Roof Shingles Dont Extend Over Into Gutter

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Roof shingles dont extend over into gutter.

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. Too little overhang and the water can leak through into fascia boards. Most shingle manufacturers recommend a 1 4 to 3 8 inch overhang over your eave which is where your roof ends by your gutter.

Shingles extend too far. It s the low side of the gutter and also same place where another 8 length gutter drops into it too. Home centers sell a gutter apron in 10 ft. What you need to do is to extend those roof shingles into the gutter.

I ve cleaned the gutters out 4 or 5 times since i bought the house a year ago. 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. And you re lifting up the edges of those shingles at the bottom of the roof edge. A gutter apron is a bent piece of flashing that tucks up under the shingles and over the gutter.

Now with the new roof on i have trouble getting my hand in the gutter. Too much and the shingles can blow off. It s a fine balance but one that professional roofers know all about. Shingle overhang often has to be addressed.

In some markets you ll see roofers drop shingles down 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. I didn t have this problem before. And you re going to slip underneath some flashing.

If water is dripping behind your gutter it s probably because it was installed without any flashing over the back of the gutter. 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. The contractor said the old shingles extended too far over the edge so now they must really hang too far over.