How To Install Vinyl Siding On A Shed

[Music] hey guys double wide six and today we're going to be working on vinyl siding so this siding I'm using is made by mastic and it's called Newport Bay it's a nice blue color and you'll notice I'm using white corners with it and light j-channel and a white soffit and facia so if you're building a shed and you're creating your own blueprint for what you're doing one of the things that you want to think about as you're making a plans is what type of siding do you want to use okay there's shakes there's Dutch laughs there's all kinds of different siding with different lengths and Heights so this is eight-inch siding it's actually a Dutch lap and I've calculated and figured out how I would get pretty much a whole sheet I just cut like a quarter inch off the top of it and boom it fits right in so that's something that you can think about when you're calculating how to do a shed like this now the corners a lot of people make them the exact same color as the building which is fine however I wanted to accent the corners a little bit so I went with light and up here is an aluminum fascia and a soffit and you'll notice I also have a light J channel up here that you know blends in with the building as well so that's all I did it so just some things to think about now I will show you how to get started with this just a tip to help you protect your building you can wrap your building with house wrap or you can wrap it with tar paper down at the bottom and what that will do is if you don't have gutters that will help prevent splash back from rotting out your plywood I'm on a concrete slab and there's also stone all around this shed so I have really good drainage and I'm not too worried about the splashback so I'm actually going to skip that step and what that does for me is that allows me to easily see where my studs are so when I nail my vinyl siding I can nail into the studs which I like to do for strength and where I live it's pretty windy one of the things to look at is around your windows you're going to need to put j-channel if your windows don't come with it nowadays a lot of vinyl windows have their already made with the vinyl so that the vinyl siding can actually slide right in here and you don't need to cut the J channel you can use your J channel for inside corners in this manner and also as you go up top that's kind of how you finish off your vinyl siding with J channel when I bought the windows for the shed I made sure to get Windows that already had the built in J channel it's less to buy as far as when you're buying your vinyl siding and it's it's one less step that you don't have to trim around all your J channels around each window so I'd recommend here's a piece of jade channel a little bit dirty it rained here last night and this window this is what I'm talking about has the built in J channel so your final slide right in there and we're also going to use J channel to help hold up the soffit so see how there was a gap there once this gets leveled and pushed up there it looks real nice and neat and then your siding will get cut and fit right in the top there on the outside of the door we're going to put J channel there so the presiding can come up to that brick mold and at the top of the door hopefully you don't notice this but I calculated this was two inches across and then up top I think I ended up cutting this at like one and five-eighths so that it would be flush and even with the soffit top of the door so I don't need any j-channel up there the first thing I like to do is set my corners and I usually run them an inch longer than they need to be so they'll stick down just a hair below the blue vinyl siding as you can see there now you can cut these just by hand if you're going to cut them by hand I recommend aviation snips they work pretty well the corner has a lot of different bends to it so it is a bit of a pain to cut so I'm going to be cutting this with the compound miter saw and one thing I want to mention is you know the vinyl has a tendency to chip so you want to cut very slow you want to use a blade that has a lot of teeth on it like a fine finish blade with carbide and you also want to make sure that you put the side that you cut on the bottom of the building you don't want up top a rough cut so we'll keep that down towards the bottom and you know some guys cut with their blades backwards I've really seen no advantage in doing that I've done that and you know I I just find keeping the blade and cutting slow just the way it is works fine for me [Applause] [Music] before you go and just attach your vinyl siding you want to take a level and get it perfectly leveled so you can set your bubble and then when you're ready to attach it you're going to take your nail and you're going to nail it in once you have your corner all nice and plumb you're going to set the nail now the nail head should be a little bit proud of the siding so that the siding can expand and contract okay run a j-channel down the door which was easy because this is already plumb and then for the top it's always better in construction almost any measuring task if you can set your trim in place now this is a vajay - I'm just putting it up in place and then mark it here that way you have a perfect cut and it's better than measuring with the tape measure over your head it's going to be a lot more accurate okay we're working on the top J channel I sent a nail up here just to hold it and if you want good results you got to use a level now I purposely did not nail the soffit because I want the J channel to hold it up also nails in this aluminum lined up giving you wrinkles when the aluminum stands they can try so you want to use the least nails Tommy and if you're looking for good results you're going to want to take your turn and use a lovely and right here that looks perfect so I'm going to mark that and and then I'll use my level again down at the left side just to make sure it's perfect it's these little details that just make the job