I am roofing a new house that has a number of dormers. I want to minimize the look of the flashing at the face of the dormer, where it projects from the roof. Someone described to me how I could flash it and then butter up the flashing with roofing tar, then install a final cut course of shingles over the flashing. Will this work, or am I inviting leaks and blown off shingles. The roof is a 14 pitch if that matters much.
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Do not go adding gobs of tar. It makes the real roofers leak detection that much harder and also eats away at some flashings.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
I have irriatable Vowel syndrome.
we use a painted coil stock break flashing
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That can work but not with the tar gobblets.
Run shingles until the top of one is nigh to th eface wall.
Then run a backup of bituthene or Vycor over the shingle and up onto the sheathing 8".
Now install the apron flashing. Then shingle over it.
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