How To Kickout Flashing Siding

Next install a course of peel and stick membrane along the eaves.

How to kickout flashing siding.

Divert water away from the siding at the bottom of the roof with this critical flashing detail. Install fastflash along the wall at the roof edge. Place the back edge of the kick out flashing over the caulking and attach with a galvanized nail to the vertical wall. Make a 90 bend.

We usually begin by installing a piece of peel and stick flashing folding it into the corner between the roof and the wall. Align the back side of the bent kick out flashing with the step flashing and shingle attached to the vertical wall. As an alternative to the diverter create a kickout from metal flashing as shown in fig. Lift the bottom shingle and slip in the kickout flashing.

Nail it to the sidewall or glue it if nailing isn t possible. Start with coil stock. Kick out flashing a somewhat forgotten practice except by the best roofers addresses this risk at the most vulnerable intersection between sloped roofs and walls. Apply waterproofing membrane where the bottom of the roof meets the wall 1.

Kickout flashing is improperly fashioned and improperly installed on a regular basis but it s actually quite easy to make a piece of kickout flashing with a longnose pliers and a piece of step. Step 3 install the kickout flashing. Cover with cap flashing. Run a small line of caulking down the end of the adjacent step flashing.

If the kick out and step flashing can t tuck behind the siding screw on cap flashing to cover it then caulk along the top. Slip in the flashing. Also make sure to slip it behind all j channels and roof flashing. Be sure to leave space between the end of the fascia and the wall where fastflash wrb and siding can slide up.

The job shown at left is typical for a reroof where we cut in and begin detailing the intersections first. Measure the first bend. The kickout goes in next followed by standard step flashings. Use a knife and a straightedge to cut a 12 in.

Cut a diverter from aluminum trim sheet making sure it sits on the nail hem of the last full course fig. Here s the solution step 1 waterproof the wall.