How To Repair A Metal Siding Corner

Aluminum siding joins together much like vinyl so it s fairly easy to patch or replace a panel.

How to repair a metal siding corner.

You will then get the new piece held up to the existing nailing strips and push them into place. Install the corner posts that came with your metal siding first. Alternately for a different look take them all off trim the clapboards back a bit and install a vertical wooden lapped corner. For the pieces that can be repaired you will simply need to get a bead of silicone caulk and run it along the flanges of the pieces that can be fixed.

Corner caps are small pieces sometimes used instead of corner posts for aluminum siding. To do this you can use masking tape. This is the not fun part since there is usually a blind nail at the top of the corner holding it in place. Do not do this along the pieces that need to be replaced.

Cut a segment out of the coil stock and use the old flattened corner and trace the outline onto the blank. So now that we have the corner off use the pliers to flatten the corner to make the template. Nail the cap down. This piece shows you how to repair siding along with corner caps.

Masking tape is essential as a way of protecting the siding so that you don t scratch it while cutting near it. Nail underneath at each corner with a small corrosion resistant ring shank nail. Do it until all but the last end cap are fastened in place. Starting at the bottom and working your way up the corner slip a replacement cap under the bottom edges of the panels above it.

The exact installation process may vary depending on the siding you re using but generally you will need to position the posts on the corners and then nail them into place using the cut out nail slots. This is a chemical reaction which will leave the metal siding having white dull patches over the surface of the metal. Step 1 slide the vinyl siding removal tool just under the bottom lip of the uppermost piece of vinyl siding and pry gently upwards. The corner posts are the pieces of siding that will wrap around the corners of the surface you re working on.

Put the next cap on repeating steps 3 and 4. Although aluminum doesn t rust it can oxidize.