How to Install Vinyl Siding from A to Z

so in this video we're going to show you how to install vinyl siding but not just that we're going to show you how to go from a nasty beast like this to something that's beautiful so if you're like me and you're fixing up an old house vinyl siding is really kind of a labor of love step number one you've got to remove everything right back to the original skin of the house that means whether it's OSB or original wood siding that's where you start especially with older homes people love to put layer on layer a layer on the outside of a house but it really has very little value why build your house all the way out here when the colds coming in from way down here so we want to take it all the way back so that we can guarantee the integrity of our water diversion system which is what siding is a part of is not the total answer so if you're gonna go do a siding job don't just stick it on whatever's there peel it all back get rid of the garbage start fresh that way you can be sure that you're going to be able to control the air and the moisture and the rodents and have a successful finish so in our plan we're gonna remove this door because we added another door around the corner this is the windy side of the house and so by changing the entrance to the other side you know save a lot of money on heating costs so just so you know we're gonna have to frame this up close it up and extend the skin make a nice and flush this old window here we have to remove all of this frame as well and then reframe it inside the existing wall so we can finish off with our skin flush with the original wood it'll take a little extra work but it's gonna be so worth it oh yeah okay that's good for the soul so what I'm doing here is I'm taking the material that I'm using to sheath over the hole and added it to my my lumber for my backing so now that I've screwed it on I can just move this around until this is nice and flush with the surface that I'm gonna be putting my house wrap over and then I can screw it in and this is a process you can use so now I can come back when I'm all done framing this hole it and I can attach my sheathing right to this board knowing it's gonna be perfectly flush with the rest of the villa that's money in the bank so you might be asking yourself why are you doing all of this on a video how to do vinyl siding well the reality is there's a lot of people in a lot of different kind of homes so if we start from the beginning on the worst possible scenario then everybody has the answer to their questions so one of the benefits or should I say drawbacks have bloon frame construction is every time somebody takes the window from here and covers it up puts the window and over there and then covers it up puts another window over here they keep cutting through the vertical supports of the house so from here all the way over I'll be supports have been cut through and replaced with just a little bits of pieces of framing now this wall is actually starting to blow outwards so that's a really good thing for me so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go back to the inside get some 6-inch structural screws go right through the side of my staircase pull it all back tight together glad I found this one I did at least I can fix it so when you're dealing with a situation like this you're looking for two things one you want to create a surface a nailing surface for your new skin on the building to go flush the second is you want to have some structure in the wall so that you can instantly properly so as you can see we're gonna just put a couple of horizontal pieces in here that we can put a bat of insulation and each one of those little segments that'll hold it all together while we put the skin on it's easier for us to go horizontal here because there's actually wood in the wall for us to attach to the top and the bottom don't have a lot of integrity left all right so now we've got the well framed up and batt insulation I've also used a little bit of spray foam in all the corners and the little weird spots just to make sure I got a good seal so we're gonna finish tearing all this out remove the door and then it'll be time for step two which is the reframe and then the skin all of the holes now I got a quick question for you we're gonna be going back with a vinyl siding there's a lot of products on the market now you can go with a cement fiber board with a good vinyl you can also go with wood siding it's a board and batten look so I'm just wanting to know put in the comment section below what you think would be your favorite on an old house like this and why let's have that conversation because I think it'll be really good for a lot of people to hear about the differences we just got a little bit of cleaning up the corner to do and we're gonna remove the door so really that should be as simple as just taking out the hinges don't get all dramatic with a sledgehammer I start at the bottom work the way to the top the last screw will hold the door will swing the weight will sit on that corner on the floor nice and simple okay so in a lot of cases if you're changing out a door or you're removing one it's still in good enough shape that it gives you a little fight so what we usually do is take the reciprocate err the sawzall and we just cut through a jamb that gives you and then you just fold it open it's real easy to remove in this case this has been here weathering for long enough it all rotted out of the bottom so there's nothing here to fight back we're just gonna pry it off there we go not sure why they needed two different screws but well the rains coming looks like I got about 20 minutes so forgive me if I lose the tutorial just work