof that butts against a wall. That lip is then set into a reglet or groove in this case cut into the mortar joint of the brick wall above. It comes in 10 foot lengths or for step flashing 6 inch lengths. In the photo you can still see signs of an ice dam.

The soffit that meets the roof is one of the toughest areas to waterproof. For more information on how to properly flash roof to wall intersections see the web pages roof to wall flashing and tile eave to rake wall installation. 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. To install the roof wall flashing above the builder bent the top edge of the flashing into a 90 degree lip about 2 cm in width.

Installing new fully adhered epdm rubber system wall detail. This roof leaks during the snowy part of winter and during storms in the summer certainly due to poor flashing. The roof framing itself in this situation is much like any other traditional. An ice dam occurs when snow melts and the water freezes when it hits the colder edges of your roof.

Drip edge metal valley flashing dormer chimney and kickout flashing are types of roof flashing that shed water away from the connections between roofs walls chimneys and other building assemblies. It is commonly used in two story and side split houses. A rubber roof known in the roofing business as an epdm ethylene propylene diene terpolymer roof has a lot of advantages and only a few disadvantages one of the big advantages to rubber is the cost although a homeowner must use a licensed installer to lay down this roof the cost of the entire job still favorably compares to the cost for other types of roofing. Metal roof flashing is a galvanized sheet metal bent at right angles with about eight to 12 inches on each side of the angle.

All real brick or stone through the roof walls and chimneys and those that set on lintels always have metal exposed at all intersections with the roof.