Rubber Roof Meets Brick

When the roof of an addition garage porch or patio meets a brick wall the intersection creates a number of concerns.

Rubber roof meets brick.

These kinds of houses often have a roof that butts against a wall. Newer vent flashings are a concern of mine. Look for cracked rubber around the plumbing pipe. The rubber can fail in as little as 10 to 15 years.

The roof framing itself in this situation is much like any other traditional. It comes in 10 foot lengths or for step flashing 6 inch lengths. To install the roof wall flashing above the builder bent the top edge of the flashing into a 90 degree lip about 2 cm in width. Many of these incorporate a rubber seal with an aluminum flashing.

That lip is then set into a reglet or groove in this case cut into the mortar joint of the brick wall above. It is commonly used in two story and side split houses. Metal roof flashing can be use to seal gaps between roof walls. Flashing detail where roof meets upper wall scott wilson posted in general questions on march 8 2019 09 53pm i have seen several images from siding manufacturers showing their siding installed so that the bottom edge is tight against the top of an adjoining roof pic 1.

Metal roof flashing is a galvanized sheet metal that is bent at a 90 degree angle about 8 to 12 inches on each side of the angle.