Use tin snips to cut the gutter apron flashing roll in two 3 in.
Install gutter behind drip edge.
If there s a drip edge installed where the fascia meets your shingles and the gutter is hung below the drip edge get some roll flashing and tuck it up under the drip edge and over the top of the gutter.
The gutter is installed right under the drip edge which is tilted purposely.
Tools supplies tin sn.
Then the gutter guy will come in and finish up.
So the rainwater flows into the gutter and out of it through downspouts attached along the wall and away from the house.
The other element is if the gutter is not installed behind the drip edge it creates an air gap between the top of the gutter and the bottom of the drip edge which allows a place for the water to go.
This is important to protect damage to your fascia soffits rafters.
Does the gutter go under over or behind a drip edge.
Installing drip edge on your roof.
Posted by everything gutter on sep 15 2015 in downspouts gutter cleaning gutter guards gutter repair gutter sagging ice dams leaky joints leaky seams new gutters seamless gutters seamless rain gutters comments off on does the gutter go under over or behind a drip edge.
However the drip edge is typically part of a roofing job.
If it doesn t pull the drip edge out slightly from under the shingles.
Do i have to fix it.
Peter you are correct that roofers won t install gutters.
Being a manufacturer of roof edgings and an installer of gutters i know first hand it s not always possible to get the gutter behind the drip.
Home centers sell rolls of 6 in.
What you want is to get the roofers to install the drip edge leaving room for the gutters.
With without rain gutters.
Make sure the outer edge extends over the gutter.
How to install a drip edge slip the wide flat flange of the material all the way under the first course of roof shingles as illustrated.