Rubber Roof Meets Brick

Metal roof flashing can be use to seal gaps between roof walls.

Rubber roof meets brick. When the roof of an addition garage porch or patio meets a brick wall the intersection creates a number of concerns. Installing new fully adhered epdm rubber system wall detail. 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. It is used to seal the gap between walls and intersecting roofs.

An ice dam occurs when snow melts and the water freezes when it hits the colder edges of your roof. It is commonly used in two story and side split houses. That lip is then set into a reglet or groove in this case cut into the mortar joint of the brick wall above. Metal roof flashing is a galvanized sheet metal bent at right angles with about eight to 12 inches on each side of the angle.

These kinds of houses often have a roof that butts against a wall. In the photo you can still see signs of an ice dam. 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. 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.

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. 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. This roof leaks during the snowy part of winter and during storms in the summer certainly due to poor flashing. 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 comes in 10 foot lengths or for step flashing 6 inch lengths.