Soldering Roof Flashing

These irons need tanks and hoses but burn hotter under all kinds of conditions.

Soldering roof flashing.

The edge of the roof has thin metal flashing that helps water drip off the roof without damaging the home or causing a leak. Applied flux to joints and heated iron with gas blowlamp until able to melt solder. Open valleys have metal flashing to protect this critical area of the roof. While some skylight manufacturers include flashing in their products sometimes roofing professionals have to create it or purchase it separately.

Nice because they don 39 t make noise or fumes and you don 39 t need a hose and tank. They 39 re a must if you 39 re going to solder in colder and windier conditions. They have a half hour warm up time and don 39 t work well in cold and windy situations. Then applied iron to edges of joint and allowed solder to run onto lead.

Then reheated iron and smoothed over the rather blobby solder so that it ran into joint. Propane soldering torches with closed flames are used for safely soldering roof flashings and sheet metal. Soldering copper roof flashing. Chimney flashing is applied around the base of a chimney and behind the wrb in several different pieces of flashing.

Bought lead flashing and solder wire from wickes. Starting at the front of the chimney assuming the chimney is surrounded by roof continuous flashing roof to wall flashing along the front bottom edge with soldered corners on each side then step flashing up each side if asphalt shingles are being used then soldered. I m trying to join 26 gauge galvanized to 26 gauge galvanized with a 1 1 2 wide lap joint. Page 1 of 2 1 2 last.

The propane units use tanks that you can buy almost anywhere typically used for barbecues. Soldering copper roof flashing. Remember the heat is transmitted from the soldering iron tip to the seam through the puddle of molten solder bridging the joint so as in welding watch your puddle and work along continuously. Wash your joints if joints are not washed properly after soldering the flux remains active and will leave a green discoloration on the adjacent copper.

View profile view forum posts visit homepage diamond join date sep 2002 location salinas ca. 07 18 2007 04 25 am 1. Can i use epoxy to join the two pieces instead of solder. Will the epoxy be as strong as solder.

Results 1 to 20 of 28 thread. Chimney was leaking fixed with 26 gauge galvanized. It is for roof flashing. They 39 re ideal when soldering inside the shop or during warm summer conditions nbsp nbsp propane and acetylene nbsp soldering irons.

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