Hello,
I am in the middle of building a 10×12 shed that will have a “shed roof” with a 3-12 slope. This is a free standing building, so the ridge will be high on one side and slope down to the other side of the building. I’m planning on roofing the structure with composite shingles, yet I don’t know how to cap the ridge. Is there a special type of flashing or drip edge specifically for a design of this type? Can someone please offer their expertise and educate me? Thank you.
Mike
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My method is to use a 5" wide strip of metal with a hem on one side and kick (30 degree bend) on the other. Install your drip edge and shingle to where the nails are less than 5" from the edge of the drip edge. Nail down some two inch wide by 3-4" long strips of metal so the nails are less than five inches from the drip edge. Hook the hem of the metal over the protruding edge of the drip edge. Fold the small strips of metal back over the big piece and pop rivet them to the big piece.
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greencu invented the 961KB bmp.
be I can't believe he posted that. Roar!
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Ya, I realize the pic needed all the KBs it could get to relay an accurate detail.View Image
A person with no sense of humor about themselves is fullashid
Edited 7/1/2005 10:16 am ET by razzman
Yeah, I should have reduced it. I'd just gotten out of the emergency room after passing a kidney stone when I decided to divert my attention by doing that little drawing. By the time I got done drawing, I decided I needed to go lay down, so I just posted it. Sorry to all you dial up guys. W says we'll all get broadband soon.OOPS, I did it again.............................
Ouch, hope all is well.
Took me a longer than normal to open my previous post just now.
Maybe a simple copy and paste doesn't work on shrinking data.
greencu is so glad he invented painkillers
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Yeah, thanks. I'm fine today. Started hurting about 9:30 yesterday AM, in the ER by 10:30 and back at work by 1PM. I passed it before I got to the ER, I guess. Must have never hung up anywhere. They could tell I'd had one, but it was gone before they catscanned me. Never got to take any good pain pills.............
My uncle was on a morphine drip for 5 days before he passed a stone. I feel mighty lucky.
Everyone talks about how bad root canals are, too. When I had one of those, it wasn't much worse than a cleaning or whatever.
Hopefully, it'll just be a minor inconvenience if I get my head cut off (like JJ Buck).OOPS, I did it again.............................
Ooops, you lucky guy! What a way to get some time off.
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W lied. This is the sticks.
Glad you're feeling better. Buddy here averages 1 every couple of months. Calls it gravel. Apparently better than boulders. He's real careful about diet. Also mentioned this, and yours, is a bad climate.
Thanks Razz. Not that it was all that much of a drawing. LOLPAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Buy a gallon can of roof tar (elastic sealant or "muck"). Fold the top run of felt over the high edge buy an inch or so, staple smooth. Lay in the metal (you could use edge metal, be it "c" or "f" bend or brake your own) in a layer of the muck. By the way, if you can use a metal brake any way, it will also fold felt in nice crisp lines for you. When you shingle up to the high edge, set the upper edge of the two or three top courses in a thin spread of muck, overhanging the metal by at least an inch.