How To Replace Vinyl Siding Pieces

When vinyl siding is first installed it is nailed through a nailing strip.

How to replace vinyl siding pieces.

The vinyl siding zip tool will save you loads of time. Lock the panel into the one below it then gently snug it up before nailing. Marking the position of each piece before you remove it photo 2 will help you reposition the siding without stretching it. Slide the zip tool along the bottom edge to release the vinyl siding from the piece below it.

The best way to get a replacement piece is to take the broken piece to vinyl siding distributors in your area and find the closest match. Use the snips to cut away about two inches of the top nailing strip and the bottom j profile from both ends of the replacement piece. Install siding at the top of a window or door in a similar fashion but this time set the siding on the window channel and use the window trim to mark the cut. Unlike with interlocking.

The siding slides behind vinyl siding trim pieces that hide the gap and the cut end. The bottom of the next course is locked into the nailing strip of the course below. The downside of replacing older vinyl siding is that it can be hard to match the style and color and siding rarely has any identifying marks. Install 1 2 inch 12 7 mm foam sheathing strips on both sides of each corner then install your corner siding pieces to these strips.

Starting at one end of the damaged piece push the end of the zip siding removal tool up under the siding until you feel it hook the bottom lip. When replacing siding try to purchase a piece from the same manufacturer in the same color. Cut out the damaged piece of siding leaving a space 2 inches shorter than the replacement piece. I hope this information helps you fix your siding.

Install the replacement piece over the existing siding and attach with roofing nails. Hi this is peggy. The corner posts should run from 3 4 inch 1 9 cm below the bottom of the starter strip to just beneath the eaves after the soffit pieces have been installed.