Metal Roof Rake Edge Detail

It s sold by every building supplier without labels or instructions.

Metal roof rake edge detail.

On one side of the trim piece the roof side we have a fastening flange. Using t bevel which was previously locked to the pitch of your roof mark a line on the drip edge side of the gable up to the 3 mark. Gable or rake trim is attached to the sloping edges of roof gables to prevent wind driven rain from penetrating the exposed undersides of the roof panels that connect the ridge and the eave of your home. In fact rake is a term that is used to refer to the sloped sides at the end of the gable so it is not exactly on the roof.

The installation detail that we are looking at now is the exposed fastener gable trim. Metal rake edge roof flashing is treated as a commodity product. We also have the exterior face that has the drip edge on it and this piece caps off the gable of the roof. I always wonder though if i m detailing the flashing correctly at the peak of the roof and at the lower edges where it meets the eave flashing.

Detail and install the edge conditions. Always try to carry membrane felts over or up and over and down to ensure the roof membrane will always drain free and clear of any adjacent system. It is the extended outer part of gable roof that stretches out from the eave to the ridge with drip edge installed on it. Also try to ensure that the membrane does not rely on adhered or embedded sheet metal for water proofing.

The rake may overhang at the tip of gable or not overhang and lying flat. I d like to bend the metal roof panel around the metal roof rake edge detail 1 18 2005 within the installation process discussion of the residential metal roofing forum. How to cut and finish gable trim at the eave of a metal roof. What is a rake on a roof.

Attach rake edge to roof with a 1 painted neoprene metal to wood fastener spaced at. Make a 3 mark from the edge on top of the gable trim.