Once the apron s in place fasten it with sheet metal screws.
Prepping drip edge for gutters.
Home centers sell rolls of 6 in.
A drip edge or a gutter apron keeps your roof secure by filtering out all the water from the attic into the gutter.
Due to cohesion surface tension and other forces water droplets tend to stick to one another and to the surfaces they are on albeit slightly.
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A drip edge is designed to take advantage of those forces and along with gravity direct water into the gutter.
There was no way that the gutter installe was going to get the upper edge of the gutter behind the drip edge.
The drip edge further diverts it into the gutter.
Drip edge is a roof flashing that is installed at the leading edge of your shingle near the gutter it generally is a 1 x 3 or 1 x 2 piece of metal flashing slipped under the roofing material and over the top of the paper felting underneath the roofing shingles that hangs down into the gutter approximately 1.
Home centers sell rolls of 6 in.
Installing drip edge on a new roof or re roofing job.
If not installed properly this will impact the effectiveness of your whole gutter systems.
Drip edges have two key purposes.
If your roof has drip edge installed where the fascia meets your shingles with the gutter hung below the drip edge get some rolled flashing and tuck it up under the drip edge and over the top of the gutter.
Does the drip edge metal go under the tarpaper ice and water shield or underlayment on the eave.
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Once in place fasten the apron with sheet metal screws.
During installation the gutter is usually at the opposite end of the downspout but it will go up behind the drip edge by the time you align the gutter and get to the other end where the downspout is situated.
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Hence it is no longer behind the drip edge but you should make sure that the drip.
If there s a drip edge installed where the fascia meets your shingles and the gutter is hung below the drip edge get some roll flashing and tuck it up under the drip edge and over the top of the gutter.
If you are installing a roof system drip edges and gutter aprons play the main role.
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We can also relate it to gutter systems.
