My house, built in 1994, has a single storey part with a single-sloped pitched roof. The top of the roof meets the two-storey vertical wall of the main house. Where they meet, there is some lead flashing. One strip of flashing is peeling away from the wall at one end, where it meets the next strip of flashing (about six inches has peeled away). The flashing looks undamaged.. What is the best way of reattaching it?

thanks

John

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JohnD wrote:
My house, built in 1994, has a single storey part with a single-sloped
pitched roof. The top of the roof meets the two-storey vertical wall of
the main house. Where they meet, there is some lead flashing. One strip
of flashing is peeling away from the wall at one end, where it meets the
next strip of flashing (about six inches has peeled away). The flashing
looks undamaged. What is the best way of reattaching it?

It is normally chased into the wall by a depth of about 1" and made good
with mortar. If it looks like it has peeled off, it could be it has split
where it is chased into the wall.

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JohnD wrote:
My house, built in 1994, has a single storey part with a single-sloped
pitched roof. The top of the roof meets the two-storey vertical wall of
the main house. Where they meet, there is some lead flashing. One strip
of flashing is peeling away from the wall at one end, where it meets the
next strip of flashing (about six inches has peeled away). The flashing
looks undamaged. What is the best way of reattaching it?

It is normally chased into the wall by a depth of about 1" and made good
with mortar. If it looks like it has peeled off, it could be it has split
where it is chased into the wall.

Or you've been visited by a few members of the Caravan Utilising Nomadic
Travelling Society in the night, and they got scared off before they could
rip it all out?

JohnD wrote:
My house, built in 1994, has a single storey part with a
single-sloped pitched roof. The top of the roof meets the two-storey
vertical wall of the main house. Where they meet, there is some lead
flashing. One strip of flashing is peeling away from the wall at one
end, where it meets the next strip of flashing (about six inches has
peeled away). The flashing looks undamaged. What is the best way of
reattaching it?

Are you sure it's lead and not bituminous flashband?
Lead doesn't normally peel away by itself, although if it wasn't wedged in
properly before pointing, this could cause it to slip out of the joint.
You'll need to wedge it in before re-pointing it, use some rolled up lead
strips and tap them tight with a bolster chisel

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"Dave Plowman (News)" writes:
In article ,
JohnD wrote:
My house, built in 1994, has a single storey part with a single-sloped
pitched roof. The top of the roof meets the two-storey vertical wall of
the main house. Where they meet, there is some lead flashing. One strip
of flashing is peeling away from the wall at one end, where it meets the
next strip of flashing (about six inches has peeled away). The flashing
looks undamaged. What is the best way of reattaching it?

It is normally chased into the wall by a depth of about 1" and made good
with mortar. If it looks like it has peeled off, it could be it has split
where it is chased into the wall.

Never seen that, but the mortar does eventually fail due to the lead
expanding and contracting in the sun, allowing the lead to pull out.

Report back exactly what the failure is, to get more help with fixing it.

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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
It is normally chased into the wall by a depth of about 1" and made
good with mortar. If it looks like it has peeled off, it could be it
has split where it is chased into the wall.

Never seen that, but the mortar does eventually fail due to the lead
expanding and contracting in the sun, allowing the lead to pull out.

Well yes - but then that would be likely obvious to the OP?

Report back exactly what the failure is, to get more help with fixing it.

It may not even be lead, but that self adhesive flashing with a metal
layer.

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JohnD wrote:
My house, built in 1994, has a single storey part with a single-sloped pitched roof.

The top of the roof meets the two-storey vertical wall of the main
house. Where they meet, there is som

e lead flashing. One strip of flashing is peeling away from the wall at
one end, where it meets the next strip of flashing (about six inches has
peeled away). The flashing looks undamaged. What is the best way of
reattaching it?

thanks

John

Assuming it actually is lead:

As an aerial installer I used to see this every day. It's common,
especially on houses built between about 1975 and 2000. Sometimes it
falls out when you're looking at it, then you get the blame! I've
repaired a few of these. Rake out all the old mortar. Get hold of some
strips of lead about 2" wide and roll/fold/bash them to make fat 2"
'cigarettes' with a diameter rather more than then the mortar joint
width. Hammer them so they have a bit of a wedge shape. Put the flashing
back into position and use the lead wedges to hold it in. Drive them in
endwise between the lead flashing and the brick above. Mortar along the
joint between the wedges. Use a very firm mortar mix, so firm it's a bit
hard to push it into the joint. A piece of wood the thickness of the
joint's width will help.

Bill

Bill Wright wrote:

endwise

I meant sideways.

Bill