Fitting Flashing To Metal Siding

On a wall to be covered with wood cement board vinyl or metal.

Fitting flashing to metal siding. Install the trim just under the drip cap. Have you wondered how to install steel siding on a pole barn. There are many different metal flashing shapes but in your case the metal laps over the fascia board perhaps 1 4 inch then is bent at a 90 degree angle to pass over the top of the fascia board then bent again at a 90 degree angle to go up the wall so that it extends behind the first row of vinyl siding. Cut a piece of 2 by 2 inch metal flashing the width of the opening with sheet metal cutters.

If this is a repair job the siding must also be removed and replaced with the flashing. Next comes another layer of building wrap installed like the first layer. To view more details about our metal flashings you can contact a corrugated metals representative at 1 800 621 5617. Corrugated metals incorporated proudly introduces metal flashings as the latest addition to its product line for metal roofing and siding.

Flashing is a strip of metal usually aluminum about 8 inches long and bent at 90 degrees with each side at least 5 inches wide. Slide one of the 2 inch wide edges under the siding at the top of the window with the opposite edge. Second step flashing needs to extend 8 to 14 inches above the shingles according to the national roofing contractors association nrca. Dog ears will be cut on both sides approximately inch from the bottom and then folded to create a stop that will locate itself on the top of the underlying row of siding but not be so long that it will run into the nails that hold the siding of the row being flashed.

Depending on the reveal of your siding the flashing length will be inch less than the reveal. In the past when customers purchased roofing and siding from us they manufactured flashings themselves or outsourced them to third parties. Apply a bead of caulk to the felt and set the window in the caulk. In this video i show how easy it can be.