Black Drip Edge Vs White Drip Edge

Our supplier recommended black.

Black drip edge vs white drip edge. Our house will be painted a medium gray and all trim fascia soffit will be painted white to make marvin ultrex white windows. Due to cohesion surface tension and other forces water droplets tend to stick to one another and to the surfaces they are on albeit slightly. We used gaf timberline hd color. Scro s roofing company uses black white or brown drip edge.

I m guessing this is not a one size fits all situation but matched white fascia drip edges definitely seem most common on homes. The roofers installed the wrong colour drip edge on our new roof. Our siding fascia and soffits are going to be a more subtle white classic grey see below. The black drip edge is the most commonly used on our roofs and gives a fantastic thick shadow affect to the edges.

Should it be white like the trim. A drip edge is designed to take advantage of those forces and along with gravity direct water into the gutter. Pewter grey with the black drip edge. I ve seen drip edges on some homes that do not match fascia and it does look bad.

The beautiful new roof below on the left is located in cary nc. We will be installing landmark driftwood shingles. It is still a very light white grey colour but do you think that one pure white drip edge str. It is pure white versus a more subtle white.

Direct water away from fascia. Drip edges are easily painted to match your trim. A drip edge that matches the roof will be less likely to show dirt staining from asphalt shingles right. Drip edges have two key purposes.