Roof Kickout Flashing Detail

Place your kickout flashing on the base of the roof snugly against the wall.

Roof kickout flashing detail.

Kickout flashing is a simple little piece of metal that directs water out and away from a house wall when a roof surface ends at the wall. Kickout flashings are used where a lower roofline terminates against a vertical wall. When the bottom piece of step flashing is placed so that. 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.

Be sure to leave space between the end of the fascia and the wall where fastflash wrb and siding can slide up. Install fastflash along the wall at the roof edge. Instead buy a premade kickout flashing piece. In a neighborhood of 30 homes i expect to find at least 28 with exterior problems and most of these will have no kickouts.

Here s how to install kickout and step flashing. When installing metal or rubber membrane roofs use continuous flashing rather than pieces of step flashing. Ensure that the kick out flashing is large enough to handle expected storm water flows. Kickout flashing might be one of the most important details to get right when it comes to preventing major water damage to a building.

Roof to wall flashing is bent at a 110. Briefly remove the piece and apply roofing cement where it will sit. While some professional roofers will make their kickout flashing by hand in copper if you re using galvanized steel it will be too tough to bend properly. On most of these jobs there is one detail the kickout flashing at roof wall intersections that i see done wrong most of the time.

When they do exist they will be of substandard quality. The kickout is installed above the rain gutter and or drip edge flashing where the roof meets a vertical wall. It kicks out rain water and diverts it away from the lower wall. The shorter vertical plane is attached to the upper floor wall under the building paper the lower plane sits on top of the underlayment and under the shingles.

By andy engel issue 244 june july 2014. One flashing detail that s often done wrong is where the flashing at the bottom of a roof meets a wall.