Brick Flashing Work

I re-flashed this brick wall a while back.

On the initial phone call to the office, the lady said she had "just a little small leak" over the front porch.

Turned out the rocket scientists that did the original flashing work left like a 6 inch piece of flashing out completely just underneath that gutter elbow from the upper roof. :woohoo:

And you know it had to be OSB decking. I started tearing off the shingles near even with the bottom of the valley above and when i got to that elbow where the flashing was MIA that's where the rot started.

The rot did not stop until near the bottom so all the decking from the bottom up passed the gutter elbow had to come out and be replaced.

They also had just 4x4 hemmed wall flashing installed with no cut made in the brick ( no counter flashing ) and just caulked at the top with sillycone.

Hemmed and caulked is fine enough. I see them all around here and we get hurricane/tropical storms 2-3 times a year. No sign of leaks.

Darryl, I did some work down in the Homestead Florida area back in late 1992 and early 1993 in behind Hurricane Andrew. At the time I had just 7 or 8 years experience.

That was my introduction to government authority on roofing. Having to do the dry in with 44 lb. felt ( it had to have that yellow line to pass inspection), use round flat metal felt caps with a nail driven into them, the 8 inch tar strip you mention at valleys, walls, bottoms and rakes, drip edge nailed 4 inches or less apart and 6 nailing shingles ( I had no air equipment at the time ).

Add all that to almost no one speaking English around there, a Cuban guy getting shot and killed in my back yard and the motor in my truck blowing up just before we were ready to head back home and it turned out to be quite a nightmare!

My wife and I ended up taking an 18 hr. Greyhound Bus Ride out of that place!

And we are happy to report that we did not leave anything behind that we have to go back and get.

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Spudder, that's because your 'rules' of roofing are dictated by book learned HOA's instead of roofers. I'm sure the roofers they credit with that junk were laborers for a roofing at some point. They may even have put in 20 years as laborers since they couldn't advance to 'roofer'.

Willie, had that job been down here in the sunshine state you would have seen our famous trademark the wall would have had a coating of " Bull over the top of the step flashings lol Normally we install a "L" type flashing instead of a step we reserve them for shakes and other types not for shingle, however there are a few cities that will require step flashing, don forget we set or are supposed to set the shingle to metal termination is 8" of roofers mastic I find that hard to do using step flashing, then we cap off the wall flashing with a hemmed counter flashing that is recessed into the masonry and usually wedged in the masonry reglet with lead or other means. On new construction another method of flashing is used and makes it a reusable counter flashing.