I’m looking for tips on flashing vinyl windows for vertical steel siding.
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what brand and style siding?
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and are these replacement vinyls or with installation flanges?
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I installed J channel on the bottom and sides of my windows, with the side pieces stopping even with the top of the window, and running long past the piece of J on the bottom.
Standard z bar on top of the window, overlapping the J on the sides.
The bottom corners can be troublesome if you don't have a good WRB, under the steel.
Edit... I didn't put the window wrap on, until after the bottom J channel was on, so the widow wrap lapped over the bottom J channel.
A medium to large guy named Alan, not an ambiguous female....
NOT that there is anything wrong with that.
Edited 8/7/2007 5:48 pm by bigal4102
Wouldn't you have been better to put the wrap on before all the J flashing except the head flashing?
Yes he would have been.Looks like this is another one of those great threads where the OP forgets to participate...;)
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On the head flashing... These windows, weathershield Aluminum clad casements, had a built in drip cap, that was sealed under the wrap, then I added a piece of Z in the desired trim color to match the J around the windows.I should take pictures, I am awful at trying to explain this stuff.A medium to large guy named Alan, not an ambiguous female....
NOT that there is anything wrong with that.
I was thinking it was at the bottom flange that you were taping with lap wrong way. Sorry.
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I fear I did not explain that well.I have steel wainscoating that stops at the bottom of the windows. The Z-bar that capped the wainscoat was installed tight to the sides of the windows at the bottom, then a piece of J directly under the window, then the side peices of wrap lap down over the Z ,and J. There is no wrap on the bottom flange of the window, and no caulk under the flange. I am an amatuer for sure, but after much study here , I was trying my best to think like a raindrop.The op does seem to have vanished.A medium to large guy named Alan, not an ambiguous female....
NOT that there is anything wrong with that.
No need for pics. I understand now. No water into your house = happiness.