Remove Siding Nails

Take your hammer and find out the nail you want to remove.

Remove siding nails. Use a crowbar flat bar or a claw hammer to pull all of the exposed nails from the piece of siding. If you happen to miss a nail the piece of siding will not come off of the house. Remove the anchoring nails. Position the pry bar beside a nail and pry the upper board outward until the nail pops.

Work methodically from left to right taking care not to skip any nails. Look on the left or right side of that initial piece to find the buttlock seam that covers the nail fasteners. Pry the piece of siding out toward you gently to let you see the nail or screw patterning of how the planks have been fastened to the under structure. Pry bars would dent the.

Up off the siding. Insert a pry bar between the piece of siding from which you want to remove the nails and the one above it. Renail the siding keeping the new nail in the center of the nailing slot and leaving it about 1 16 in. The job was to remove the metal siding without damaging it and reuse it for another building.

Locate the first piece of vertical siding that you re removing. Keep prying until the head rises from wood or other surfaces. Lift the siding up and look for nails that have been hammered in too tightly. Loosen the tight nail or cut it with a hacksaw.

Set your hammer to the head of the nail and then pry it.