How Siding Works

You ll need specialty tools like this zip tool to work with installing vinyl siding.

How siding works.

The sheets are 12 feet long and about a foot high. There are other elements protecting your home but your siding is the first barrier to entry. If you also include painting this will add a few days. Make sure to trim shrubbery and trees around your home.

You start at the bottom and the sheets interlock into each other as you go up. The second function of home siding is design. Soffit and fascia if the soffit on your home wraps around a corner as with a hip roof you ll need to make some. Installing vinyl siding in these 23 steps step 1.

Siding installation generally takes approximately 10 to 14 days. This time frame includes the removal of your current siding prep work insulation new siding installation and final touches. The siding is made from thin flexible sheets of plastic about 2 millimeters thick pre colored and bent into shape during manufacturing. Home siding no matter the material has two basic functions.

The siding is naturally designed to drain water downward source. Also you want to follow the natural flow of water and aim downward with the hose rather than up from the ground. The first is to protect your home from outside elements like rain snow hail or ice. Soffit and fascia starting with the soffit nail lengths of j channel against the inner edge of the fascia board.

Slide the zip tool under the butt edge. How to prepare your home. Get professional looking watertight results with these residing techniques.