Put Aluminum Flashing Over Existing Garage Door

The carpenter used no pan flashing.

Put aluminum flashing over existing garage door.

Pan flashing for exterior doors windows rot below a sliding glass door. The weather resistive barrier wrb material should be installed over the top of the door head flashing material. A self adhered head flashing strip should be installed across the top of the doorway and over the drip cap vertical leg. Adding aluminum capping around your garage door will make this one less area of exterior home maintenance you ll need to worry about.

What is aluminum capping. This allows you to bend the center part of the flashing over the sides of the door to cover the. Capping is the process of applying cut and formed aluminum sheeting over exterior wood trim. Below our next photo shows the extensive rot that ensued.

To install the flashing cut pieces of building paper and self adhesive flashing to fit and install them in the correct order bottom sides top around the opening. This aluminum sill for a sliding glass door was installed over the plywood subfloor of the author s new york offices in the 1970 s. This helps ensure water has no chance to seep behind and damage the sheathing.