Steel Roof Transition To New Pitch

Creating a pigs ear in sheet metal for a pitch transition using hand tongs and a pocket pan former.

Steel roof transition to new pitch.

See the illustration below. The other shows a view underneath the pitch transition strip flashing taken from the lower flatter pitch of roof. Although installing a metal roof can be a bit of work. After bottom roofing panels have been installed set one piece of transition flashing down where the top portion non hemmed of the transition flashing lies flat on the upper roof 3.

The roof plane goes from one pitch to a lower pitch. A roof pitch transition is a line in the roof plane that changes pitch. I m wondering if this transition flashing was installed correctly because it sits high above the ribs on the lower panels i was thinking it should more or less sit almost on top of the ribs. We see this quite frequently in log home roofs with porches for example.

Install bottom roofing panels first 2. One picture shows a view from above the pitch transition. Our 7 step guide of shingle to metal roof transition will cover everything you need to know about from the pros and cons of metal roofs to proper installation. However if you follow this guide properly we re sure you can do it too.

We re going to do a pitch transition or change. Pitch transitions are a common roof detail. We need to do something where that change happens so the panels can go down and water can come off hit the lower slope and come off the roof. Measure 1 1 2 from bottom edge of transition flashing.