How To Install Vinyl Clapboard 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.

How to install vinyl clapboard siding.

By carter silva on february 6 2015. This goes for fiber cement hardwood and masonite siding. Although it was dirty and hard work i enjoyed every minute of it. Generally the best idea is to remove any existing siding from your exterior walls before installing the vinyl siding.

Plywood in place of insulation board. Use a strip the same thickness as the top of. 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. Then notch the siding from the top and slide it under the faucet.

Fastening strips are the key to vinyl installation. 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. If the faucet falls in the center of the. These products are designed primarily to pad imperfections on the walls so the new layer of siding will lay flatter.

Seeing that fence post today standing plumb and solid makes me feel glad that all the steps i did were well worth it. While covering lap siding with vinyl is an option for some siding other varieties of lap siding can t be covered by vinyl.