Calling on roofing/construction people

[rclouse79]

It is time for me to once again tap into the true power of Rokslide; advice on non-hunting related topics. I am painting my house with a roller this summer break. The painting itself has not been bad, but all the prep work and fun little surprises have been character building. I ripped off some trim that clearly had water damage. I had to keep tearing off more siding and the gutter and cut out the plywood that was rotten. I assume this issue arose from the jack-wagons that redid our roof a handful of years back. If it had been like this since the house was built in 99 I image the damage would have been much worse. It looks like the flashing doesn’t go down far enough, but I am just guessing. I want to fix the issue after I put it back together so it doesn’t happen again. Thanks for any advice from the people who know how it should be done.

 

[weaver]

That is by far the most common area for roofers to cut corners and not flash it correctly. 90% of the time it’s leaking in that spot on houses we replace siding on.
The bottom piece of step flashing has to kick out to divert water to the outside of the siding.
Should be able to find a YouTube video on kickout flashing.

 

[Geewhiz]

That last piece of step flashing was cut and bent to wrap around an outside corner and for some reason the roofers installed it there. Like @weaver said, put your last piece of step flashing on with a kick out, similar in concept to this.