How To Install Vinyl Clapboard Siding

Snap a level chalk line around the bottom of the house about an inch above the bottom of the existing wood siding for a steel starter strip.

How to install vinyl clapboard siding.

Plywood in place of insulation board. Then notch the siding from the top and slide it under the faucet. This goes for fiber cement hardwood and masonite siding. Generally the best idea is to remove any existing siding from your exterior walls before installing the vinyl siding.

Use a strip the same thickness as the top of. By carter silva on february 6 2015. Although it was dirty and hard work i enjoyed every minute of it. These products are designed primarily to pad imperfections on the walls so the new layer of siding will lay flatter.

The most common practice when installing vinyl siding over existing wood shingles or clapboard is to first put up rigid foam or fan fold. While covering lap siding with vinyl is an option for some siding other varieties of lap siding can t be covered by vinyl. If the faucet falls in the center of the. Seeing that fence post today standing plumb and solid makes me feel glad that all the steps i did were well worth it.

Co written by emanuel silva. In my last article i wrote about installing a fence post.