How To Install Vinyl Siding

in this video you're going to learn how to install vinyl siding in this vinyl siding installation video we're going to be installing corners j-channel starter strip j blocks all that so you're going to find all that content in this video and all i ask from you in return is to smash that like button it helps promote the video and if you're new this channel my name is josh this channel is all about building your own house saving a ton of money so be sure to subscribe and ring that bell so you get a notification every time i release a new video and let's get started in this video we will be installing the siding from ground up to the top of this gable end as well as this straight wall that's connected to that gable end because we'll be covering a lot of information in this video i'm going to put timestamps in the description below and in the comments section at any time you want to jump to a certain section as in if we want to go jump to the corners jump to the starter strip whatever section you need to know you can just do that without seeing all the other business in the video so the first thing i want to do is go over the tools you'll need so some basic tools you'll need are 10 snips for cutting the siding and you'll need a hammer for driving your aluminum nails and you'll need a tape measure of course a chalk line a pencil for marking a speed square and a level and there's several ways you can cut siding but for sake of simplicity i'm just going to cut everything in this video using 10 snips and i'm going to show you some other tools you'll need if you're working up in the air some tools you'll need are the following if you're going to be working this gable end especially is a ladder and a scaffolding system of some kind some people use pump jacks some people use a standard scaffolding system you see here and i will be using two by tens for walk boards the very first step to installing your vinyl siding is you need to install the corners of the wall you're going to be doing so if we're starting this gable side we got to put the corners on this side and the other side and the very important piece to doing the length of these corners is it must overlap the foundation at least a half inch so that way when water goes down you're siding it goes over your foundation and not above your foundation and into the house so that's very critical so the first thing we need to do is chalk chalk lines three inches away from the corner for this nailing flange to line up with so your corner looks nice and straight let's do that first so right here is the top of the foundation that we want to go at least a half inch over i just wanted to show you that since the camera was pointing down here but in order to mark that three inch mark i just take a speed square so that way we come square off the house and mark three inches on this side and then three inches on this side and now we do the same thing up by the bird box if you have a bird box but if you don't have a bird box it's just at the very top where this wall intersects the bottom of the roof okay so just repeat that step up here so speed square hooked on to the side marked three inches and now on this side do the same and now what you do whenever you get your mark placed just take a small nail it can be an eight penny nail a trim nail anything of that nature and you're gonna want to tack a nail here and then just hook your chalk line onto that nail and line it up with the mark you made below it next to the foundation and strike your line so you should have two chalk lines on each side of the corner that looks something like this and the three inch mark works for most manufacturers but check your corner before you chalk your lines to be sure it'll work out so in most cases you'll be sliding up to a bird box that you're going to have to cut around to install your corner so before you cut anything on your corner be sure to take your corner here line it up with that chalk line that we made and then slide it up and when i say line up that chalk line we made the nailing flange right at this edge here's our three inch mark but up against our bird box where we got to cut around and just make a mark right to the edge of it and that's going to be our first mark we make and then the next step after we got that mark is we're going to get a measurement from the bottom of this bird box to where it meets the f channel of where the soffit's laying in so let's get that measurement and then we're going to put a 712 on this corner right here to match the 712 on this house that it meeting it's meeting into so our measurement up to that 712 is about six inches and then what we need to do is put a 712 on this corner so in order to do that you're going to need your speed square just hook it on that end and use the bottom number here and make it line it up with the seven so this is our common 712 go ahead and put a 712 on it all right so here's the end that we marked and if you're wondering how we got that 712 just put your speed square on there and pivot it until your common number is a 7 and if it's a 6 12 on your roof just put a 6 and five if it's a five so on so forth so we know this is a two inch mark if you hold your speed square up there that's where it butt into that bird box so before we do anything else here what we need to do is slide it down until our two inch mark in this case butts into that 712 and now we know that it was six inches down from that so you just take your regular tape measure go about six inches and then make a mark here so there we got six inches and now just use your speed square to scribe your two inch line here just like so and this takes a little practice as well and now what we need to do is make our square line because the bottom side of the soffit is where it intersects on the other side of the roof right like that so now all we got to do is cut this line out cut through here and cut our 712 and that's pretty simple to do so the hard parts out of the way is just getting all those measurements you simply just cut following that line and you'll learn that sometimes you gotta cut sections out in order to get your snips in there so about like this and then go underneath all right and when it's cold out you may need to resort to using a battery circular saw with a blade turned backwards so right like that again with our section you're cutting off that scrap cut a little v-notch out of it to get your snips in and it will make the process go way easier because you almost physically can't get your snips into it to cut it if you don't do that all