How To Replace Wood Clapboard Siding

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How to replace wood clapboard siding.

In a pinch you can wrap duct tape around the bottom of a hacksaw blade to protect your hand and use it to cut through the nails. Using some good quality paintable caulk caulk the top and bottom edges of the new piece of siding. Before installing the. Decide which boards need replacing and where to make your cuts.

To break loose the lower half of the damaged piece start at one end and gently tap a small pry bar underneath the butt edge next to a nail. Compounding that caulking may have been injected into seams at any of the four edges. Caulk the end joint and prime the front of each clapboard image 3. Pull loose nails from clapboard siding.

Secure old siding by driving ring shank nails down at an angle through the old nail holes. Paint and prime the siding after the first course of siding is up image 1 you can start adding the rest slipping them under the courses above and nailing in place image 2. To remove pry them from the house with thin pry bars and a hammer. Cut and prime replacement siding.

Make the first cut with a circular saw. Tap flat bar under siding to loosen nails. Your damaged wood clapboard siding board will be firmly rooted in place. How to repair wood siding.

Pull nails from split clapboard. Pull the bar toward you don t push it so you don t mar or crack the neighboring clapboards. Grab butt edge of damaged clapboard and lift up sharply snapping it. How to replace damaged clapboards step 1.

Finish the cut with a sharp utility knife. Nails pierce both of top and bottom adjacent boards plus the damaged board itself. Stagger butt joints if you re replacing multiple courses. To make the replacement clapboard measure the location of the old one not the board you just removed.

Use galvanized nails to attach the new siding to studs. All wood clapboard siding is coated in paint often multiple layers that have been applied over decades. Start by identifying the damaged clapboards. Specifically he shows every step in how to remove old.