How To Install Vinyl Siding On A Peak

Some manufacturers of vinyl siding do not recommend the use of drop in backers with certain vinyl siding configurations.

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. Clearance on each window side. If you don t cut your siding short when it expands in the summer it s going to buckle. Nail the starter strip to the siding aligning the top of the strip with the chalk line.

Vinyl siding must never be applied directly to studs without sheathing. Clearance below the sill. As an alternative installation of specific types of drop in contoured foam underlayments for various styles of vinyl siding are available. Whatever your measurement is take at least 1 4 or 1 8 on both sides for the panel to slide back and forth.

Below the top of the foundation but the lower the vinyl siding is installed the better. From the top of this row and stretch a string line across the deck. You need to leave at least 1 4. Mark the height needed allowing 1 4 in.

Use the wider starter strip. Next lock a scrap piece of siding into the panel below butting against the window. Attach j channel trim strips around windows and doors and along the eaves. Next measure and cut the siding to fit the measurements of your soffit and push each panel into the j channel.

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. Nail vertical vinyl corners to the corners of the house making sure they are plumb. Begin by installing the first row of siding on both sides of the deck. Holding the siding panel under the window mark the width of the opening on the panel allowing 1 4 in.

Pop a level chalk line for the starter strip an inch or two above the bottom of the siding. To provide a common reference point measure up 8 in.