How To Flash Around Skylight With Metal Roof

Align the grooves on the skylight fins.

How to flash around skylight with metal roof.

Properly installing a skylight requires detailed skylight flashing. How to put a skylight in a corrugated metal roof 1. Deduct the width of the fins on each side of the skylight and mark another outline on the roof to define the area to. Install from the bottom up lapping each piece on top of the lower one.

Place the skylight unit on the roof at the desired location. Then fold the tabs on all sides of the skylight and screw them down. If you have to replace shingles around a skylight examine the old flashing. Install 6 in wide strips of a self sticking waterproof underlayment.

It cannot be flush mounted. Metal roofing manufacturers can explain how to flash their products against skylights and other protrusions. Flashing a skylight may involve sealant as one line of defense against water infiltration but above all there must be good flashing. On this project adam was called out to inspect leaks around a skylight.

This clip shows how you can easily install a polycarbonate. Instructional video on how to properly install and trim out a square penetration on a standing seam metal roof. Repeat to install the flashing to all sides of the skylight frame. A skylight in a metal roof must be curb mounted in order to be properly flashed.

Some skylights come with a kit and you don t have to build the aprons and install step fl. We had to tear out all of the old flashing. Once the metal flashings are ready place the pieces between the roof and skylight above the roof and under the skylight.