How To Put Up Siding Panels

It protects the sheathing from rain snow and pests.

How to put up siding panels.

The bottom of the starter strip the part the bottom panel hooks on to should be at least 1 in. First install the strip around the bottom of the entire building securely so that the sheet metal will slip under it easily. Be sure the flashing overlaps the siding course below. Make a cutting guide make a cutting guide for long straight cuts.

To keep your vertical metal siding looking polished and balanced you want to avoid installing a partial panel on only one side of the wall. Before applying any adhesive arrange all the panels in the room and number them. Guiding the saw base on the 1x4 cut the plywood to make the cutting guide. This is the most important step in the whole project in order to keep rain and snow from seeping under the metal siding.

Leave a small gap at butt joints and fill with caulk. Measure the height of the piece you need to cut by butting a scrap piece of siding beneath and above the window and marking the necessary height leaving an additional 1 4 inch 0 6 cm of clearance. Position and press the panel into place. Put 1 by 4 boards quarter round or.

Make sure cut openings line up. Paint all cut edges before nailing panels in place. Transfer this measurement onto the piece of siding. Below the top of the foundation but the lower the vinyl siding is installed the better.

Finish the siding with trim molding typically 1 by 4 inch boards around doors and windows and on corners. However this type of siding is no longer widely used due to the weather damage issues it is prone to. Instead you should cut two partial panels that are each half the length of the partial panel you need and install them on each end of the wall. Apply adhesive with a caulk gun in a w or wave pattern.

If hand nailing fiber cement siding use hot dipped galvanized nails and drive the nails into the wall studs. Drive screws to fasten a straight 8 foot long 1x4 or 1x3 against the factory edge of an 8 foot long piece of plywood that is at least 10 inches wide. As you install the sheet metal siding be sure that the panels are lined up straight.