How To Remove Nails From Wood Siding

In this gem from the fine homebuilding video vault john ross shows us how how finesse and a few special tools help to free bent headless and the most stubborn of all galvanized nails.

How to remove nails from wood siding.

Slide the blade of a hacksaw. Place the straight slots of a cat s paw tool to the head of each siding nail. Take your hammer and find out the nail you want to remove. Slide a pry bar underneath the panel to slowly lift it up.

Cutting the nails will let you remove rotted boards without damaging those your e saving. Leave the wood cleaner on the wood for 15 to 30 minutes. Use a nail puller to extract the nails that hold the damaged area in place. Press the upper siding board back against the wall leaving the popped nail heads accessible.

How to remove nails with hammer. Use a small hacksaw with a sharp blade. Pulling nails from boards with a hammer claw using brute force is a sure way to create ugly gouges and to bruise your knuckles. Pry bars would dent the.

Wet the wood with a hose and apply the wood cleaner with a roller or sprayer. Step 3 remove nails. Be careful not to damage the adjacent wood. How to remove nails from siding 1.

Pry the nail head up from the siding to remove. When the head rises make a secure and tight hold on the head of the nail and create a. Insert a pry bar between the piece of siding from which you want to remove the nails and the one above it. For nails that prove difficult to remove use a hacksaw.

Tap the back of the cat s paw to drive the prongs under the nail head. Set your hammer to the head of the nail and then pry it. To get at the nails carefully wedge out the bottom of the siding 1 8 to 3 16 in. It was installed with ring shank nails.

The job was to remove the metal siding without damaging it and reuse it for another building. Keep prying until the head rises from wood or other surfaces. Step 3 scrub the siding vigorously with a nylon scrub brush.