How To Extend Rake Roof

Learn how to overlap gable trim on a metal roof.

How to extend rake roof. Water will run down the shingle edge and even run underneath it. The roof leg should extend a minimum of 2 back onto the roof sheathing. Your gutter should extend beyond your roof shingles not align with it. Then we are going to redo the edge of the roofing.

Start with the rafter tails the main component of any eaves detail is the rafter tail the part of the rafter that extends beyond the exterior wall. Step by step gable and rake trim installation instructions that specifically cover how to overlapping gable. Omitting the spacing between the fascia and the drip edge is a common mistake that contractors often make. We want to extend to provide some protection from rain of the end walls.

The roof rake plates are installed in different widths depending on the surface being covered. This video will. Rake plates of one by 2 inches often cover the exposed top edge of the liner when there is also a ledge at the end of the gable. It is not uncommon for them to place the drip edge right against the fascia.

Use larger rake plates such as 1 by 4 inches and 1 by 6 inches when there is an infinity ledge at the end of the gable. Position the rafter extensions against the existing. While the vertical leg should be placed 1 4 1 2 away from the fascia. I recently built a small outbuilding with a 6 in 12 pitch roof that offers a perfect example for showing the process i use to build eaves and rakes.

On some roofs they detail the gable.