like the wind even you're in a hurry you got to make sure it's right here we go so the goal here is to get this closed up before the rain on the rise and comes the secret to this is really just get the sheathing on we want to intentionally measure this a little bit shy for the perimeter with some expansion from trim it off as we're putting on the Tyvek wrap and then we should be okay hi one of the suggestions I'm gonna make if you're a DIY er bite off as much as you can - for a day I would say that's 16 or 18 feet by 10 feet high has a good goal if you're opening up an old Pig like this if this was a newer house feel free to take the whole wall you can do a rien rayon in one day pretty much the whole surface up to 200 square feet one of the easiest ways to measure and Mark use a drywall t-square with a black marker this will enable you to draw a nice straight line really quickly much faster than using a chalk line make this sure to set the depth have your blade relative to the material you're cutting and you can cut on the ground if you put it two by four down first just stay on the short side to hold the cut off in the air [Music] [Music] whoo-hoo grandma's done so what we're doing now is adding a bead of expansion foam because old houses new wood sheathing nothing's gonna close up nice and you want a nice air barrier so this is a great time to guarantee that an expansion foam will fill all those gaps so this is just for good measure not something you do in a new house but when you're old and new like this combined man is just nice to put that extra five minutes into the project make sure that everything is sealed up nice and tight cool thing about this gun is the kids a twist on top how they look the same size is the single use they actually holds five times as much material great value for your buck so if you're doing a lot of renovating get one of these guns are about $40 and they will pay off in all kinds of ways there we go sometimes the most important parts of the house are ones you don't see don't be afraid to get on your hands and knees and really make sure things are sealed up right okay here we go now we have a great opportunity take a few minutes pull the rest of the nails out of the siding it's original well that sets up and then we'll come back with a knife trim it off and we're ready to type our step number three is to weatherproof the building not waterproof this is really interesting because there's a lot of conflicting information out there and people using the wrong terms when you're putting a Tyvek or a type R or exterior barrier on the house most cases it's a perforated kind of plastic paper the goal of this paper is not to waterproof your exterior of the house like a membrane you'd roll on in the shower this goal is to weatherproof now it goes behind the physical barrier of the rain the sleet the hail which would be your siding and what it is it's designed temporarily during construction to keep the structure dry but it's designed long-term to keep the wind driving rains from penetrating through the paper into the house building now the bottom line is it's not a waterproofing barrier it's part of the water diversion system hell even the roof isn't a waterproofing system it's a water diversion system if you live in the north you'd know you get ice buildup that icicles crawling up underneath behind the shingles it will penetrate the roof when it thaws it's not waterproof it's only designed to shed water off the building if it continues to travel in the right direction same thing with this material if the wind drives the rain up and behind the siding somehow that will help it to be deflected down the wall and then out at the bottom so when you're hearing and you're thinking about waterproofing versus water deflection which is water diversion systems the reality is this we're gonna try to waterproof the house we're trying to weatherproof the house if the structure behind all of this system gets a little damp on occasion due to extreme weather that's okay it will dissipate and dry out and everything will be fine I'm liking this right here if you want to really see this really stretch that out I like four or five beautiful you will see in other words okay that's good I'm liking that okay all right very good one second just be careful you're not hitting the wall too hard with the machine you don't want to break the paper you just want to embed a staple all right now on the paper itself for these little red squares generally that's a guide to help people understand how many staples should be on the wall so it's every couple of feet they wanted every eight inches if you're like most people in the world you'll end up putting a lot more than that in your typebar and it's an OCD kind of situation I want to go about six inches past the corner yeah depending on the environment that you're working in first of all there is nothing wrong with having overlap on this kind of material this is not a vapor barrier all right this does not stop moisture vapor from passing through so if you overlap it's not going to cause you problems but we wanted to have it a little bit extra to come around the corner just so that when we do the other side we have a nice easy seal we're not relying on the tape at the corner to tazza do our seal for us we're just setting this up so when the rains come tonight we're gonna have some water shouting ability so anybody who's a fan of the channel and saw our little video about the mice control you've seen the exterior this house here's another example of a whole player friendly neighborhood critters what we have to do is create a water diversion system on this old Pig so we're gonna skin the entire wall new OSB we're just adding a little