How To Transition Rubber Roof To Ashphalt

Cut away the asphalt just wide enough to remove the asphalt.

How to transition rubber roof to ashphalt.

The edpm degrades when in contact with asphalt when i enquired about this here a few years ago it was explained to me that the asphalt being referred to is fresh roofing cement and similar products maybe even some of the ice water shield stuff the asphalt in the shingles is not a problem rich beckmananother day another tool. At the roof transition shown in photo roofers had installed peel and stick over the epdm lap. A square equals 100 square feet. We re going to do a pitch transition or change.

You ll have a steeper part of your roof turning into a lower slope so there s a steeper pitch up top and a lower pitch on the bottom. Hold the end of a chalk line at one of the outermost top corners of the carport roof frame. The starter strip and first row of shingles must be applied 25 cm from the bottom of the slope roof or main roof above the slope transition. For more information please visit http.

We need to do something where that change happens so the panels can go down and water can come off hit the lower slope and come off the roof. They had the right idea but the peel and stick they used was rubberized asphalt which reacts with epdm. String the line along the top of the frame until it meets the shingle roof. They also didn t overlap the two membranes enough so it wouldn t have been long before a significant leak developed along the entire length of.

Although rubber roofing is more expensive its lifespan is double that of asphalt roofing so over the long term it will actually cost less. Cut strips of comparible rubber wide enough and long enough to overlap your cut away asphalt by 3 5 on each side. Carlisle firestone or gaf all have similer type seam tapes. Roofing materials are usually measured in squares.

Mark this point of the. The average cost for rubber roofing is 300 400 per square. Find out how to join an epdm rubber membrane to an existing roofing material such as felt using a termination bar. Clean both surfaces with a rubber membrane cleaner.