Rubber Roof Meets Brick

Flashing the connection where a shingled roof and a brick wall meet is complicated.

Rubber roof meets brick.

It takes coordination between the masons and roofers and it requires lots of custom. 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. Installing new fully adhered epdm rubber system wall detail.

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. These kinds of houses often have a roof that butts against a wall. Here the rubber roof will need to run up the walls and glue to the sheathing. Metal roof flashing can be use to seal gaps between roof walls.

On two sides the roof abuts a parapet a short wall common around flat roofs as well as a wall for the third floor. By dan morrison and sal alfano september 07 2017. Metal roof flashing is a galvanized sheet metal bent at right angles with about eight to 12 inches on each side of the angle. 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.

Courtesy of max baker and the national research council of canada. 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. Combine step flashing on the roof with through wall flashing at the masonry. It is used to seal the gap between walls and intersecting roofs.

Roof membrane temperatures ottawa canada summer day. If you didn t get it right you concentrated the stresses at roof edges and you could suck in a parapet or tear or rip a membrane at the parapet photographs 3 and 4. 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. Flashing the brick to roof connection.