The drip edge should be installed over a furring strip so that it tails off the fascia board.
How to install a gutter drip edge.
Please ensure that the drip edge is extended over the gutter.
This is important to protect damage to your fascia soffits rafters.
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Lay your gutter into the fascia brackets that you attached to the rafter tails.
The roof leg should extend a minimum of 2 back onto the roof sheathing.
You may need to nail through the starter strip into the drip edge.
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Per 16 ft but this is not always possible.
Be sure to tuck the drip edge under the starter strip and felt paper.
If it doesn t pull the drip edge out slightly from under the shingles.
Cut the tape with a scissors or a razor knife photo 2.
As long as there is a slight pitch say 1 2 in.
Roll the tape down the wall of the gutter pushing it firmly into curves and corners photo 3.
It should be a minimum extension of two inch from the fascia board on the roof.
Make sure the outer edge extends over the gutter.
While the vertical leg should be placed 1 4 1 2 away from the fascia.
Place a nail at one end then the other.
Make sure the corner is tight and that the bottom edge is tight to the fascia before nailing off the drip edge.
Secure the drip edge with roofing cement.
Slide the corner tight to the fascia.
For starters this may not look good.
Installing drip edge on your roof.
Slip the wide flat flange of the material all the way under the first course of roof shingles as illustrated.
With without rain gutters.
The correct placement of the drip edge is the top of the roof directly between the shingles and the fascia board.
Work wrinkles and bubbles flat.
Tear the paper backing off the tape and lightly adhere one edge of the tape to the top of the gutter.
Make sure to support the long end of the cut if you let it fall after cutting it will bend down and kink the drip edge.
To install a drip edge on a newly constructed roof or on a re roofing job attach the drip edge along the roof s eaves first.
Ideally gutters should slope down toward downspouts 1 in.
Next to a level fascia board the steeper the slope of the gutter the more it looks out of whack.
In today s video we go over the basic techniques to installing drip edge and rake edge on your roof.
