Fixing a small 10 x 10 building for a friend. Masonry walls. The gables are framed and on one side, sticks out about 1 to 1-1/2 inches from the block. I imagine the block work was out of square.
What is the best way to hide this? I have to bend a bunch of aluminum for the fascia and rakes anyway, so should I bend some then stuff it under the siding then into the wall?
Glenn
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Furr out the gable walls with 1x and shims to a plane that overhangs the masonry walls by a uniform amount. Nail the siding to the furring. The gable wall's drip plane will now be outside the lower wall, and all is good that way.
There are two ways to do the flashing. The easy way is to run a length of 5¾" x 1½" L flashing finished with a 45º down-angled 3/8" hem on the end of the short leg, and nail this over the furring before you begin to install the siding. The better way is to vary with width of the short leg as needed so that outer edge of the hem winds up a uniform distance beyond the masonry wall. Then you can install that directly on the gable wall sheathing before you start shimming out the furring.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not brought
low by this? For thine evil pales before that which
foolish men call Justice....
Pretty much what I was thinking. Don't see much hemming around here.Why a 45 and not a 90?Glenn
Kicks the drip-plane just that teensy bit extra out from the wall. Looks like you meant it, too. They'll think yer a genius.
And it'll look a lot nicer with the hem--more finished. I don't think I've ever seen a custom drip flashing here made without a hem. Raw cut edges out in the open like that? I don't think so, Gertrude.... ;o)
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
I agree. I like hemmed edges much better.