How To Remove Siding To Install A Deck

Make the outline large enough to include space for the deck boards on top the ledger and any trim boards on the sides.

How to remove siding to install a deck.

However the texture of the cedar shingles was more in line with our vision. Not just another vinyl siding installation video. This is our most comprehensive. Nail undersill trim j channel will also work over the bottom cut using 11 gauge aluminum nails.

Aluminum and vinyl siding can easily be removed with tin snips from an area one foot surrounding the ledger board location. Most people would say that once you ve invested in vinyl there s little desire to remove it unless it needs to be repaired. Our decision to remove the siding raised questions amongst our family and friends. If needed tap with a hammer and scrap piece to force it all the way down.

Slip the last board under the siding. Add the next to last board. Wood or concrete siding will have to be cut away using a circular saw. Do not fasten yet.

Use a cat s paw or other small pry bar to pull the nails from the course you need to remove. Look for a horizontal seam between two courses of vinyl siding. How to use flashing between vinyl siding and a wood deck. If the shingle already has flashing on it the kickout flashing has to slip beneath it and you ll have to loosen or remove siding to do this.

Add felt if needed before nailing the new wood on and prime the new wood on all four sides before installing it. To prevent water from seeping behind the deck s ledger board and rotting the board and the siding the flashing must cover the top of the ledger board and bend over the edge. You can then trim the pieces to be reinstalled with a j channel after the deck is completed for a clean finished look. You may need to remove the next to last board in order to slip the last board in place.

Insert the siding removal tool where the panels overlap and pull down and out. Pull the piece of vinyl siding downward to disengage it from the course below it. Attaching a deck to your house creates the potential for rot not only to the ledger board that you attach to the house to support the. Do not fasten yet.

Add the next to last board then drive the screws.