How To Install Inside Corner For Wood Siding

How to install corner boards for clapboard siding 1.

How to install inside corner for wood siding.

Use a felt paper spline wrapped around the corner and extending 6 inches beyond the corner board to protect the joints where the siding meets the corner boards see figure 1 5 at left. Diamond kote nail fin inside corner installation built on lp smartside duration. A woven inside corner is much more difficult to achieve so the usual practice is to install inside corner trim prior to shingling. Put a level starter strip around the house at the bottom of the wall as a starting point for clapboard and to mark.

Each corner should be hung straight so drop a plumb line for each corner post. We used 1 1 4 long 1 4 galvanized staples to install this cedar. Note photo example. Nail the clapboard to the studs.

Hammer the first nail into the nailing slot. Join the clapboards with scarf joints as in step 3. Use overlapping 1x4s or 1x6s at outside corners or use 5 4 stock for a heavier look. Expansionwhen the temperature changes vinyl siding expands and contracts.

The way to allow for this expansion is to install the corner post down from the soffit or top of the corner. If more than one clapboard is needed to span a wall snap a chalk line between the marks on the corner boards on top of the course being overlapped. Because shingles can swell slightly it is sometimes recommended that you provide 1 8 inch gaps between the shingles. We started at a corner since all four corners were going to have corner board trim installed.

I build it home 180 916 views. Carefully slide the notched piece of siding into place. Use a square length of 5 4 stock at inside corners with a spline underneath.