bit of back framing okay covering it all with the type r or Tyvek anyhow wrap we'll do some is better than the others I'm not going to get into the debate the point is these systems are all the same they keep the water from getting in behind and they shut it down all right if they allow moisture or air vapor to pass through it so it's an awesome technology we're going to cover all this up gonna tape your joints we're gonna get down to here now in this corner I've got two different foundations over here I've got a stack stone and the house is actually built right on top of it and extends just a little bit past the stone over here I've got a two foot wide stone foundation it's basically two walls of stack stone set up against each other and so this one we have to create a water diversion system that gets in behind the Tyvek with metal bent some metal out and over and around and we also want to seal all this up with our expansion foam now this is important we talked earlier about these are all the houses the stone wall is not actually attached to the rest of the construction it's balloon frame everything is sitting on the floor joist and it's acts independently in a lot of cases so when you get to here you want to use a little bit of this foam all across the joint and you want to make sure that your OSB doesn't come in contact with your stone because you don't want it to wick up the water and right here max there's a huge gap here we want to be sure to fill that gap with the expansion foam especially tight there now I'm gonna foam the rest of this and then we'll show you the next part of the diversion system which is our flashing now we've got our metal that we have bent though we're gonna just set this in position right into the phone okay now Matt what we're looking at is this point right here mm-hmm that we want to have down and then just throw some surface nails am i pushing right down into the corner generally speaking yes and we got our pikas here right shall leave it doesn't need to be too hard no one's gonna be standing on it but that's fine so the idea here is you want to measure out all three of these sides take those dimensions draw a picture of the piece of metal you need bent and you should be able to find a local supplier in your neighborhood in Ottawa we have the vinyl aluminum warehouse on Merivale Road and you can take it in there and tell them how many feet what color metal and they'll Bend it for you in just a couple hours so you can head out in the morning give them your dimensions pay for your supplies so if you need custom-built metal and you don't have a bender and you don't want to rent the machine that is definitely an option it's affordable considering how convenient is this is really starting to look bad so my favorite system for putting in a nail is to hold the nail in between your fingers right not not with your fingers this way in between your fingers put the nail where you need it put your fingers up against the board and that'll keep the tip still and then you can give it a good back and then if you drive too hard you're hitting the soft tissue of your hand that isn't gonna get bruised and dented or injured all right that way you can give it a good shot you can penetrate the steel you're not hitting it hard enough oh so here we got it we can show you another trick when you're sitting down like that you've got to hold the nail on an angle so just about a five degree okay not bad for a guy who only does this once every five years oh I mean I guess when you were my age you guys didn't have air nailers I know we all had to know how to use skills no no no wait you need an angle here there's my angle there's your angle not hit the damn thing there you go now you are a freakin nailing machine loving it so now that we have that in place the divergence system will work like this no on this side we're gonna fold this over trim back a little bit of this tape it to the middle I like to have a nice seal right to my Waterproof system which is the aluminum over here we're doing a little different we're gonna install our starter strip okay the same height as the other side and we'll have our paper extending past it and then afterwards we're gonna cut our cement board underneath the paper install it up against the wood and that'll give us our vinyl siding will finish looking something like this okay overtop of the cement board and then we're gonna be able to come along later and parge this and integrate that parting right into the stone all around the house a lot of work but getting an old 1880s house to look like a new house it takes a lot of work all right so let's get this down here first and then we can get on with getting our starter strip installed here we go now we're using duct tape make sure that everything is nice and tight here tape it to the back of the wall so that when you're finished you aren't going to see it all right important to integrate one side to the next if you don't have anything that'll do that then just use a little bit of tape it's funny because you'll always have damage cause you're building where your weak spot is so if you've got a weak spot in your type-r or your tie back make sure you fix it so now it's time to install your vinyl now we've got our water diversion system set up we have to now figure out where we're gonna start in most cases homes are already built pretty level yes so if you're putting vinyl on a newer build you won't have a problem on an old house like this though everything is sunk and moved around over time so you need to establish where the most critical point is that you need to have the the finished product established that's generally the front door okay so where your front door is which is right here