Replacing 1 Piece Of Siding

To learn how to repair wood siding remove rotted boards with a flat pry bar.

Replacing 1 piece of siding. Placing the new piece of hardie board is just as simple as the demo. Cut the fiber cement siding to length wear approved dust protection. 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. Near the old nail holes every 16 or so hammer 1 1 4 roofing nails into the new piece of siding to hold it in place.

Placing your hardie board. Be sure to nail into the existing holes on the adjacent siding. Take the replacement board fit it in place image 2 and nail it in with a hammer using galvanized nails. However colored aluminum siding is often difficult to match so.

Remove any nails from the top piece of good siding. Blind nail the fiber cement siding in place starting with the bottom piece. Face nail the top piece of fiber cement siding through the old. Once all the nails are removed from the adjoining board the damaged one should just pull out.

Protect sound siding with a scrap piece of 1 4 in. Remove any nails that still might be underneath the bottom portion of the piece above the one you removed. Place the replacement piece of siding in the proper location pushing up until the lower lip locks with the piece below. Nail straight down on the replacement board in order to hit studs.

After you remove the rotted courses use a small hacksaw to cut any protruding nail shanks or if you have a very strong grip use a good pair of wire cutters. The vinyl siding zip tool will save you loads of time. Most vinyl siding can easily be repaired by replacing a small section of siding. Slide the zip tool along the bottom edge to release the vinyl siding from the piece below it.

Carefully slide the flat pry bar behind the damaged siding in order to pry out the nails. 15 minute vinyl siding repair with a zip tool. A single section of vinyl siding that measures 12 to 12 1 2 long averages 40 per piece and takes a siding repairman only an hour to repair at a cost of 40 50 per hour. To remove and replace damaged siding.

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.