Hip Return Flashing – Need suggestion
brianslink
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I am getting ready to hire a mason to rock the exterior walls of the house. I have 4 hip returns all done like the one in the picture. I can see that if the mason lays his rock against the wall that there will be water penetrating and rotting the wood in this are. I can’t find anyone locally who has an answer for how to flash this properly where no water can penetrate. Does anyone have an answer to how to do this correctly?
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I think you should ask whoever designed that crazy roof.
what kind of flashing is in the picture ?
is it mill finish aluminum or zinc coat copper, or galvanized steel ?
the flashing already installed is going to be the base flashing
the mason will have to install some cement brick ( or stone ) behind that flashing, and then install a thru - flash
from the wall out to the face of the stone and over the base flashing.... this will become the counter flashing
i like copper for both
definitely not aluminum.... and i don't like galv. steel either
if you were doing a hard-fired brick veneer, you could simply counter flash.. but with stone veneer you should always thru-flash
Have not been here in a long long time. How many files may be attached to a single post?
How tall is the post?
What's vertical in that picture? Is the housewrap installed with the printing horizontal, or at an angle?
Remove the installed step flashings. Install new step flashings fabricated from copper that extend back to and under the house wrap. Make sure the bottom flashing has a kick out. Temporarily install a pressure treated 2x4 with the wide face verticle to the wall parrallel to and slightly above the return roof with a plumb cut at the return roof edge. After the stone is set, remove the 2x4 and move it down slightly so there's enough of a gap to install flashing between the stone and the 2x4. Flash over the 2x4 with copper. By doing this, there is access to the flashing for future re-roofing.