Anyone have a pic or drawing of an outside corner detail for a hip roof drip edge? Thanks.
be dead on or that quarter inch is going to haunt you
Edited 8/31/2004 4:47 pm ET by rez
Anyone have a pic or drawing of an outside corner detail for a hip roof drip edge? Thanks.
be dead on or that quarter inch is going to haunt you
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Don't have a pic, but I cut thru the horizontal plane and fold the verticle around the corner. A more fiddly method is to use two pieces and cut off all but an inch or so of the verticle flange. Fold that at 90d and slip it behind the verticle flange on the piece on the other plane.
Think "crown molding".
Seriously. Although I do it with snips, the resulting angles are similar to cutting crown molding. But it's also sorta coped as well cuz I run one long to fold "behind" the other one.
There. That oughta clear things up, eh?
I guess that's why you asked for a picture, huh?
Thanks guys, had a crapper of a time today.
Began when I started accusing myself for seemingly always taking something that should be simple and making it hard. Next thing ya know a 3 hour job takes all day.
Trying to finish something taking way too long then run into the drip edge scenario knowing there should be a simple way to make sweet tight fit without getting all involved in it. But didn't have the ready working knowledge.
Then I had a flesh attack and got mad. Can't believe I let that happen. Next thing ya know nothing is going right. A simple task becomes botched.
Bloomin' cursed out loud. More than once. Felt so good I kept doing it. Roar!
Then little stuff started freakin' out like the end of a clamp flying loose. I mean when does that happen?
Still had enough sense left to shut it down and leave before I ended up falling off a ladder or something. I quit even tho' the sun was still shining.
I hate when that happens.
be dead on or that quarter inch is going to haunt you
Man that makes me feel better. You just described my day....
Got a bunch of red squirrels up in the soffit of the porch roof, they started chewing their way in last week and by now the whole family with aunts uncles cousins and nephews are well installed up the lower roof of my gambrel, tunnels in the fibreglass and chewing on the RaftRvents....
So, I like squirrels but not that much. Can't wait for 'em to start eating through the wiring and causing real damage....
Start about 2pm, figuring to just slap a 1x3 over the chewed areas on the soffit at the fascia and nail 'er down tight to block up the holes after pepper-spraying inside to chase 'em out. I'll fix it nice next year when I re-do the roof.
Hunh! First thing I do is get a whiff of pepper spray myself--not a big one, but this stuff is intended to chase off a 500lb. bear, so it's pretty strong. Oww! (For my next trick, I taser myself, LOL...). Then the 1x3 won't squeeze down to close the holes; those danged squirrels have eaten too much meat out of the fascia and soffit...so I get out the cat's paw and start yanking soffit panels (these are wood, with screened inserts). So, I get a piece of crud in my eye...and make the mistake of rubbing it with a hand that still has some pepper spray on it.
Half an hour later, when I can see again and have stopped cursing, I get the rest of the soffits yanked off and look things over. No doubt about it, I've gotta make new soffit. And...the fascia doesn't look too good, either. So that's on the list. And there's a bit of rot in a couple of rafter tails, so add that.... Jeeze, this is starting to look like a regular job....
After a fast (1½ hours) trip to the yard for materials, I bang off the fascia, and natch the drip edges come with it. I get the new fascia up without too much problem, but those damned drip edges wouldn't go back in but I had to climb up on the roof and kneel head down at the edge 25' up leaning over to peel back the first row of shingles while those damned squirrels sat in every tree around the house laughing and screaming at me. Got so mad I started trying to shoot 'em with the nail gun. So now I gotta go drag the grass with a magnet to pick up spent ammo....
About two hours past supper time I had the first two rows of new soffit 1x4 on and the strip vents, and by now my arms are falling off having been over my head for something like the last 4 hours continuously and I am sick and tired of fighting solo with 10' long warped 1x t&g that won't go in the slot and toss the tool belt and everything down on the deck and head for the kitchen cursing and figuring wtf those squirrels ain't going past that pepper spray to get back in the roof anyway so I'll close it up tomorrow...when I hear them scampering around in the lower roof over the dining room.
If I didn't have a dog at risk, I'd load the soffit up with Warfarin and call it done, but....
Anyway, for your drip edge, cut the horizontal flange and bend the vertical around the corner, nipping the lower edge to let it bend. Stick a dab of matching caulk in the nip and you're done.
But watch out for them squirrels....
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
Did you see the movie Patch Adams? Patch is "rooming" with a guy at a mental institution who is terrified of imaginary (at least to Patch) squirrels. They can be a pain (the real ones that is). Friend of mine had squirrels eating right through the cap shingles on her house to get into the attic. I think she tried pouring hot pepper juice on trhe shingles--don't know how well it worked. I heard my step daughter yelling one morning and ran into her room--a squirrel was spread eagled like a cat on her window screen! Wife isn't too keen on guns or I would have put a .22 slug between its eyes ('course, would have ruined the screen--well just a small hole).
Nope, didn't see the movie, but I can tell you if I'd had a 12-ga. instead of my finish nailer up on that roof today, I'd 'a been yellin, "Eat Bismuth, you dirty Tree-Rat...."
(Somehow, just doens't have the same ring as 'Eat Lead....' Ah, well....)Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
Was it a paslode impulse?
Always wondered if they would nail a squirril?
be dead on or that quarter inch is going to haunt you
Nope, Porter Cable standard pneumatic. Managed to take quite a few leaves off the branches between me and the critter I was aiming at, but if I actually hit one, it didn't seem to bother him.
Now, if I'd a used my old Senco III, I probably woulda knocked the whole friggin tree down....Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
Eat Bismuth
Hey, treerats is rodents--you should be able to use the regular lead shot on 'em instead of the expensive waterfowl loads . . .
Not to turn this into a mole eradication thread or anything . . . <g>Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
I don't even know if they still sell ordinary lead shot loads up here anymore. Anyway, the only guns in the house fire either caps, soft plastic bullets, or suction-cup darts--lucky for those squirrels....
Maybe I could hook 'em with a bass plug? Nah.... (Hey Bubba! I caught me another pine tree! C'mon and help me reel her in! Start up dat winch...and don' fergit to lock the brakes on the truck this time!)
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?