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SOAKERS & STEP FLASHING

Your ALT-Text here Soakers and step flashings are used to weather a raking abutment where the roof is covered with slates or plain tiles. While Code 3 is suitable for soakers, Code 4 is the minimum thickness to use for all flashings.

Soakers weather between the wall and the roof covering. Soaker lengths vary with the types of slates or tiles used. Diagram 5.

 

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Minimum upstand is 75mm and flashing should not exceed 1.5m in length and an allowance must be made when measuring for over-lapping not less than 100mm as shown in Diagram7.

Point all flashings with Lead Sheet Sealent. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STEP AND COVER FLASHINGS

 

Your ALT-Text here This flashing in minimum Code 4 lead sheet is prepared and fixed as described and shown for step flashings over soakers but with an additional allowance of 150mm to cover over the tiles. This will make an overall girth of not less than 300mm. Diagram 8. In all cases the free edges of the flashings should be clipped to suit the exposure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SINGLE STEP ABUTMENT FLASHINGS  

 

Your ALT-Text here Single Step flashings are particularly suitable for weathering the abutments to stone walls but they are also used on brick abutments in exposed positions. In these situations the vulnerable point on a step flashing (where the raking cut meets the turn-in) is over-come by lapping the steps 50mm. Diagram 9a. Note that the upstands of the cover flashings are not wedged into the wall but are retained by turning the top edge of the lead over the tile. Diagram 9b. For pitches over 30° extra fixings will be required in the top of each piece as shown in diagram 9a.

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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