work out nice and true I not tuck you on so there's a stud right here I remember you don't want to set those nails I leave a little like a little lesson in that should be good I'll put my level on it and nail it the rest of the way down so now we're putting on the bottom starter strap and you'll notice that you nail it up here and then your hook on the bottom of your siding is going to hook on the bottom I've actually seen this installed upside down if you install it upside down this is nailing flange it's going to be pointing down so you want to make sure that you get that right now this is like setting your first tile for a pile floor we're setting your first row of bricks for a brick building so you need to make sure that you get this nice and straight if this is nice and straight and level then your whole wall is going to go up straight and level so I pack one nail and now what we're going to do is we're going to go we're going to go through and level it mark it and then I'm going to come back and hammer it in so right there is where I want it we're going to take our pencil we're going to mark it and then we're going to tack in that nail right there and wherever I have a stud we're going to tack in for now check it with my lab okay we're ready to put up our first panel vinyl so I took the long piece and I marked it in plates and I cut it a quarter inch shorter than it actually needs to be that way you can expand and contract with different seasons now the bottom edge of this should hook on to our starter strip we'll drop that in there and you need to make sure it locks in so that's not locked in then you're not level and we're going to go through and we're going to tack this man in place I'll get a nail in here and then we'll check it for level just to make sure everything's good and if it's slightly off we can't pull up a little harder or not pull up so hard to keep it level on a small run like a shed you'd have to be way off to notice that it's out of level but if you're doing a building that has two windows and are at the same height and you start having problems with your thing being level you'll know is it so take your time get that first one on there nice and even we're going to show you how to cut the vinyl I always lay the strips with this back edge here against the fence you'll get less tear out if you cut it that way so we just line it up where you want to make your cut I already have this one measure and when you cut you want to cut real slow now I don't have a sliding compound miter so I'm not going to be able to cut all the way through [Music] to finish the cut I just use my aviation snips eyeball it and just make a straight cut right up to my line to put pieces together you want to lock together to factory edges and you always keep your nailing flange on the top so I already have a small piece nailed in here and I'm keeping the seen behind this bush just to try and hide it the two pieces should lock together just like that and then you fit it into place okay so now we're at the window and we're going to have to cut a notch out of this chips first thing I want to do is check the distance from this edge up to the bottom of the window and I'm getting exactly three inches so we'll leave a little play we'll cut that at two and three quarters so we don't want to forget that number and then what we're going to do is we're going to fit our panel in place and we're going to mark right where the edges of the window is so it's got to slide in right here and right up out there now we're going to mark our cut and we're going to go up from the bottom two and three quarters so it's about right here where this fold is so we'll start off by cutting on the compound miter saw and then we'll finish up with a knife we're going to finish our cut on the backside just with a knife the vinyl is very slippery so you just want to kind of take time and I would recommend cutting it in two scores first one being light and the second one pushing a little bit harder but you have that track to follow that should take care of it let's check our fit took a little bit of maneuvering but I got the piece to fit right in there real well so now we can work on just going up the sides of the window and we're just going to double check for level so that when we get up to the top of the window we're sure both sides are going to meet evenly so we're on the last piece we're going to see how it fits over a window looks like it's knocked out right so now what we have to do is take a measurement from the bottom of this lip here up to the top and I'm getting about 8 and 1/8 yeah so it looks like I'm going to be cutting it at 8 and 1/8 it should fit in I ripped down this piece using my utility knife and this strip that came off we're going to use right now to help secure this panel so it doesn't blow out of the J channel so we'll just tack this strip in flip it right up in here [Applause] this is the moment of truth we'll see if this last piece fits I put that extra strip in there because there's no way to nail this last piece well that's it we got it in there it's nice and tight looks very level straight so that's what you want you want it to be a real tight fit so the wind doesn't grab it and blow it out it's nice when you don't have a little piece of siding like an inch and a half wide to stick up in there because something like that it's just not going to hold so you want to try and calculate it so that you have full pieces of siding on your building anyhow I'm double-wide sick and as I said earlier I have a full series on how to build this shed and this concludes the vinyl siding video I'll include some links in the description to some of the tools that we used in this project

Channel: doublewide6 Repairs LLC

Views: 124,861

Keywords: Vinyl siding, installing vinyl siding, shed siding, building a shed, diy siding, siding around a window, laying out a shed, shed build, shed hip roof

Id: ibziYGY-oeY

Length: 20min 22sec (1222 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 13 2017