Roof Flashing

Feature: 36” Grace Ice & Water Shield roofing underlayment is applied to all valleys, eaves, and critical flashing areas.Fager Homes also applies Grace Ice & Water Shield to the 1^st row of shingles around the entire roof
Benefit: Grace Ice & Water Shield helps prevent leaks caused by wind driven rain and water back-up from ice dams in flashing areas, on roof edges, valleys, eaves, ridges and other critical areas. Grace Ice & Water Shield provides superior protection from ice dams and wind driven rain in severe climate areas such as Northeast Wisconsin. It’s rubberized asphalt seals around nails and provides a level of protection that traditional felt underlayments alone cannot provide.

Feature: Flashing applied to all critical roof areas.
Benefit: Prime spots for water seepage on roofs for exterior walls are where surfaces intersect. These include where dormer walls and the roof join, around skylights and chimneys, and in roof valleys. Also vulnerable are surfaces where water runoff can be heavy, such as roof valleys and eaves. Flashing provides the extra protection that these spots need.

Valley Flashing protects the valleys where two roof planes meet. This W-shaped channel is placed over the top of building felt before the roof’s finishing material is installed.

Step Flashing protects the joints between the roof and dormer walls and chimneys. It fits to each course of shingles and looks as if it is stepping up a wall or other surface. Though skylights sometimes have step flashing up the sides, they generally come with their own, integral flashing.

Vent Pipe Flashing fits over flues and pipes. It is cone-shaped with a flange at the base, which is worked into the shingles as the roofing is applied.

Drip Edges: are strips that run along the roof’s eaves and rakes to prevent water from seeping under the roofing. Two similar metal strips used for flashing walls are Z-flashing and drip caps. Z-flashing seals the horizontal seams between plywood or hardboard siding panels; drip caps are L- or Z-shaped flashing strips that seal frames above doors and windows.

Feature: 4” PVC convection airflow vent-stack for radon mitigation.