Put Aluminum Flashing Over Existing Garage Door

What is aluminum capping.

Put aluminum flashing over existing garage door.

Cut half inch notches into the z flashing on both ends where the flashing bends using the tin snips. Adding aluminum capping around your garage door will make this one less area of exterior home maintenance you ll need to worry about. Aluminum capping is also referred to as aluminum cladding and aluminum wrapping. This helps ensure water has no chance to seep behind and damage the sheathing.

This allows you to bend the center part of the flashing over the sides of the door to cover the. Capping is the process of applying cut and formed aluminum sheeting over exterior wood trim. The carpenter used no pan flashing. The head flashing strip should extend a 6 inch minimum over the top of the side jamb flashing material.

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. The weather resistive barrier wrb material should be installed over the top of the door head flashing material. Below our next photo shows the extensive rot that ensued.