How To Do Vinyl Siding Around Windows

Soffit and fascia starting with.

How to do vinyl siding around windows.

Roofing nails should be hammered in every eight inches. Cutting and installing the molding. Siding the soffit and fascia area 1. All vinyl siding and vinyl soffit and fascia can be cut with tin snips a circular saw with a plywood blade or by scoring it with a knife and breaking it.

Inspect the flashing and building wrap around the window. Lower the strip so that it releases the vinyl below it. Install lengths of j channel along the inner edge of the fascia. If the soffit on your house wraps around a corner you will need to.

Remove the window and screen. Working with vinyl siding. Cut the perimeter. Now is also the time to add or replace a vinyl sill if you would like a window sill feature.

If the end of the strip is tucked into trim bow it to pull it out. You ll need specialty tools like this zip tool to work with installing vinyl siding. Measure and cut the soffit. Understand how to deal with wrap around soffit.

If the vinyl siding around the window area has been damaged or needs replacing then now is the time to remove it. Use tin snips to cut a length of j molding 2 inches longer than the width of the window. Instead remove any nails then use a siding removal tool to separate the siding panels. Place the siding where you want it and mark it a quarter inch from the edge.

Preparing window area for new vinyl 1. Get professional looking watertight results with these residing techniques. Continue in this manner until you have removed enough siding to replace the window. Dry wall surrounding the inside of the window may.

Take out dry wall surrounding window on the inside of the house. Slide the zip tool under the butt edge. Ensure that the flashing along the bottom of the window overlaps the nailing hem of. You ll need a zip tool to remove siding.

C matching your siding. There is no exact way to do this as long as you end up with the window and screen out. Continue cutting j molding for the remaining sides of the window and continue the process of nailing them. Nail j channel pieces under the fascia.