Putting Up Siding Yourself

The change can be remarkable and is sure to turn heads and impress your neighbors.

Putting up siding yourself.

Installing aluminum siding may be the most eye catching home improvement that you can make. Vinyl siding is tough durable and maintenance free. Soffit and fascia starting with the soffit nail lengths of j channel against the inner edge of the fascia board. This is the most important step in the whole project in order to keep rain and snow from seeping under the metal siding.

With a little know how and a. Tips on installing vinyl siding maintenance free. When installing each sheet be sure to hammer the nails into the pre cut holes. For layout the story pole is indispensable.

How to install aluminum siding. Slide the zip tool under the butt edge. You ll need specialty tools like this zip tool to work with installing vinyl siding. Working with vinyl siding.

There are certain materials that you can leave on the house if it s in good shape. Lay out the job when applying horizontal siding to avoid odd slivers of material above doors and above or below windows. Installing vinyl siding in these 23 steps step 1. Divide the length of each wall by 8 inches the width of a piece of siding.

But if the result is not a whole number you will need to cut the final piece of siding lengthwise in order to fill in. Siding should progress up the wall with an even exposure and courses should line up when they meet at a corner. You ll need a zip tool to remove siding. I am using special siding clamps that lets me do everything solo.

If you have to cut the last row of siding you ll. Soffit and fascia if the soffit on your home wraps around a corner as with a hip roof you ll need to make some. It needs nothing more than a rinse from a hose to. Overlap each sheet by at least 2 inches.

In this video i am using lp smartside lap siding to side my house.