Retrofit Kickout Gutter

Slide the kick out diverter up the roof plane until the starter trough stops at the shingle starter strip.

Retrofit kickout gutter. Originally posted by mr latone the way the siding lock falls in the op s picture makes for a very easy kick out that would be almost invisible. The kickout is installed above the rain gutter and or drip edge flashing where the roof meets a vertical wall. A kickout flashing is a pice of metal that is used where a lower roof line terminates against a vertical wall. Product overview protect your home from moisture with amerimax s kick out diverter.

It kicks out rain water and diverts it away from the lower wall. The diverter must be flat on the roof and flush to the sidewall. The 2009 irc includes the following section. Installed where a wall meets your roof it will help to divert the water from the roof into your gutter and not down your wall.

At the end of the vertical sidewall the step flashing shall be turned out in a manner that directs water away from the wall and onto the roof and or gutter. Foundation bolting house bolting or earthquake retrofit has been compared to a seat belt for your house the up and down and side to side motion of an earthquake can shake an unbolted house off its foundation during the 1994 northridge earthquake thousands of unbolted homes were damaged or destroyed. A kickout diverter is not only best practice when flashing the eave edge to a wall it s code. The minute or two it takes to create this detail has a pretty big return on investment.

Place the seamless one piece non corrosive kick out diverter as the first piece of step flashing. Constructed with heavy duty galvanized steel with a white finish it is an essential part of protecting your home against water damage. The simplest solution is a kickout diverter flashing which serves as the bottom piece of metal step flashing. Why should a stucco guy or even a sider have to retrofit a roofers.

More often it seems the drip edge aligns to the middle. Proper way to do kickout flashing where gutter meets side wall. But it s often left out. This specialty flashing kicks out rain water and diverts it away from the lower wall.

The solution is kickout flashing which replaces the bottommost piece of step flashing and directs water away from the wall and into the gutter. Some contractors make their own kickout flashing from a standard piece of step flashing by cutting the roof leg in half then sliding the upper half over the lower half. The kickout flashing is installed above the rain gutter and or drip edge flashing where the roof meets a vertical wall.