Flashing

Roof Flashing

Flashing is used by roofers, bricklayers, and rain gutter installers to divert water from unwanted areas into the gutters or past the fascia. Your house may have a style of flashing known as D-Metal, a type of drip edge. In our 20 years of experience, we have found that water may wick back from the shingle edge, run down the face of the D-Metal, and run down the fascia board, staining and deteriorating the condition of your paint and/or wood. Most of the time we are unable to properly install rain gutters under D-metal flashing without damaging the flashing or shingle, or the drip edge is too small to allow the gutters to stay tucked over any distance. In order to remedy this situation, we recommend installing counter flashing on top of the existing D-metal style flashing to extend the edge so that the water will travel a path that leads it to the center of the gutter rather than down behind the gutter.