How To Start Vinyl Siding On A Deck

It protects the sheathing from rain snow and pests.

How to start vinyl siding on a deck.

Soffit and fascia if the soffit on your home wraps around a corner as with a hip roof you ll need to make some. Vinyl siding duration. Below the top of the foundation but the lower the vinyl siding is installed the better. Most suppliers sell two sizes of starter 2 1 2 in.

Vinyl siding starter strips. 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 install and flash a deck ledger start to finish duration. Snap a level chalk line for the first starter strip at the base of the wall no less than 8 inches above ground level after determining the lowest corner of the house.

This is our most comprehensive. Soffit and fascia starting with the soffit nail lengths of j channel against the inner edge of the fascia board. This chalk line should be level and a consistent distance from the eaves or the top and bottom of the windows. End under the butt of the overlapping panel at the level where you want to begin removing siding.

Use an unlocking tool like malco s sideswiper sometimes called a euro oelig zip lock euro. Divide the length of each wall by 8 inches the width of a piece of siding. But if the result is not a whole number you will need to cut the final piece of siding lengthwise in order to fill in. If the result is a whole number you re in.

If you have to cut the last row of siding you ll. Spend the extra few bucks on the wider stuff and start your siding a bit lower. James hardie siding deck flashing. Soffits fascia and corner boards.

Installing vinyl siding in these 23 steps step 1. Snap a chalk line cut out the siding and tack up the ledger board. We cover how to move doors and windows and create a weather proof exterior. This is where the new siding will begin.

I start by installing the high trim rakes soffits and fascias. The simplest siding to remove replace and repair is probably vinyl lap siding figure 13 because you can unzip the overlaps without pulling out nails. For rakes i usually bend aluminum coil stock on a sheet metal brake to wrap the face and bottom edge of a 1x rake board. Most pieces of vinyl trim though go by the same names as their wood siding counterparts.

The bottom of the starter strip the part the bottom panel hooks on to should be at least 1 in. Start by making an outline on the siding where you want to position the ledger board.