How To Replace Wood Clapboard Siding

Start by identifying the damaged clapboards.

How to replace wood clapboard siding.

All wood clapboard siding is coated in paint often multiple layers that have been applied over decades. Nails pierce both of top and bottom adjacent boards plus the damaged board itself. Using a wood scrap gently tap the siding into place from the opposite end to finish the job nail your new piece of siding to the studs using hot dipped galvanized nails. Decide which boards need replacing and where to make your cuts.

To remove pry them from the house with thin pry bars and a hammer. Use galvanized nails to attach the new siding to studs. Using some good quality paintable caulk caulk the top and bottom edges of the new piece of siding. Secure old siding by driving ring shank nails down at an angle through the old nail holes.

Allow the primer to dry and you re ready for the final coat of paint. Compounding that caulking may have been injected into seams at any of the four edges. Pull the bar toward you don t push it so you don t mar or crack the neighboring clapboards. In a pinch you can wrap duct tape around the bottom of a hacksaw blade to protect your hand and use it to cut through the nails.

To make the replacement clapboard measure the location of the old one not the board you just removed. Pull nails from split clapboard. Grab butt edge of damaged clapboard and lift up sharply snapping it. How to repair wood siding.

Cut and prime replacement siding. Before installing the. Photo by webb chappell. How to replace damaged clapboards step 1.

To break loose the lower half of the damaged piece start at one end and gently tap a small pry bar underneath the butt edge next to a nail. Cut the new siding to length prime all four sides and allow the primer to dry before installing. Specifically he shows every step in how to remove old. Pull loose nails from clapboard siding.

Paint and prime the siding after the first course of siding is up image 1 you can start adding the rest slipping them under the courses above and nailing in place image 2. Stagger butt joints if you re replacing multiple courses. Your damaged wood clapboard siding board will be firmly rooted in place. Make the first cut with a circular saw.