How To Install Vinyl Clapboard Siding

Generally the best idea is to remove any existing siding from your exterior walls before installing the vinyl siding.

How to install vinyl clapboard siding.

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. Seeing that fence post today standing plumb and solid makes me feel glad that all the steps i did were well worth it. Use a strip the same thickness as the top of.

By carter silva on february 6 2015. Fastening strips are the key to vinyl installation. In my last article i wrote about installing a fence post. These products are designed primarily to pad imperfections on the walls so the new layer of siding will lay flatter.

Plywood in place of insulation board. This goes for fiber cement hardwood and masonite siding. The most common practice when installing vinyl siding over existing wood shingles or clapboard is to first put up rigid foam or fan fold. Behind the faucet mounting plate install 1 2 in.

Co written by emanuel silva. 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.