right so now as you can see this is the part that's going to go up around the bird box and this is going to be the other side that goes on the bottom of the soffit let's go get this installed all right now we're going to double check to make sure the corner looks good before we start putting nails in it so line it up with the red chalk line in this case it's red it could be blue whatever you're using and then slide it up and if it looks like it's meeting your roof and your bird box well which this case it looks good go ahead and tack a nail into a nailing flange into the nailing flange to hold it into place so you want to make sure you nail towards the top of one of those nailing holes that way it kind of holds it into place because if you nail it in the middle it's not going to hold it from sliding down and same with anything vinyl don't drive your nails in tight should be a little loose so now that we got the corner secured to where it's going to be sitting permanently before we nail it off we need to mark the bottom where the foundation is to get our length and that's the best way to get it accurately is just temporarily put your corner on with one nail mark your bottom cut it then reinstall it to get the length of our corner just line it up with your chalk line and then come down here to where the foundation meets your sill plate so right here at the top of the foundation go ahead and make a mark and now we know we want this corner about an inch farther down than that mark so go ahead and take your speed square or a tape measure and i'm just going to hold it on a whole number here which is seven inches and then i'm just going to mark six inches as our one inch so now we know after we cut this square that's going to be one inch below our foundation now all we got to do is remove this nail take the corner down and cut that bottom off square so this is the mark of the top of the foundation that's the one inch mark down below it so to transcribe that to the face of the corner i just put a speed square line up that mark mark the speed square to the top of the face then go ahead and just make a square mark to that and then come on this side and then make a square mark to that line and now we'll take our snips and go ahead and cut that off and again because these snips are a little thicker than uh what you would like to get in here tight all you got to do is cut a section out there and then cut the section on the face the same way and always cut the v shape out of the scrap piece of course and then now just run your snips over that line that we made right like that go to the other side do the same thing again straight cut on the nailing flange cut a v out and then cut the j channel piece of the corner the j-channel like piece of the corner not actual j-channel all right and then and this stuff after you do it a few times you'll realize it's not too bad i know watching somebody do it might look difficult but really isn't too bad cut that line out and boom so now we're ready to install this corner permanently go ahead and line it up with your chalk line again you can actually use that same hole that we use to secure it initially to cut the bottom so i'll place that nail right in there put it in snug and again with anything with vinyl you don't nail it tight there still should be some play in it like that and go ahead every 16 inches or so make sure you line up on your chalk line go ahead and secure it with a nail and do this on both sides of the corner so as you can see we're nailed off every 16 inches and we are riding that red line that is our chalk line very nicely and another tip if you eyeball down the side of your corner it should look nice and square like this the reveal of it should look pretty uniform so that's the way to double check and look at your bottom to see how square it looks as well just to make sure your corner is going to look appropriate so we installed the first corner the next thing we need to do is go to the other side of the wall install the next corner so this whole wall is going to be ready for the next step and the next step is going to be installing our trims if you have a meter you need to install a j block for that or if you have any outlets you need to install those now as well so after you or your electrician decides where your meter is going any outlets or any outside lighting that you're going to be using you're going to have to install it's called a j block and all a j block is is a square that has j channel built onto the side more or less so instead of having a block and then putting your own j channel on the j blocks already have that cover for you which makes it very nice so after you have that installed your siding is going to slide right into it like that and gives you a nice finished look so just a real quick run down on how to install it after you decide where it goes tack a nail in the top corner or bottom corner and put your level on it and then set it level and then pop a nail on the other side and that's going to hold it level where you need it and then just nail off around the nailing flange every about six inches in this case and on your outlets it's probably about every two inches and i'll show you an outlet real quick this is what's called an e-block and what a e-block is it's like the j-block except it has an electrical outlet in the middle of it and these come with these trims around it so you must first pop this trim off install this outer layer first and you just put a nail in it every three inches or so each slots about three inches apart and you level this up as well just like you would the j block and then unlike the j block you have this outside trim you got to replace and then you're ready to install your siding around it and now we're going to move on to the next step so now that we got our corners on we got our blocks on for our meter and we got our electro outlets on all that now it's time to actually get the siding started so the first thing we need to do to do that we need to install what's called starter strip this can come either plastic or aluminum in this case it's aluminum and this stuff's universal it works for all all types of siding whether it's dutch lap beaded whatever style you got and that goes with this whole video is the same way you cut and install the beaded siding we're installing is the same way you'd cut dutch lap and everything so just so you know but the theory is here you don't have to chalk a line or anything if your foundation is level and your band board here acts as a place you can use to slide your starter strip up to and