How To Trim Vinyl Siding

Maneuvering long pieces of vinyl into place can be tricky.

How to trim vinyl siding.

You might need to wiggle the tool to work it into the. Lie a strip of vinyl siding on a flat work table. Not just another vinyl siding installation video. Miter or cut tabs at the ends.

Put on safety goggles. Along the tops install j channel trim with horizontal siding and base trim with vertical siding. Slip the curved end of a vinyl siding zip tool into the seam between two horizontally interlocking runs of siding that you need to remove. This is our most comprehensive.

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. Cut the trim so it is two channel widths longer than the opening s width. Measure from the locking tab of the siding below to the undersill trim to determine the depth of the notch. This video shows how to properly trim around fixtures when installing vinyl siding.

We cover how to move doors and windows and create a weather proof exterior. For the smoothest cuts put the blade in backward. Soffit and fascia starting with. Push one end of longer pieces into the trim then bow the siding slightly and guide the other end into the trim.

Install j channels at doors and windows and under roof eaves and rakes.