Put Aluminum Flashing Over Existing Garage Door

What is aluminum capping.

Put aluminum flashing over existing garage door.

The weather resistive barrier wrb material should be installed over the top of the door head flashing material. Pan flashing for exterior doors windows rot below a sliding glass door. Capping is the process of applying cut and formed aluminum sheeting over exterior wood trim. Cut half inch notches into the z flashing on both ends where the flashing bends using the tin snips.

This helps ensure water has no chance to seep behind and damage the sheathing. Below our next photo shows the extensive rot that ensued. Aluminum capping is also referred to as aluminum cladding and aluminum wrapping. Adding aluminum capping around your garage door will make this one less area of exterior home maintenance you ll need to worry about.

This allows you to bend the center part of the flashing over the sides of the door to cover the. 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.