nail two and it'll give you a perfect overlap so if you look here here's our sill plate here's our band board and here's our foundation if you slide your starter strip up to it and butt to your band board you can see it overlaps the foundation almost perfectly so i'm just showing you that in case you check the level and everything works out and you can do that i've had had that in some houses where you don't have to chalk any lines or anything it works out great and in this case it does too but for the sake of this video i want to show you how to do it if you don't have a van board or a level foundation so this is something you want to pay close attention to but if you do it's real simple you can just slide this starter strip right up to the bottom of that band board and you're ready to go but i'm going to show you the other way to do it too so come over to one side of the wall or the other go to the corner post here and then come over here find the bottom of your foundation so right here is the bottom of the foundation and make a little mark on your corner post and then come up an inch and a half and double check your starter strip to make sure an inch and a half measurement works because wherever the top of that starter strip is is where the top of it's going to be when i nail it so that's something you need to make sure if your starter strip's a little different design and it's thinner or wider you need to accommodate for it that way but in this case an inch and a half works good so again find the top of the foundation come up inch and a half make a mark and now we're going to put a nail right there and if you notice an inch and a half is at the top of that sill plate so i have a feeling it was manufactured that way for a reason so we're going to put a nail there and hook our chalk line to it and go down to the other side of the wall and do the same thing so let's go ahead and hook it and do that and i'll snap it in the middle of the wall as well now that we got our chalk line on the wall grab a piece of your starter strip and this stuff comes in about 10 foot sections so you might have to get about right in the middle of it because it's kind of long and flimsy go ahead and line up to the top of that chalk line and use your roofing nails that are aluminum inch and a quarter in this case the same nails that you put the siding on with and the only difference to nailing this compared to nailing the vinyl is you can nail the aluminum tight because it's underneath the siding so you wouldn't see it if it was to uh crinkle or anything like that all right and then when you nail this nail it about every 16 inches or so about like everything else with the vinyl all right and once you nail that off you got your starter strip ready to go and now it's time to go ahead and start the siding another tip to the starter strip is check that chalk line to make sure it's level or the band board whichever ever method you use and see if you are setting level because now is going to be the time to manipulate it if you're not so right there that's sitting good so we're good here but double check yours in case your foundation's off a little bit i got it all installed i'd like to point out i like to alternate between the lower slot and the upper slot as i nail this off going across and as you can see i got this whole wall ready to go before i get started actually installing the siding i wanted to explain something really important that most people don't think about where your siding laps is all going to be dependent on which side of the wall you start on so for instance the view you're looking at is coming up to the house from the road so you're going to be looking down that wall a lot so you don't want to see any breaks if you can avoid it or try to limit the amount of brakes you see so to do that as you can see behind me you don't see any breaks in the siding where it overlaps because i started from the other side of the wall and as the brakes came across they ever lapped that way so you don't see any breaks so i'm going to show you what it looks like from the other side so that way you know which side of the wall to start on because that's the same pattern that's going to run up the whole wall if your view is from the back side looking towards the road you're going to see all these breaks see them so you'll see that throughout the whole wall and that's because the overlap started going this way and you don't want that if you can avoid it from the primary view of your house just a little tip something that the only the pros would tell you so you understand how this stuff interlocks on your starter strip that's going to be what it looks like at the bottom of the side again it has kind of a hook shape to it and here's the starter strip so as you can see here the starter strip actually hooks right down into it like so so that's what we're trying to achieve that interlock as we go across that first piece and actually all the other pieces do something similar except this top of the siding is going to act as a starter strip to hook into so let's go ahead and get started all right so we got a full piece of siding as our starter piece and all we got to do is go ahead and hook it into that starter strip just like the example i showed you earlier and then if you get started go ahead and slide it down into your corner right like so and you also want to leave about a quarter inch gap from the inside of that corner to your siding it gives you room for expansion and contraction so go ahead and lock this into place really well and this first piece doesn't snap in on the starter like it would on regular siding so you gotta see seems like gotta hold a little more tension up on it as you get it started what you need to do is try to hit a stud but on this first row most time you have a band board so you don't have to try to hit a stud but make sure you space them about every 16 inches on center these are the nails that we use they're just inch and quarter roofing nails and they're aluminum so they don't rust now i'm going to go down here and show you how to properly set one of these so about 16 inches away from each nail and you want to go ahead and just nail it to where there's about a quarter inch gap or so eighth inch to a quarter inch just as long as the siding siding's loose and not tight is really the main part so as you can see here there is some play and it's about an eighth inch to a quarter inch like i said every 16 inches on center so now when it comes down to this next piece it's going to overlap up to about an inch to about right here so i'm