is where you'd want to establish your full pieces okay so that when your siding is installed it looks very intentional everything from this point under is going to be cement board and purging so that is a natural transition and that is why we want to have this hanging down just a little bit past the cement board in this case the cement board comes up to here and that is going to work perfectly okay so we have a product called Jay trim and this is like the workhorse of a vinyl siding system this can go on the sides across the top underneath things wrap your windows your doors you can put up against your soffit so that your your siding can finish up inside of it and it'll hold everything together it's a decorative detail trim that does all of the work on any of your vertical or horizontal surfaces so the way you install your your Jay trim and I'm going to give you a little secret here because this can be really quite tricky it has to be nailed and these daily plans has come already spaced out and you don't need a nail in every one of these gaps okay it's just on a cutting wheel at the factory usually you'll find that every 12 to 16 inches is more than enough and because these things all expand and contract you want to have your nail sort of in the middle okay so get your nail going now in order to drive that nail deep if you're good with a hammer you can just line up and whack it but if you're not you're gonna hit the vinyl and you're gonna break your trim that's expensive so if you set up your hammer put your buddy or hammer on the wall and you hold them on the wall and give it a swing you'll be able to knock it in without damaging your trip here we go put it up pack it off give it a good shot nice and simple that is a great way for a one who's not comfortable with a hammer to be able to install this trim of course if you are comfortable with it just give it a couple of shots you're okay now this gap this left here we're gonna use a polyurethane caulking to seal this up it'll bond the brick mold to the siding trim and it'll guarantee that whether it's probably five to ten years depending on the Sun can in the heat conditions okay so the other two major trim pieces that you're gonna need on a job is an inside corner for such situations like this right so make sure you have your hoe strap going all the way around and you can install that one and nail it in the corner as well and then you have the outside corner same thing as a nailing flange on each side and that will sit on the outside corner and it has a really nice deep groove here to receive the siding okay so all of these components should be installed up before you can do it you've got to level off your starting strip especially in rolled house okay just kind of like tiling you want to map everything out first and make sure you got a good solid plan putting this in position and nailing it all in and not knowing where your starting strip is it can be a real hazard because if it's too low it looks stupid you want to cut it off it's hard to do that nice if it's too high then you're gonna look really stupid because you're gonna have a huge gap missing at the corner so let's get the laser level out and we were gonna mark off our laser line first so that we can install our starter strip and know exactly where all these components go what I've done is I've set up my laser level but the nice horizontal line and this is my starting strip and the idea here is this gets nailed to the wall this flange piece sticks out and you're siding your first piece gets clipped onto there and then you nail that in and all this piece does is it establishes a nice level line okay so this will go in here to the top of my mark and I can install this strip it goes inside my trims and then when the side and goes on clip good to go so if you take out a laser line and you make your mark on your wall quick little line like this where your marks are then you can easily nail these in place you do this all around the property and well just reposition this over and over and over again and continue this line right to the outside corner and then we'll have everything mapped out and we'll be ready to roll so my starting strip is actually gonna be lower than the inside corner so my inside corner if I wanted to make a look really pretty I want to make a little modification to it okay so here's my inside corner and I've got two different diversion systems meeting up in that corner I don't have a metal flange coming out overlap that I can so I my inside corner is actually the weak spot in the house so if you can think about it the siding system takes the initial part of the rainstorm collects it it can travel to the side this corner actually keeps all that water from going behind and sends a straight down right to my weak spot this is my challenge so what I want to do is actually take some Jay trim and combine it with the inside corner to create a diversion so it has a place to run it so what I'm going to do is I'm going to modify this for the angle I'm just going to be a little strange I don't even know how to explain all this but I want this part to go in behind inside the trim here inside my trip edge okay I want this part to go in behind the corner and I want to create a system here all right now I can just throw a little bit of this on here and I can make my outside corner nice and secure okay we're good so I'll just demonstrate it here before I stick it on so now my inside corner is going to go in behind it and up inside of it okay into the corner so now any water that comes down the inside trough will head into this which is we've got an angle following my detail and then be able to run away from building bit of a pan but but it's gonna work really