How To Replace Wood Clapboard Siding

Pull the bar toward you don t push it so you don t mar or crack the neighboring clapboards.

How to replace wood clapboard siding.

Grab butt edge of damaged clapboard and lift up sharply snapping it. Stagger butt joints if you re replacing multiple courses. How to replace damaged clapboards step 1. Allow the primer to dry and you re ready for the final coat of paint.

Your damaged wood clapboard siding board will be firmly rooted in place. Photo by webb chappell. Cut the new siding to length prime all four sides and allow the primer to dry before installing. 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.

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. Pull nails from split clapboard. Tap flat bar under siding to loosen nails. Decide which boards need replacing and where to make your cuts.

Using some good quality paintable caulk caulk the top and bottom edges of the new piece of siding. Make the first cut with a circular saw. Using a wood scrap gently tap the siding into place from the opposite end to finish the job nail your new piece of siding to the studs using hot dipped galvanized nails. To remove pry them from the house with thin pry bars and a hammer.

Pull loose nails from clapboard siding. Cut and prime replacement siding. Start by identifying the damaged clapboards. Finish the cut with a sharp utility knife.

How to repair wood siding. Caulk the end joint and prime the front of each clapboard image 3. 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. Specifically he shows every step in how to remove old.

All wood clapboard siding is coated in paint often multiple layers that have been applied over decades. Before installing the. To make the replacement clapboard measure the location of the old one not the board you just removed. Secure old siding by driving ring shank nails down at an angle through the old nail holes.