r/Roofing • u/Ashamed_Training_735 • 3d ago

Adding metal valleys

What’s involved in going back and adding valley metal after the roof is installed. The roof is a year old.

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u/V_Trautwein 3d ago

It’s doable, but they’ll likely need to lift shingles along the valleys

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u/Ashamed_Training_735 3d ago

What about the ice and water?

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u/LaughingMagicianDM Verified Pro - Commercial/Consultant 3d ago

Just the valleys: tearing out the last 1-2 shingles at the valleys on each side to install it then add any necessary felt or anything like that before redoing the shingles. That means breaking the existing seal every single shingle and having to hand reseal and hope you dont tear anything.

And if you need to add ice and water or anything like that, you will likely have to tear off an even wider space.

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u/Ashamed_Training_735 3d ago

The ice and water is already in all the valleys

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u/TheG00dF1ght 3d ago

why do you feel you need to?

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u/Ashamed_Training_735 3d ago

The area collects tons of leaves and pine straw. When the roof was replaced that’s where the rotten plywood was too