Metal Roof Pitch Transition Flashing For Wood Roof

Roofing the right way installing wall counter flashing for a new metal roof.

Metal roof pitch transition flashing for wood roof.

Repeat step 3 on the opposite end of the roof transition. This roof was done with the right stuff. Measure 1 1 2 from bottom edge of transition flashing. It s the same piece and i m going to show you how to install that now.

Roofs peel off from the edges so it is critical to hold them tight with the roof deck sealed on the outside we turn to flashing the edges with metal and membranes metal drip edge flashing image details roofing wrb flashing. The intention of a cricket flashing is to divert the water and debris around the chimney rather than allowing it to collect behind the chimney. Transition flashing is also referred to as pitch break trim and comes high to low or low to high. This flashing detail is important to maintain the integrity of the roof and it also helps to prevent oil canning as you can see from the picture.

After bottom roofing panels have been installed set one piece of transition flashing down where the top portion non hemmed of the transition flashing lies flat on the upper roof. The cost of transition flashing will depend upon the gauge and the type of paint finish. If you look here at the lower slope roof you can see that we ve already put panel on it and installed z trim as we have been doing elsewhere on this project. Install bottom roofing panels first.

The piece that allows us to join the two different slopes is the pitch transition trim. Just simple 3d animated digital instructions on how to install transition trim on a masterrib metal roof. The nz metal roof and wall cladding code of practice recommends using a cricket flashing see figure 3 where the width of the penetration is more than 600 mm or the roof pitch is below 10. This roof was correctly done about 6 years ago by our own crew.

You can see the transition flashing which separates the two roof planes at the pitch change. The transition trim is located where the two different pitches meet so the metal roof does not leak. Aug 4 2014 no sales pitch or other fluff. Masterrib is a 36 w.