Flashing at a Dead Spot

These guys made FOUR attempts to stop this leak at the dead spot but no one ever got to the root of the problem. The valley wasn't leaking, only the dead spot, yet they re-did the valley 3 times, siliconed the crap out of the dead spot and the wall and "boogered" it up pretty bad with roof cement. Now it has two layers of valley metal AND a layer of modified in the valley on a 12 yr. old house.

The brick masons extended the brick an inch beyond the wall of the house making it difficult to flash since metal won't bend around that and whoever did the flashing obviously didn't know what to do about it.

The home owner finally gave up on them, called me for a quote and accepted my price. I went over today, uninstalled all their mess, cut an inch off the bottom two bricks with a diamond masonry blade to make the edge of the brick even with the wall above, installed a large flashing pan and let it extend beyond the corner of the brick by a couple inches.

What is it that these people are thinking? Wasn't it painfully obvious where the water would go they way they had it? I had to deal with an ant infestation due to the moisture in the dead spot. Just kept the blower on the ants with 100 mph winds until they were all gone. :laugh:

tarstrip, it has an elbow on it that shoots the water out a bit farther from the dead spot than what it appears in the pic without it being attached when the pic was taken but yes sir you're still right.

I left the existing 4 x 4 hemmed wall flashing in place as you see it in pic 3 on the longer upper wall after I cut it. Then I put a large pan in the dead spot and another flashing piece over it and way up under the 4 x 4 wall flashing.

On the little lower wall where you see the weathered grey counter flashing I used step flashing. I use both types of flashing at various different times. It's not either/or for me as I'm experienced with both. I've never had a leak due to ice damming in my 30 years of roofing. Never worked above the Mason-Dixon line either though.

I sealed the top of the pan flashing where it meets the wall before I put the siding, trim board and downspout back on. I had the whole small brick wall step flashed, shingled and counter flashed before installing the pan. I bent the pan flashing around the corner on the outside of the counter flashing. ( in the pic it appears to just be on the inside ) Then I added a second piece of counter over the first one for cosmetic purposes ( the little one you see at the top ) but I sealed behind it vertically first. No water will get in there. Of course I went back at the end and sealed all the counter. I'm not sure if it would leak from an ice dam. Maybe not. I'm just glad I don't have to worry about them. :)

That's a nice place to have the downspout draining.

:)