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. 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. 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. Most vinyl siding can easily be repaired by replacing a small section of siding. However colored aluminum siding is often difficult to match so.

Protect sound siding with a scrap piece of 1 4 in. Slide the zip tool along the bottom edge to release the vinyl siding from the piece below it. Placing your hardie board. Take the replacement board fit it in place image 2 and nail it in with a hammer using galvanized nails.

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. To remove and replace damaged siding. Nail straight down on the replacement board in order to hit studs. Use a pry bar to remove the damaged siding.

Cost to replace siding. Face nail the top piece of fiber cement siding through the old. Placing the new piece of hardie board is just as simple as the demo. Remove any nails from the top piece of good siding.

Carefully slide the flat pry bar behind the damaged siding in order to pry out the nails. 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. 15 minute vinyl siding repair with a zip tool. Cut the fiber cement siding to length wear approved dust protection.

Remove any nails that still might be underneath the bottom portion of the piece above the one you removed. If the piece of siding that you re replacing doesn t extend all the way from one corner of the wall to the other cut the replacement piece 2 inches longer than the bare area on the wall. The vinyl siding zip tool will save you loads of time. Be sure to nail into the existing holes on the adjacent siding.

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.