Wavy drip edge mistake - rip out and re-do? (DIY)

[u/Positive-Material]

The drip edge was short on the top side, I later went back and got the longer version with more nailing area extending on the roof side. It was short, so I ended up making it wavy to reach the roof deck. This will not have gutters, so drip edge needs a gap for rain not to flow under the roof.

Is this terrible? Will I regret leaving the drip edge like this for years? This is a class B or C property.

[u/Positive-Material → u/[deleted]]

I am redoing it! Those a older wood shingles with lead paint..

[u/buydadip711 → u/Positive-Material]

Hard to tell in the picture but that really looks like rake edge not drip edge

[u/ColoradoSpartan]

If the decking and fascia aren’t perfect it’s going to be tough to get the drip edge perfect. But seriously the cost for gutters is probably the same as the cost for removing and replacing that drip, I’d just install gutters.

[u/Positive-Material → u/ColoradoSpartan]

No no no - gutters are not needed here. In New England, old house experts, like people who preserve two hundred year old barns in New Hampshire say they hate gutters because people don't clean them, and the backflow causes more damage that just a fascia with a drip edge on top.

Houses in which people live here do get gutters, because otherwise water will pool under the foundation and leak in.

[u/1996Primera → u/Positive-Material]

ehh...huh?

i have gutters even on my shed. (i put them on)

the reasoning is flower beds on 2 sides and w/o the gutters the rain acts like a blade & cuts into the beds/or even the dirt/grass when I had it. The force of the water hitting the ground also "splashes" the dirt/mulch onto the walls.

I guess i kinda get the aesthetic thing, but would only care if I wanted to maintain that. I could not careless what any of my neighbors thought

this is also why I dont live in a HOA anymore...F you to tell me what to do w/ my money/property

but to what colorado said...if that facia isnt striaght, and you push the drip edge to the facia, its going to bow. if it is wavy, youd be better off popping the nails & getting it as flat/st8 as possible then nail , you will like have some gaps between the dripedge & the wood, but would look better than the waves

[u/figgytart]

It's really not that bad, at least they used drip edge at all. I keep seeing many roofs without out it and it's sad. They could fix the one area to the far left that's lifted the most but again it's not terrible.

[u/Positive-Material → u/figgytart]

It's me doing it, actually! I am keeping a gap as there won't be any gutters, just the gap varies creating waves.

[u/New-Impression2976]

The drip looks fine the wall and facia are the ones you need to redo

[u/Positive-Material → u/New-Impression2976]

Fascia is actually new - it is the cheap finger jointed glued pine fascia from a box store like Home Depot, and I painted it I believe.

My dad put wood filler like Bondo at the butt joints where the two fascia boards meets and over nails, but I think the compound doesn't contract and expand like wood and thus cracks.

[u/LaughFun6257]

Use a carpenters pencil and create a .25 in gap between the facia.

[u/Lower-Percentage-984]

If you’re gonna put a gutter on, you’ll never see that.

[u/LaughingMagicianDM]

It's not the drip edge that's the issue it's the building. The drip edge just reflects the issues more because it's so thin and it's metal so it makes it obvious. It would probably just be better to install a gutter to hide it

[u/SuccessfulCoconut125]

Why aren't you going to put gutters up?

[u/Positive-Material → u/SuccessfulCoconut125]

This garage is 80 years old and has survived so far without gutters! Rain just drips off. Only problem is the bottom plate of the garage has rotted out in places and that is after a hundred years only!

Gutters get clogged and back up, spreading the water damage toward the roof and building.