nice so let's measure this off now cuz I'm going from the other side corner I don't want this detail any longer than it needs to be we'll match that angle by the way if you're gonna work with this kind of stuff you need a good pair of wife snips there's a few different models out there I like these because they keep my hands away from it they're very good from metal too alright now we've got our system whoo all this left for me to do now is to nail this bad boy in place okay Maddie you're up I'm gonna hold on my system together while you nail that okay now anywhere up here is fine thank you we're good so now we're gonna just finish an alien both sides of this trim we have our level line we got our corner we've got our starting strip that's making positive contact in the corner you want to make sure you leave lots of room for your siding to install without any difficulty should I be tossing one through this hole to catch both pieces here no no not necessary just every 16 inches there's gonna be a very medium pressure put on this as we're tugging it all together so we want to have a nice and tight so we're using a Gentek siding here and we're in Canada they have a parent company down the state's they make the same product and available distribution down there we'll put all of those details in the description down below the products and the corners and all that kind of stuff so this is awesome this caller is meadow fern it's relatively new on the market so this is really nice because it has one of those modern colors and in conjunction with the commercial brown trim doors windows and soffit I'm gonna end up with a more modern looking house hopefully it won't look like it's 140 50 years old anymore no when you're cutting this stuff to measure the goal is actually boom done the goal in the summertime when you're cutting is to cut it pretty much from the full interior to the fall interior okay now vinyl siding has this really awesome ability to expand and contract a lot so in the wintertime it's going to shrink probably over 12 feet between half and 1 inch I know it seems like a lot so if we use the half-inch rule as the rule and we put our nail in there siding there's two things need to know one in the summertime install snug if you're doing this in the spring or the fall leave a little bit of gap okay you're going a quarter inch on each side because it is gonna get hot and it'll expand if you're installing this in the winter just stop and wait until next spring it's just too difficult to work with put your nail in the middle of these gaps what I'm about to show you here is the most important rule when you're installing siding and nobody ever does it which is why every time you drive down the road you look at a new house construction you see an absolute mess of warped walls you put your nail in the middle and you don't attach it to Snug okay leave the ability for that siding to maneuver if you hammer that all the way flat do an example here of how not to do it okay how not to do it 101 you put it on an edge and you hammer it in nice and tight then you go down here and you put another one in and all right what you got here is a nail on one side of the gap and I know on the other side of the gap they're both pinched tight this sighting can't move in the summertime the only thing I can do is buckle in between the nails all right that's not how you want to put this stuff in the extreme hit whether you want your siding to be able to slide across the nail here I'll use this again cuz that one's been there pretty good cuz it's hot today you want to install your siding in the middle of all your gaps so they can move around so as its expanding and contracting it can slide on the nails okay and sit freely without all the buckling if you've install it this way it's not coming off the wall alright it's not going anywhere it's just as secure as if you hammer it all the way I think I find that sweet spot where I can still slide okay that's the trick every nail goes in the middle of a gap and you don't hammer it all the way in then this has the ability to expand and contract without buckling on the wall and you're gonna be really happy with your result so for everybody who bought a house and is disappointed with the way their siding is performing go out and buy yourself a siding removing tool and it's a little red hook goes underneath lift it up and check to see or your nails all pinned in nice and tight are they stuck in the corner so that the siding can't move around and if that's causing your buckling that's an improper installation and the guys who installed it are gonna be bound by warranty to come and fix it now we want to put in a nail every 16 inches so if you're doing a house like we did it around the front and we add strapping put your strapping every 16 inches very important this is evenly spaced if you don't want to have a measuring tape out and waste your time with all that just count out ten spaces and throw in a nail okay it'd be nice leave it I get this goes on relatively quick boom time for the next piece so one of the most important aspects of the sighting is the way that the nailing strip and the sighting itself have got to this detailed notch it's on both ends of every piece when you're measuring to do your cuts always measure from the detail okay over to where you met your gap is so these most measuring tapes will fit inside of the J trim and you a measure right of the way all the way over there which is twenty six and a quarter to this detail and then when you're measuring your piece of siding measure from the detail twenty six in the corner all right now if you want to be just kind to yourself you can take an eighth of an inch off guaranteed that everything's