How To Install A Gutter Apron

This is important to protect damage to your fascia soffits rafters.

How to install a gutter apron.

The purpose of gutter flashing is to seal the gap from the roofing shingles to the gutter. Slide the splices on as far as they ll go. It s much easier to join sections on the ground than to work from the top of a ladder. To install the top section is slipped under the starter shingle course the layer directly above the sheathing.

With without rain gutters. Installing drip edge on your roof. Nail the bent side of the flashing over the gutter at the same 16 inch locations down the entire piece. Project step by step 20 cutting the gutter.

Slide the ribbed end of the gutter flashing underneath the shingles and insert a 1 inch roofing nail every 16 inches down the center of the gutter flashing with a hammer. Home centers sell a gutter apron in 10 ft. Gutter flashing installation should be seen as a necessary step in the gutter replacement process. Then it is slipped under normal drip edge.

Begin by installing a slip joint splice on each end of an inside corner fitting. Tools supplies tin sn. To install the top section is slipped under the starter shingle course the layer directly above the sheathing. You may have to temporarily remove your hangers as you go or you can notch out the apron around them.

The hangers have a slight angle to them and actually you screw through the apron portion right into the fascia just works out that way because of the angle of the hanger. Then trim the first section of the gutter to length with tin snips. While a drip edge is about 2 1 2 inches wide on both sides of the fold a gutter apron will usually measure 4 inches or more above and below the fold. This process prevents rainwater from getting behind the gutter causing rot and decay which will ultimately lead to a roof replacement.

Use a square and pencil to mark the gutter length and cut to the line. Snap the sections together. A gutter apron is a bent piece of flashing that tucks up under the shingles and over the gutter. Cut a two inch long notch in the front lip of the gutter with tin snips to join a rain gutter section.