Metal Roofing Ridge Cap Installation

Three tab shingles are easy to cut into strips to create a ridge cap but now roofers and homeowners largely prefer laminated shingles.

Metal roofing ridge cap installation.

We use a z trim and make sure to have tape seal underneath the z trim and between the ridge cap and the top of the z. Our host david mackey discusses techniques used in installing ridge cap using the sl 16 standing seam roofing system from american building components. How to install ridge cap foam closures on a metal roof for a non vented ridge cap. The installation of the ridge cap is the same as the hip cap.

Locate the butyl tape so that the ridge fasteners will penetrate at the center of the butyl tape once the ridge cap is in place. Begin metal roof ridge cap installation by drawing lines the closure material goes on before the actual ridge cap. If the ridge is only 15 20 long repeat step 1 at the opposite end of the ridge. Make a mark at the cap s lower edges both sides at one end of the ridge.

This can be both along the ridge of the roof as well as the covering for a hip and the ridge of dormers. You use your ridge cap to mark the ribs so that you know where to place the z trims. The process to install ridge cap shingles has changed because roofing market trends have favored a new type of shingle. Center a piece of ridge cap on the building peak.

See the illustration below. Rob davidson vice president of residential sales for iko canada explains why. Apply butyl tape sealant at to the inside of the chalk line on both sides of the ridge cap. You cut z trims for the top of your panels.

The ridge cap is used to seal the upper point at which two slopes meet. When i started with iko over 20 years ago three tab.