gonna fit without any issues that is very cool okay so for cutting vinyl siding the best system that I've ever come across is just get a twelve inch square this is wider than minutes period so you can take that little notch that you made and you can just throw a quick line on your siding okay now you know where your cut line is and of course your angle grinder and we've tried chop saws sliding saws different kinds of snips nothing beats [Music] and and yeah I didn't use safety glasses because there's nothing flying around the grinders more melting the plastic not cutting it it's quite interesting so now you can see that when I cut this I have this awesome overlap okay I have an inch and a half on this side and an inch and a half on the backside that's my waterproofing layer all right now the only question you have left is do I install left to right or right to left because it goes either way and that's up to you okay generally speaking you want to take a look at your wind pattern in your rain pattern if the wind is always driving from this direction then install from right to left so that your overlap is the other direction okay make sense really it comes up to you have the option so you can set it up for the wind from the backside or from the front side it's your call but if you have a three inch gap overlap like this generally speaking you're gonna be fine this is one of the reasons why we have a water diversion system behind siding siding stops 90 percent of the water but when the winds blowing it's gonna get in behind it that's why you need this functioning that's why your details and how it ties together with all your deflection system is so important do not cut corners on there just because no one's gonna see it this works great this will keep your house from rotting okay now what we got here is we just got to cut the rest of this all the way up to the top of the door and we have nothing new to show you for the next few minutes [Music] so one of the other benefits of leaving your nail raised a little bit so if you make a mistake you can pull your siding off with relative ease mom was embarrassed to say it yeah the bottom here never clipped see there that was snapped in ah whew glad I caught that now fixing that later I would have been a real pain so I always put your finger underneath the edge so busy teaching I forget some of the simple stuff sometimes right lift lift while you nail just a little bit upwards pressure make sure that everything is nice and snug okay back to the time [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so we figured we just take a quick minute out to discuss these installation blocks they are awesome that when their clothes are the same thickness of the finished siding and they just have a little compression locking system on them and then there's a front face that comes off okay so you save this for later but the idea here is you can take these blocks for installing around dryer exhausts hose bibbs lighting fixtures anything you can imagine really I mean there's a lot of options in the different sizes you can get but generally you can't buy these in a variety of colors at your local building store you've got to go to a specialty store to get them so make sure you pop by a siding supplier and you can get whatever you need now I ordered these in advance and I ordered them black and it might look like an odd choice but I also have because I'd like to always buy things before I start I have my light fixture and I noticed that when I bought my light fixture the back here the mounting plate was not just a little round it is a massive detailed shape and I needed a large rectangle so that when I mounted it on there you can see that that's gonna look rather sexy okay so the secret here is Matt you're Matt box right yeah in the middle okay and I have lots of position to do that so then I'm gonna take this here and I'm going to rough to me where that is I'm gonna trace that when I line a little bit with my pencil hey there we go that's all I need to know time to cut the hole with the grinder now the idea here is this rectangle is much bigger than I need I only need to expose the pan box so what I want to have is I want a nice rigid overlap this is a stronger product than deciding itself so this is why it's a mounting block I can attach a fixture to this screw it to my mounting plate attached to the wall and put all the compression strength I want on the surface of this as long as I don't cut the hole too big it's just like cutting tile right we're all done hoorah when I go when I stick my plate over top of that and I mount it to the wall you'll see nothing is showing I can even finish off there with a little bit of a black polyurethane cocking make sure everything to be perfect now we chose that light actually because we did a poll and we asked everybody if it thought rustic or modern so we got a bit of both it's a bit of a antique so we're going with LED lighting and has a really cool um blown air bubble in the glass feature so to give us some really cool light if you remember back way back to the beginning I did a video on installing these light fixtures freeing the power out here we have got both of these boxes leveled off and so if I install the siding level and I install the box's level and they stall these level all in the same line we should have a pretty sexy looking exterior over the house here okay so what I want is right right there and for good measure let's the older I get the less I trust my eyes yeah good reason to look at that I was way up okay there we go so a couple more in for good measure and we're good now the light fixture itself is going to be attached to the box okay with longer screws we're gonna pick up some 832 