Replacing Cracked Siding

How to prevent serious siding damage if your siding is buckling splitting warping delaminating or coming loose in large areas or if you see mold or other signs of moisture inside the siding remove a section and take a look.

Replacing cracked siding.

When you replace these boards make sure you have good flashing along the joint. Consider replacing rotted areas with fiber cement siding. Take the replacement board fit it in place image 2 and nail it in with a hammer using galvanized nails. Gap between siding and shingles.

Be sure to nail into the existing holes on the adjacent siding. To repair vinyl siding fill in minor imperfections with caulk and then paint it to match the rest of the siding once it cures. Small cracks can be repaired with a special patching compound before they cause breaks saving you the work of removing and replacing a damaged panel. Secure old siding by driving ring shank nails down at an angle through the old nail holes.

No matter how durable fiber cement siding is though cracks can still occur. Cut out the damaged piece of siding leaving a space 2 inches shorter than the replacement piece. Install the replacement piece over the existing siding and attach with roofing nails. Fiber cement siding is low cost for its rated lifespan and is easy to maintain when compared with other siding choices.

Nail straight down on the replacement board in order to hit studs. The downside of replacing older vinyl siding is that it can be hard to match the style and color and siding rarely has any identifying marks. Tap flat bar under siding to loosen nails. Pull loose nails from clapboard siding.

Install the new siding so there s a 1 in. Where siding meets a roof it will rot if the siding touches the shingles. In this video this old house general contractor tom silva explains how to repair clapboards. Use the snips to cut away about two inches of the top nailing strip and the bottom j profile from both ends of the replacement piece.

This chapter shows how to repair most types of siding including stucco.