How To Replace One Piece Of Lap Siding

Before the fiber cement shake panels image 1 go up you ll need to put up the fascia board.

How to replace one piece of lap siding.

Blind nail the fiber cement siding in place starting with the bottom piece. Just the nails that will prevent the new board from sliding back into place you can either completely remove the nails or clip them off. When you replace the boards use a homemade reveal set jig to match the reveal of the existing siding. Run a utility knife horizontally along the entire length of the broken wood siding to score it.

How to repair and replace siding step 1. Make another cut with the knife through the. Above the bottom edge. Placing your hardie board.

Remove any nails that still might be underneath the bottom portion of the piece above the one you removed. Use a pry bar to remove the damaged siding. You can use a tape measure to mark the reveal of each piece of replacement siding or make a spacer gauge from two blocks of wood screwed together. Score down the damaged lap siding with a utility knife.

Attach the siding with 10d galvanized box nails driven into the overlap at least 1 2 in. Watch this graphic depiction of the removal and replacement of hardboard siding. How to change a piece of broken wood siding. Remove the nails in the corner cap.

To install the replacement siding start at the bottom and work your way up. Replace siding by working from the bottom up you might need a helper here. Specifically he shows every step in how to remove old. Overlap the boards so each row of new siding has the same reveal as the old siding.

Remove the nails on. To replicate the. Remove any nails from the top piece of good siding. Placing the new piece of hardie board is just as simple as the demo.