How To Attache Hook To The Siding

Slide the bottom of the siding into the footer being sure to leave enough space to allow for expansion.

How to attache hook to the siding.

Then hang your decorations on the bottom of the hook. For siding that has two sections called ship lap there is a rib running horizontally in the middle of the piece. Gap between the end of the ledger and the ends of siding and fill it with high quality exterior caulk to keep water from leaking behind the ends of the ledger. The screw tends to wobble a great deal until it penetrates the thickened section.

A third alternative is to hang a light item from a suction cup attached to the siding but this only works if the siding is smooth and untextured. Add your starter sheet of siding. This hooks it onto the bottom of the siding. Siding is intended to hang from the nails not to be nailed flat.

Anchor deck joists to the ledger with joist hangers filling each hole with galvanized joist hanger nails rated for pressure treated wood. When you re ready to hang things on your vinyl siding push the curved part of the hook between the siding panels. Slip the top of the hook underneath a piece of siding and wiggle it until it snaps into place. Slide the end.

Attach the siding to the wall with a nail in each section of the nail strip.