Roof Edge Coping No Show

Dmi metals offers edge metal coping systems for roofing contractors and installers.

Roof edge coping no show.

Inside you ll find test methods to determine wind resistance of fascia and coping. Drip edge or edge metal is a piece of metal that extends approximately 0 75 inch beyond the roof s edge to channel runoff into your gutters. The most critical point of the roof assembly is the roof edge. This detail shows a flat built up roof joining a lower pitched roof.

Metal edging along roof eaves prevents ice dams and roof damage ice dam myth 4. Ice dam myth 1 you need to heat the roof several feet up from the edge ice dam myth 2. Stop ice dams by shoveling snow off roof eave edges. Seal all cap to splice junctions with non hardening sealant by installer.

On the opposite side a continuous copper edge strip is attached to the coping and the lower edge is bent to form a drip. A ventilated roof will prevent ice dams ice dam myth 3. This juncture is the most susceptible to wind uplift failures and moisture infiltration. How to seal the edge of a roof.

Flat to sloped roof with gravel stop. Do not nail joint splices. Locate the miter for the appropriate corner. The roof composition flashing extends up the cant strip over the coping and part way down its face under the copper flashing.

The majority of roof damage created by high velocity winds is initiated at the perimeter or corners of the building and infiltrates throughout the field of the system. Simplify your projects and save money with aluminum coping systems. It also has a built in formed gravel stop. The lower edge of the flashing is hemmed and cleated to the sheathing at 12 o c.

Get free shipping on qualified drip edge flashing or buy online pick up in store today in the building materials department. To install it slide the flat wide flange underneath. A roof s main purpose is to protect the structure and all the belongings that lie beneath. As an integral part of the home s envelope sealing the edge of.

Here the flashing extends a maximum 4 under the built up roofing.