s we're going to screw it to the box itself but if there's mounting boxes attached securely to the wall then your fixtures attach securely to the box which is attached to the wall and then you it it's not gonna fall apart and crack and leak on you and everything will last for bazillion years done let's go cut the siding for this piece and then we can put the trim on [Music] okay so here's the trick max want to know if there was a trick for this and there is lay it in front and you just seen your line here and you're gonna just right where the middle is and you're gonna draw this Wow a little bit wider than the box that's the box there I'm going to add an extra edge to it okay the finished trim the finished trim has a detail on the inside and this piece right here should get pushed all the way in past the siding to the box itself okay so if you cut it too tight you're gonna restrict this and just gonna sit proud so make sure you cut just a little bit wider trusts the three-quarter inch trim here to cover the gap to make it look pretty and then start over here okay and you can double check your measurements down here like this eyeball it it's just like doing tile right snap that in we've got these details in the in the in the profile here so I'm going about a half an inch below that that Ridge okay so that's my cut line here and I'm going about set my finger here with my pencil and I'm gonna scribe over boom that's where I'm gonna cut when you're measuring something like this if you're not comfortable with it you can always use a measuring tape alright and it's always better to cut it a little bit smaller than you want that way you can make minor adjustments after the fact no problem so I made my marks with a pencil I'm gonna cut inside the pencil and purpose just so I have flexibility [Music] now I'm gonna go back there with my marker and we'll double check there we go that's awesome life's actually behind the trim this time and this is permanent marker so be careful all right so I'm not high enough so my side here is good and I can meet the middle of good I just want to come there there we go heard a lot of people over the years say measure twice and cut once truth is when you're on a job and you don't have a comfort factor or you're doing something for the first time cut twice cut small the first time confirm exactly what you're doing and then cut it right the second time [Music] [Applause] so before you nail this in what's your finish come on confirm everything is good oh yeah that is sexy loving it we're just going to discuss here because the tops of doors and windows are probably the most important part of any of these installations you've got a couple of options here one remember we've got a house wrap on here this is a nice little membrane all around the whole interior of the doorframe in behind the the brick molding we've got expansion foam that's sealed up everything if water gets in behind here okay it's gonna have access to the wood jam unpainted the door jamb unpainted and that's not a good thing so we don't want to continue building with this idea that well if water gets behind it no big deal because we've got this we've got all these layers are to complement each other they're not individual systems so we have our pipe are coming over top of this alright and we have a couple of options one of the traditional options is the put on a piece of metal trim okay and the idea would be to have this metal trim come down just like we did on the concrete on the on the foundation comes down over the top and then a little bit of an overhang no if you do that you want to bring that all the way out to the outside of your Jay trim or you've created a weak spot on both sides the water will run left them right and have the same problem all over again the question is what's a good system for diverting water and the answer is to seal it the hell up okay I'm going to show you how to use this regular Jay trim here now to seal this up and create a perfect water diversion alright a perfect water diversion that is going to leave your door completely dry now step one and I don't know if anybody in the world agrees with my idea here but I've been doing this for a long time and I absolutely love it here's I cut my paper about a quarter inch to half an inch above my joint here Oh having a sharp knife would be very beneficial yeah for anyone who thinks that's just paper forget it that's that's seriously woven plastic or nylon I don't know what it is but that stuff works secondly grab your jade trim measure from the outside corner to the outside corner mark it and then cut it now here's the secret if you snip three quarters of an inch off the bottom on both sides and then you bend them down you create a perfect catch for the other trim there we go there we go okay now we're going to nail that on to the wall [Music] [Applause] lay the paper inside let's just think about water yeah it's windy it gets in behind the siding and running down this paper okay and then it hits that trough it has to go left or right it'll go over behind this and all the way down all we have to do to help make sure everything goes where it's supposed to go is get our duct tape in behind here right to that corner and tape that on the 45 oh my got torn paper there we should fix that while we're at it now this is the kind of stuff that you're not gonna see on a jobsite nobody's taking this kind of attention to detail the truth is most homes if they have a few weak spots are gonna survive just fine without being this concerned about issues like this but when you're working on your own house and you've got the luxury to be a little picky I say take the extra minute because having issues like this dealt with is the