Flush House Roof

Flashing is installed to surround roof features such as vents chimneys and skylights.

Flush house roof. Lever the split end of the hammer up to pull the nail out of the roof. Attach a sill plate to the house between the two side supports of the porch. In sum single piece roof wall flashing is a bad idea in the hands of typical residential roofers and re roofers and this approach has been found by home inspectors to be unreliable in practice. Slide the split ends of the hammer under and around the nail.

Although roof flashing is occasionally fabricated from plastic roofing felt or rubber it is usually made of rust resistant metal galvanized steel aluminum or copper. After that to make it flush with the roof of the existing house cut the two outer rafters. Galvanized sheet metal is most common but aluminum and copper find occasional use in specialty situations. Refrain from pulling out the structural nails that are not flush to the surface.

Use the split end of a claw hammer to pry out nails still holding bits of shingles onto the roof. Make a cutting on one of the sides of the horizontal roof beam on an angle. The sill plate or piece of wood that secures the supports to the roof should sit flush to the top edges of the roof support columns. Roof flashing is a thin material usually galvanized steel that professional roofers use to direct water away from critical areas of the roof wherever the roof plane meets a vertical surface like a wall or a dormer.

Step 4 position the rafters on top of the sill plate.