How To Replace Piece Of Siding

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How to replace piece of siding.

Use a pair of tin snips or a utility knife to cut the siding and place a straightedge on the piece to keep your cut. Take the replacement board fit it in place image 2 and nail it in with a hammer using galvanized nails. Look on the left or right side of that initial piece to find the buttlock seam that covers the nail fasteners. Carefully slide the flat pry bar behind the damaged siding in order to pry out the nails.

Install new siding slide the replacement piece up into place pushing up until the lower lip locks into the piece below it. Trim a replacement piece of siding to the same length as the damaged piece. Subscribe to this old house. Ask this old house general contractor tom silva helps a homeowner repair sections of his vinyl siding that have holes.

Remove any nails from the top piece of good siding. The courses should overlap by at least 1 in. To remove and replace damaged siding. Pull siding away from house and cut through the bottom edge with aviation snips.

Locate the first piece of vertical siding that you re removing. Cut the fiber cement siding to length wear approved dust protection. Use a pry bar to remove the damaged siding. Cut piece of faded siding from an inconspicuous spot to replace the damaged section.

Use framing square and utility knife to cut through face of siding. Using the same process in step one unzip the piece of siding above the damaged piece and hold it out of the way. Nail straight down on the replacement board in order to hit studs. Above the bottom edge.

Fill in the nail holes. Space them about every 16 inches near the old nail holes. Place the replacement piece of siding in the proper location pushing up until the lower lip locks with the piece below. Attach the siding with 10d galvanized box nails driven into the overlap at least 1 2 in.

Replace siding by working from the bottom up you might need a helper here. Blind nail the fiber cement siding in place starting with the bottom piece. It ll better match the house than brand new siding.