Below the top of the foundation but the lower the vinyl siding is installed the better.
How to install vinyl siding on a peak.
It protects the sheathing from rain snow and pests.
Whatever your measurement is take at least 1 4 or 1 8 on both sides for the panel to slide back and forth.
Attach j channel trim strips around windows and doors and along the eaves.
Use the wider starter strip.
A great tutorial on how to cut install vinyl siding using just the side track saw table ordinary stanley knife shows cuts around top bottom of a windo.
Begin by installing the first row of siding on both sides of the deck.
Clearance on each window side.
To provide a common reference point measure up 8 in.
Nail the starter strip to the siding aligning the top of the strip with the chalk line.
Some manufacturers of vinyl siding do not recommend the use of drop in backers with certain vinyl siding configurations.
To install vinyl siding to the soffit and fascia area on your home nail lengths of j channel along the inner edge of the fascia leaving the nail heads out about 1 32 to 1 16 of an inch.
When cutting vinyl siding it s usually to go into a corner.
Next lock a scrap piece of siding into the panel below butting against the window.
Holding the siding panel under the window mark the width of the opening on the panel allowing 1 4 in.
Clearance below the sill.
Pop a level chalk line for the starter strip an inch or two above the bottom of the siding.
Vinyl siding must never be applied directly to studs without sheathing.
Mark the height needed allowing 1 4 in.
From the top of this row and stretch a string line across the deck.
As an alternative installation of specific types of drop in contoured foam underlayments for various styles of vinyl siding are available.
You need to leave at least 1 4.
The bottom of the starter strip the part the bottom panel hooks on to should be at least 1 in.