2025
Fabricated Flashings: Protecting your home with style
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Protecting your home from water is one of the one of the best ways to ensure its longevity. Unfortunately, the way houses are built allows water to collect in certain areas of the exterior which can lead to leaks, mold or mildew. Thankfully there is a way to protect your home from this water collection and that is by making use of flashing, a specialized piece of hardware. Curb Appeal is also important to a home, it helps the property maintain value and it just feels good to live in a nice-looking home. In today’s blog we will be looking at how flashing can protect your home in style using fabricated flashing.
How does flashing protect your home?
Flashing is waterproof material placed in areas where water collects to direct the flow of water away from the home. It is usually installed where the roof and wall meet, around windows and doors, around the chimney and in other areas where ventilation or other utilities exit from your home.
How can flashing improve your homes’ curb appeal?
More than just important water protection, flashing can be used to add to the visual identity of your home. Because flashing is usually installed at joints or areas where one piece of material meets another it can be used to meld colors together or to create interesting pops of contrast. To meet this need flashing can be fabricated in a wide variety of colors such as the typical light colors and earth tones to striking blues, reds and metallics.
We hope we have been able to show you the many benefits of flashing for your home. If you have any questions about flashing or any other fabricated steel products, please feel free to contact us.
Since 2004, Klassen Building Supplies has been a leader in sheet metal fabrication, supply, and installation in the Vancouver area. Klassen also does considerable custom metal work.
If you have any questions about this article or any of our sheet metal supplies, please call us at (604) 543-7331 or use the convenient form on our Contact page. Klassen is based in Surrey, BC.
