Flashing Assemblies

PL:BECS provides detailed installation drawings for complex flashing junctures for optimum clarity.

Flashing design, which is largely the art of directing water flow within and over a building’s exterior cladding systems, may seem like a relatively simple challenge. Conceptually it may be. Yet, nearly all buildings possess numerous junctures in their exterior claddings which are quite complex, by virtue of geometry, the confluence of different cladding systems into one location, installation-sequencing considerations, and the need to co-ordinate the work of several different sub-contractors on literally the same few square inches of building surface. Most buildings have junctures where all these factors apply simultaneously, which can create at times seemingly un-installable conditions. Serious leaks into buildings very often originate at such complex junctures.

To minimize the resulting infiltration risks, PL:BECS provides detailed, 3-dimensional, sequenced installation drawings to help visualize the entire sequence needed for proper integration of such flashings into the building envelope system.

PL:BECS provides guidance in the design of specific configurations of flashings for various conditions, selection of appropriate materials, metal gages suitable for varied locations, and related services. PL:BECS has intimate familiarity with numerous self-adhered flashing membranes for normal or high-temperature locations, un-adhered flexible flashings, pre-manufactured penetration flashing products, single-ply flashing membranes, flashing tapes, sheet metal materials, and related products.

However, this expertise is rooted not only in a long history of providing technical guidance from an academic, theoretical perspective, but in deep hands-on design and installation experience as well. Paul has been designing and installing flashing systems for over two decades. His personal construction of a Sino-Japanese inspired garden for his family has been ongoing since 1999. Paul has designed and installed all of its many complex flashings.