How To Replace A Few Pieces Of Vinyl Siding

15 minute vinyl siding repair with a zip tool.

How to replace a few pieces of vinyl siding.

Look for a horizontal seam between two courses of vinyl siding. Remove a piece of the nailing strip and on the back to allow for expansion and contraction. Insert the siding removal tool where the panels overlap and pull down and out. So i was looking for more siding than you are but less than a whole box.

Install siding at the top of a window or door in a similar fashion but this time set the siding on the window channel and use the window trim to mark the cut. I m trying to find a few replacement pieces to fix some holes i have in the siding. A few years ago we enclosed a small porch on our house and i wanted to use siding to match the rest of the house. Pull the tool downward to bring the hook over the top of the new piece of siding.

Insert the zip tool into the hook at the bottom of the piece of vinyl above the new piece. Push the upper piece. I have the numbers off of the back of the siding but the local lowe s and the local home depot don t have a way to match them up. Replacement siding can be found at a building products store or a vinyl siding distributor.

At my local lowe s they did sell vinyl siding in single pieces but only in the most common colors. Tom uses a zip tool to reinstall vinyl siding which can be found at the local home center. Use a cat s paw or other small pry bar to pull the nails from the course you need to remove. How to remove and replace a section of vinyl siding.

The vinyl siding zip tool will save you loads of time. White and i think maybe beige or tan.