How do you replace repair vinyl siding?

Answer 1

Vinyl siding is easily replaced if the contractor has left you some siding. In most cases if the contractor hasn't left you any siding, the siding may be very hard to obtain. Most companies discontinue the siding so you have to replace the whole house this is how they make there money. If you have a couple extra pieces of siding, there is a tool commonly known as the zip tool. It usually has a p shape on the end of it, you slip it under the bottom of the lock of the siding and slide it across this should unlock the vinyl. What you want to do after that is pop out the nails with a flat bar, this should free the peice of vinyl from the house. When you are re-installing the siding make sure you grab the right size roofing nails to re-sucure it.

Answer 2

It depends on if you're trying to replace ALL the hardboard siding or just the part that rotted out. I recommend replacing it all if you can afford it; you rent a dumpster, pry off all the siding, throw it away and install something like Hardiplank in its place. If you're trying to replace just the bottom few boards, normally Masonite siding was face-nailed--you drove nails into the laps so they went through two courses of siding. What you'll need to do here is find the nails, pull them out, and slide the bad siding out then slide good siding in. I recommend using fiber cement siding to replace even single pieces of hardboard siding. The molds they use to make it were developed to look like the molds used to make hardboard siding, so repairs are hard to spot if you can spot them at all, and it's far more durable.

Answer 3

No