How To Install Vinyl Siding On A Peak

Clearance below the sill.

How to install vinyl siding on a peak.

The bottom of the starter strip the part the bottom panel hooks on to should be at least 1 in. To install vinyl siding to the soffit and fascia area on your home nail lengths of j channel along the inner edge of the fascia leaving the nail heads out about 1 32 to 1 16 of an inch. Some manufacturers of vinyl siding do not recommend the use of drop in backers with certain vinyl siding configurations. You need to leave at least 1 4.

It protects the sheathing from rain snow and pests. Nail vertical vinyl corners to the corners of the house making sure they are plumb. Mark the height needed allowing 1 4 in. Use the wider starter strip.

To provide a common reference point measure up 8 in. Pop a level chalk line for the starter strip an inch or two above the bottom of the siding. Begin by installing the first row of siding on both sides of the deck. Next lock a scrap piece of siding into the panel below butting against the window.

Next measure and cut the siding to fit the measurements of your soffit and push each panel into the j channel. Below the top of the foundation but the lower the vinyl siding is installed the better. Whatever your measurement is take at least 1 4 or 1 8 on both sides for the panel to slide back and forth. A great tutorial on how to cut install vinyl siding using just the side track saw table ordinary stanley knife shows cuts around top bottom of a windo.

As an alternative installation of specific types of drop in contoured foam underlayments for various styles of vinyl siding are available. Holding the siding panel under the window mark the width of the opening on the panel allowing 1 4 in. From the top of this row and stretch a string line across the deck. Attach j channel trim strips around windows and doors and along the eaves.

Clearance on each window side. When cutting vinyl siding it s usually to go into a corner.