How To Install Vinyl Clapboard Siding

Fastening strips are the key to vinyl installation.

How to install vinyl clapboard siding.

This goes for fiber cement hardwood and masonite siding. Generally the best idea is to remove any existing siding from your exterior walls before installing the vinyl siding. Although it was dirty and hard work i enjoyed every minute of it. The most common practice when installing vinyl siding over existing wood shingles or clapboard is to first put up rigid foam or fan fold.

By carter silva on february 6 2015. These products are designed primarily to pad imperfections on the walls so the new layer of siding will lay flatter. Snap a level chalk line around the bottom of the house about an inch above the bottom of the existing wood siding for a steel starter strip. Then notch the siding from the top and slide it under the faucet.

Behind the faucet mounting plate install 1 2 in. In my last article i wrote about installing a fence post. Co written by emanuel silva. Use a strip the same thickness as the top of.

Put a level starter strip around the house at the bottom of the wall as a starting point for clapboard and to mark the bottom for the corner boards. While covering lap siding with vinyl is an option for some siding other varieties of lap siding can t be covered by vinyl.