Looking for details on installing new 4×5 wood gutters on a 1×8 fascia w/ a 1 3/4 bed mldg and 1 1/2″ fascia showing below the bed mldg. I put the gutter and mldg on vertically mounted 3/8″x1″ shims for weep space. I still don’t like it.
My problem or concern is that the gutter/mldg/fascia assembly brings the gutter right up to the roof sheathing (9/12 pitch) and ice/water back up is my concern. The drip edge falls inside the gutter. My roofer starts day after tomorrow.
My ideas are: Drip edge can go tight to the gutter or could leave space between. Could set the drip edge to the wood with a bead of adhesive (thought I’ve already oiled the gutters)
Any comments or ideas?
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Mark, if you live in a snowy area (fill out yer profile!) than you need to keep the gutter out of the line of sliding snow. Otherwise keeping it high is ok.
You did fine with the 3/8 spacer blocks. We often omit the bedmold, or use a small scotia instead when the fascia is small.
Did you build in any slope?
Thanks Mike,I live near Boston and it hasn't stopped snowing for weeks it seems.
The gutters are over the plane of the roof so they will take a beating.
I ended up just pulling the drip edge hard up against the wood gutter and left it at that.
I'm not completely happy about it but I'm not sure what else to do.
I almost layed a 10" strip of rubber membrane on the roof sheathing and had it lay into the gutter. Then I'd fasten a termination bar over the rubber to the gutter, bond the ice and water shield to the rubber and up the sheathing, then put the drip edge on. This would prevent water backing up behind the fascia ...from over the gutter but I think the t bar will rot the gutter over time. It just seems too experimental. I'm thinking ventilation and weep space is what will save me.The roofer has covered 30 of my 120 lf of gutter. I still have a chance to do something with the rest. If you have any ideas I'd really appreciate them.
Mark, your term bar solution doesn't sound bad at all. I don't know about your rubber/ice + water detail, though. Supposedly the two aren't compatible. Depending on the design, I usually run ice and water out over the fascia, then cover it with the drip edge, then lap the tarpaper over the drip edge. You could think of the shingles, tar paper and drip edge doing all the work 99% of the time, and the ice and water is extra protection against ice dams.
BTW, I retrofitted a house, the way I just described, this fall and man are they glad I did! Worst ice dams anyone's seen in a long time. Huge icicles all over the place. The "bitch" is doing its job!
Mike