difference between ants nesting in your wall because you've got a wet spot and they've decided to make a home there right I mean your help isn't gonna fall down but if you can help to avoid having problems of ants that's worth the wait the investment of therein alone no believe this or not I'm gonna just take a little bit of tape on the inside and tape that round joint together and close my gap so here's how you measure this okay get it all the way to the left take your pencil mark right here half inch to 3/4 in so now we're taking where we know our joint is I'm gonna just trans like this information here okay so we're gonna be cutting up piece of chicken and now we're going to measure from the bottom of this to the bottom of this and then add an eighth of an inch and here's why this sits underneath this you got to include the material thickness okay so we're actually a three and an eighth here so we're gonna cut it three and a quarter we're gonna turn this around measure up and cut at three and a quarter that's here put that line there and I'm gonna do the same on the other side in case it's a little bit different it might be a hair different yeah that one's three and a half not a big surprise and because we've got three quarters of an inch here of mercy we always add a little bit more when we're cutting just to make room for things to go nice and snug I'll go back to the table look at that Oh for the record two sawhorses a couple of two by fours and a half a sheet of OSB makes a perfect work table for this so don't be afraid to invest in some materials you don't want to be doing this all day long sitting squatting on the ground here we go that was taller too shorter so we're gonna scribe I'm gonna start like this and I'm just gonna slowly close my gap and that takes a little bit of experience but hey I've gotta be able to do something once in a while they make people go [Music] I think the pizza's here which is why I can't find my son must be lunchtime all right now you're gonna find that if you start on top that's all good that's all good we're gonna slowly slide it down okay I put you into control and then you can push it lower than you need it get it underneath your edge all right this way nothing is gonna fall and break and bend in half because it's all in in the track system okay make sure that we snap it all in place so we're just gonna recap real quick we showed you how to go around doors windows are exactly the same the only difference is do all four sides okay and the truth is you can extend a little bit past the bottom on a window and you can cut your Jay trim on a 45 degree angle just to give it another overlap there sometimes it looks bad but usually on windows that's a good look outside corners inside corners how to measure always measure we're going left to right from your detail not from your trim or not from the edge that will help make sure that everything gets fit with an overlap and then when you get to the top you're gonna need more Jay trim same material put it all across your soffit okay the last piece of siding most likely is not going to fit in perfectly just like this all right you're gonna have to cut it at some point so the detail you can see is wide and then narrow if you go to the end it's narrow if you cut it in the middle it's gonna be thin and it's gonna slap around a little bit all right so what you do is if you're gonna cut it cut your detail off all right and then nail this upside down I guess your Jay trim so I'm just gonna pretend I've got this is my ceiling height and I'm gonna install this real quick just to show you a little trick unfortunately for us we have weather moving in so we don't have enough time to finish the whole project so I'm going to show you how we do it so if your dream is finishing it your ceiling like this it's fine that's not too bad if it's finishing like this there's a lot of movement you run the risk of this actually popping out in the bad windstorm so what you can do is because in order to have this cut you've got to cut this piece off right take the cutoff piece invert it and then nail this in the wall then when you snap this in okay it's not gonna be wiggling around coz you've now filled that gap with material piece of cake it's the offcut just stick it in behind and then you're gonna be nice and solid it'll look great it'll have a nice contact versus that huge shadow right nobody wants the shadow so if you do have to cut it and you're installing it on the thin side take this off invert it just run it with the grinder invert it nail it up how sexy is that all right now listen if you're doing these kind of DIY projects at home and you're feeling confident because of the videos are helping you and you're not exactly sure if you're gonna be able to tackle it yes you can all right and if you need extra help then just hit the join button become a member you're gonna get access to call me on the phone we can do consultation i'll give you an e-mail or you can send us pictures we're here to help you out okay and if you want to get more videos like this and hit the subscribe button don't forget to give us a thumbs up alright YouTube needs to know that you guys like watching this kind of stuff and they'll promote it to a bigger audience and we'll be able to help more people we really appreciate it and if you want to see some of the other projects we've been doing on this 1880s house then just click the link right here we got a playlist put together of some of our favorite aspects of this 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Channel: Home RenoVision DIY

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Length: 56min 59sec (3419 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 05 2019