Roof Shingles Dont Extend Over Into Gutter

In some markets you ll see roofers drop shingles down into the gutter.

Roof shingles dont extend over into gutter.

Is there a standard ex. Shingles extend too far. A gutter apron is a bent piece of flashing that tucks up under the shingles and over the gutter. What you need to do is to extend those roof shingles into the gutter.

Too often to compensate for lack of drip edge or flashing shingles are installed too far forward covering what is supposed to be the open trough of your new gutter. Simply put this is faulty installation where the shingles extend too far over the edge of the roof or are too close to the edge. The contractor said the old shingles extended too far over the edge so now they must really hang too far over. I didn t have this problem before.

It s a fine balance but one that professional roofers know all about. Home centers sell a gutter apron in 10 ft. Too much and the shingles can blow off. If water is dripping behind your gutter it s probably because it was installed without any flashing over the back of the gutter.

And you re going to slip underneath some flashing. My plan was to bend and rivet a little sheet of aluminum to make a splash guard on the outside of the gutter at that point and also a splash guard behind the drip edge and into the gutter laying against the fascia. Shingle overhang often has to be addressed. Now with the new roof on i have trouble getting my hand in the gutter.

And you re lifting up the edges of those shingles at the bottom of the roof edge. In many cases and particularly as home ages and settles the roof edge at the eave edge can wave in and out by more than this amount. So because there s not a magic potion that will do that the way to fix this is to get a flat bar and that s a very thin pry bar. It s the low side of the gutter and also same place where another 8 length gutter drops into it too.

I ve cleaned the gutters out 4 or 5 times since i bought the house a year ago. Longer overlaps of asphalt shingles past the drip edge will hang over into the gutter will send roof runoff off of the roof rather than into the gutter and will eventually crack break and look gross. If a drip edge has been installed some of this irregularity can be addressed by the rigidity in the metal.