How To Divert Rain On A Metal Roof

Next gran the gutter guard and place it between your roof and the gutter.

How to divert rain on a metal roof. Roof rain diverter installation steps sand underside of flashing with 80 grit sandpaper to help paint adhere. Place a piece of standard metal drip edge onto a table or between a pair of sawhorses. Cut flashing in half using aviation snips. Tilt the rain diverter in the direction you would like the water to flow by angling one side down slightly.

This is done to give the paint a better surface to adhere. Finish up by putting a dab of roofing cement on each nail head to seal out water and help hold the shingles down. Score the surface of the drip edge with 80 grit sandpaper. Lift the shingles up and tack the rain diverter down in several places using roofing nails.

First clean out your gutters of any rocks or leaves that may be inside of them. Spray paint bottom surface and up turned edge of flashing to match color of roof. Gutter guard is a mesh type of metal that is flexible and easy more. How to redirect rain off a roof.

However the roof extended five or six feet beyond the side of the house on three sides so the water was actually falling well away from the foundations onto fairly steeply sloped paths away from the house. Turn it upside down so the lip edge faces upwards. Lift the shingle tabs that are centered over the porch stoop by gently pushing the flat end of a pry bar under each tab. We actually had a house with a metal roof rafter tails and for the most part no gutters.

Use flat pry bar to loosen stuck roof. Since a metal roof doesn t have shingles to slip the diverter under you would have to slide it under the bottom end of the roofing which wouldn t be very pleasing to look at. Slide the diverter in.