How Siding Works

The siding is made from thin flexible sheets of plastic about 2 millimeters thick pre colored and bent into shape during manufacturing.

How siding works.

You ll need a zip tool to remove siding. Soffit and fascia if the soffit on your home wraps around a corner as with a hip roof you ll need to make some. The sheets are 12 feet long and about a foot high. Also you want to follow the natural flow of water and aim downward with the hose rather than up from the ground.

How to prepare your home. This time frame includes the removal of your current siding prep work insulation new siding installation and final touches. You start at the bottom and the sheets interlock into each other as you go up. The siding is naturally designed to drain water downward source.

Make sure to trim shrubbery and trees around your home. You ll need specialty tools like this zip tool to work with installing vinyl siding. Working with vinyl siding. Soffit and fascia starting with the soffit nail lengths of j channel against the inner edge of the fascia board.

You don t want a pressurized source of water to hit the siding directly because you might cause damage to the siding or the wall behind the siding. If you also include painting this will add a few days. Siding installation generally takes approximately 10 to 14 days. Home siding no matter the material has two basic functions.

Slide the zip tool under the butt edge. The first is to protect your home from outside elements like rain snow hail or ice. Installing vinyl siding in these 23 steps step 1.