How To Install Vinyl Siding Inside Corner

Installing inside corner.

How to install vinyl siding inside corner.

Mice bees and all sorts of other critters love making their home inside vinyl corner posts. To install vinyl siding to the soffit and fascia area on your home nail lengths of j channel along the inner edge of the fascia leaving the nail heads out about 1 32 to 1 16 of an inch. Next measure and cut the siding to fit the measurements of your soffit and push each panel into the j channel. Insulation for vinyl siding 1.

Find the lowest corner of the old siding or sheathing on the house. The way to allow for this expansion is to install the corner post down from the soffit or top of the corner. Place the corner post in position allowing a 1 4 6 4mm gap between the top of the post and the eave or soffit. Expansionwhen the temperature changes vinyl siding expands and contracts.

Partly drive a nail 11 2 in. Hammer the first nail into the nailing slot. Cap the corner posts. Each corner should be hung straight so drop a plumb line for each corner post.

The bottom of the starter strip the part the bottom panel hooks on to should be at least. Inside corner posts can be a single or double j channel or a factory formed inside corner. Position starter strip with the top edge of chalk line and allow room for corner posts.