Putting Up Drip Edge On Trim Siding

These strips installed at the bottom will make your first row of siding angle out to match the rest of the rows.

Putting up drip edge on trim siding.

Secure the drip edge with roofing cement. At the bottom make a 1 in. This is important to protect damage to your fascia soffits rafters. Installing drip edge on your roof.

Keep ends of adjoining starter strips at least 1 4 inch apart to allow for expansion. Just be sure they re positioned high up under the shingles. Cut one piece of drip edge square on both edges to fit against the end of the roof. Cut the overlapping piece with the top edge to fit square against the end of the roof and the overhanging edge to fold around the corner.

Slide the corner tight to the fascia. If necessary secure the ends of the drip edge with short roofing nails. Cut along the corner of the facing edge. Find your most beat up pieces of siding and rip them down into 1 1 4 in.

Slide the overlapping corner under the other overhanging piece of drip edge. The drip leg is at least 3 4 in. When installing the starter strips allow a 1 8 inch space for corner posts and j channels for expansion. Tools supplies tin sn.

Nail in the center of the nailing slots. Above the bottom of the wall sheathing as a guide. Install these fragile starter strips with a 15 gauge. Make sure the corner is tight and that the bottom edge is tight to the fascia before nailing off the drip edge.

As seen in m. Place a nail at one end then the other. Create a drip edge. And i include a 1 4 in.

Does the drip edge metal go under the tarpaper ice and water shield or underlayment on the eave. Get the real story about drip edge placement. With without rain gutters. Bend the wide surface of the channel inward at this cut to make a drip edge tab and slide the tab under the sill channel.

Snap a line 1 in. To seal the edge of a siding panel where it has been cut and to secure it to the wall you can use under sill trim. Outward kick along the bottom.