Originally Posted by
Frank Bombardiere
Just curious, how many of you ever actually see flashed lintels or weeps at lintels for that matter. It is not done here. Not saying it is right, but I never see it that way.
Not much brick veneer here, but what I see has the flashing, and if not before I see it, it does afterward.
It seems to me that the lintel would drain itself without flashing and with the gap allowing air infiltration into the joint.
The problem is not the lintel draining itself (as water does not readily go through metal) it is that the lintel-to-wall joint which needs to be flashed to keep water from going down behind the lintel into the wall below. To do that requires flashing, and that flashing is then required to extend all the way out and over the lintel.
That was not done many years ago, and that is why you see so many rusting old lintels from back then.