How To Install Vinyl Siding On An Old House

Not just another vinyl siding installation video.

How to install vinyl siding on an old house.

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. To prevent the relatively thin panels from buckling observe these fitting and nailing rules. Gap at all ends. To provide a common reference point measure up 8 in.

Vinyl siding covers millions of new construction homes. For home remodels vinyl siding can even be installed directly over some forms of existing siding. From the top of this row and stretch a string line across the deck. Placing vinyl over the old wood siding can mask or even cause water damage.

The siding slides behind vinyl siding trim pieces that hide the gap and the cut end. Also vinyl siding can act like an exterior vapor barrier trapping moisture within the walls and abetting decay. This is our most comprehensive. 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.

When you want house siding that endures the elements with little complaint and is easy on your budget consider installing vinyl siding. Install vinyl siding from the foundation up snapping successive pieces into the lip at the top of each piece and nailing the siding to the side of the house. The reason for the loose nailing has to do with the vinyl s and polypropylene s need to expand or contract as the temperature changes. While wood siding is fastened tightly to the house vinyl siding literally hangs from nails driven through horizontal slots at the top of a panel s nailing hem.

Fastening strips fastening strips are the key to vinyl installation. Begin by installing the first row of siding on both sides of the deck. In very cold weather vinyl cracks easily and its color will fade over time. We cover how to move doors and windows and create a weather proof exterior.

Vinyl siding installation is designed to hang loosely on the sheathing so that it can expand and contract with temperature changes.