Proper Gutter Installation Drip Edge

How to install a drip edge.

Proper gutter installation drip edge.

If you are installing a roof system drip edges and gutter aprons play the main role. For proper water drainage the drip edge on the rakes should always overlap the drip edge on the eaves. A drip edge is designed to take advantage of those forces and along with gravity direct water into the gutter. A drip edge has to be resistant to possible erosion and should be 36 gauge or larger.

How to install gutters in 8 steps 1. If it doesn t pull the drip edge out slightly from under the shingles. Determine what works best for your house before ordering gutters and attachments. A drip edge or a gutter apron keeps your roof secure by filtering out all the water from the attic into the gutter.

Direct water away from fascia. Due to cohesion surface tension and other forces water droplets tend to stick to one another and to the surfaces they are on albeit slightly. It should never be installed outside the gutter i e against the fascia board. A furring edge is a strip of one by two wood you install on the vertical surface of the house just beneath the roof s edge.

Mark the highest point of the gutter run on the fascia 1 inches below the metal drip edge flashing on the extra wide fascia shown here the gutter is lower down. If not installed properly this will impact the effectiveness of your whole gutter systems. When you install the drip edge over this strip it keeps the lower flange further from the home s siding which helps to keep water further from the home. Iko 2019 in the sketch above the furring strip is shown in blue.

Drip edges have two key purposes. This works out. Snap layout lines photo by mary beth montgomery. We can also relate it to gutter systems.

Make sure the outer edge extends over the gutter. The whole purpose is to direct the water into the gutters. Slip the wide flat flange of the material all the way under the first course of roof shingles as illustrated.