How To Install Metal Roofing Ridge Cap

Then we can cut that off and install it.

How to install metal roofing ridge cap.

You cut z trims for the top of your panels. Please try again later. Foundational aspects of ridge cap installation are covered in this how to install ridge cap video. Before i do that we need to apply tape seal along the top of the z trim.

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. To make sure you put it in the right place you need to make reference lines. Now that we ve finished preparing the eave end and the ridge cap ends of the hip cap we can install it on top of the z bar using pop rivets. You use your ridge cap to mark the ribs so that you know where to place the z trims.

Locate the butyl tape so that the ridge fasteners will penetrate at the center of the butyl tape once the ridge cap is. I m marking here along this ridge and along this ridge. Metal roofing ridge cap installation steps center a piece of ridge cap on the building peak. For a longer ridge move along the.

Make a mark at the cap s lower edges both sides at one end of the. 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. Installing the hip cap.