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Drip Edge Curling

user-6876124 | Posted in General Questions on

Greetings!

Long time lurker. Part time carpenter when I’m not teaching at a local trade school.

My wife and I are building a house with a mono slope roof in mid coast Maine . We went with TJIs for rafters, 8 inches closed cell spray foam and capped with Zip sheathing, underpayment and owens Corning shingles. 

I trust our roofer (he’s done dozens of jobs for the crew I work with) and we have a real head scratcher on our hands. All of the drip edge is cupping off the roof at each of the seams (they are overlapped, not butted.) The roof was put on at the end of November but it wasn’t terrible cold that day. About 50 degrees. That makes me think that thermal expansion isn’t a crazy huge issue but I can’t think of any other reason for this to happen. The rest of the roof looks fine except for one spot where the shingles were a little tight. (Forgiveable and has been fixed.) 

My current thinking is that there is a much larger temperature swing on the eaves of the roof  (16” overhangs) and so it’s going though much larger heat swings. But that is a shot in the dark. 

Any other thoughts are greatly appreciated. The roofer really wants to make it right but without understanding the cause it’s hard to follow through on that.

Note: that one piece of shadow board that has a curve hasn’t always been that way. Cedar has been tough to come by lately and that piece was more crooked than a policitian.)

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  1. walta100 | | #1

    I don’t think you will understand until you take a joint apart but it sure looks like something is preventing the drip edge from sliding over the next drip edge so when it expands the way it can move is vertically.

    My guess us the drip edge ends are interwoven so they can’t slide past each other.

    Walta

    1. user-6876124 | | #2

      I am afraid you are correct

  2. gusfhb | | #3

    Isn't drip edge 10 foot length? hard to tell due to perspective of pic, but they sure look shorter than that, or wildly overlapped

  3. Expert Member
    Michael Maines | | #4

    Was the dripedge installed before the fascia or shadow board? That's a common approach for scheduling reasons but roofers often don't leave enough space and it forces the dripedge up.

    The only times I've had the inner edge of the dripedge buckle is when the dripedge wasn't straight. Otherwise it does look like a thermal expansion issue.

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