going to go ahead and install that now as you can see here we overlapped about an inch and as you can see here as well i try not to go past this break just because it seems like a good place to stop and right here we always put a nail at the closest nailing tab from the edge so as you look down through here we're cleared down to where we're going to have to finish this run so we're going to get a measurement here and i'll show you how to get this measurement the easy way so once we get to the end of a run to where we got to make a cut all we got to do take your tape measure butt it into the corner measure right up to the piece of siding that we're meeting and right now we got a about nine and a half so from that nine and a half we need to allow a quarter for expansion in here so let's say nine and a quarter because we gotta take off the quarter inch and then add an inch to that and that's going to be your length so we're going to have 10 and a quarter as our length because we want an inch overlap onto this other piece of siding let's go get it cut okay so make sure you're cutting it off the factory end that's going to be overlapping the other piece hook to the end go ahead and mark the measurement we needed right here and then all you got to do now is take your speed square butt it up against the interlocking piece here or you can also hook it to the bottom like this either way to make a square line and then you just take your tent snips and just cut right down that line and that is all there is to it and this stuff cuts way easier when it's warm than when it's cold when it's cold you got to be careful not to crack the siding so here's our piece let's go get it installed now that we're up off that starter strip i'm going to go ahead and show you how to install all the other pieces it's a little different than that starter strip piece but all you got to do is hold the piece aside until you overlap the other piece about an inch and then come up to the locking strip here and this is where you're going to interlock it all you got to do is kind of put your fingertips up under the siding and push it until it locks into the other piece that's down below it so you'll you'll feel it lock into place and work it all across the whole piece of siding and keep going until the whole piece is locked into place and after you do a couple pieces you'll get the hang of the technique it's not too difficult just kind of roll it down and pull up at the same time so go ahead and get the whole piece locked in all right and to double check your work to make sure you're locked into place it should hang there by itself and yet it should slide freely like you see there so there's no resistance it's interlocked correctly and now what you need to do is find the stud because then you try to hit each stud as you go across here so the best way to locate the stud is go ahead and hit across the wall until you hear it solid so right there i can tell it's something solid behind there so now we'll go ahead and see if there is a stud there and there is so on this particular brand of siding this has numbers or i'm sorry has letters going across each nailing slot so there's 16 on center so if we know it's the end that we're on here each end on each slot that's correlated with it is going to be hitting a stud that's 16 on center now these don't work on two foot on center they're only for 16 on center and just so you know this is certainty brand siding so they're the ones with the uh little letters that correlate 16 on center so i'll show you that up close and since these are 16 on center as you can see let's say the stud was on this e you would come over here and then hit the next e because that would be the next stud 16 on center so that's just a nice quick reference that certainty supplied on this piece of siding which is very helpful so i would highly recommend certainteed siding so i'm just going to do one last reminder of this but make sure you leave that eighth inch to a quarter inch gap there because that is very critical to this siding because you do not want it looking wavy if you ever nail it this stuff will expand and contract and cause waviness so you don't want that once you get your siding up high enough to where you're meeting into a window these are new construction windows they're going to be the most common type of window you're going to run into so you need to get what's called underseal trim to lock that piece of siding into to finish up under the window so the underseal trim looks like this has a nailing flange this is the face of it here and the siding slides right up into that crease so that ensures that wind doesn't grab the top of it and pull it out so you definitely need underseal trim and how you install this stuff is pretty simple just cut it to length underneath the window and nail it every 16 inches apart and after i'll get this installed and put the piece of siding up in it i'm going to show you what that looks like here's the undersill trim installed and i wanted to show you when you cut the height make sure you cut the height of the piece of siding that come up kind of close to the window here so it goes up tight into that underseal trim i'm going to show you a little trick using a speed square to mark your rip so you've got to rip down the window this is two and a half that we need here so all you got to do put it up tight close to the on the bottom of the siding hold your pencil at two and a half and just slide it up the siding and that's going to make you a nice line to rip the piece of siding down to go under the window all right i'm going to show you how to install this into that under sill now they make a tool called a snap lock tool and it'll put snaps a little rivets across the top of this piece so when you slide it into the underseal trim it gets locked into place but i never use that and i'll be honest i never had a piece of siding come out from the underseal trim so that's up to you and if you use it i'd say it's definitely probably best practice but i don't and i've never had a piece coming out just fy so what you got to do is snap this into the siding below it and slide it into that underseal trim at the same time let's go ahead and do that takes a little finessing but go ahead and slide it up into that trim and at the same time lock it into place so that's what it's going to look like underneath the window it's going to be a nice clean looking finish and then on the corners you'll see you leave about a quarter inch gap from the window and the siding so when it's slid back in there you need to leave a little bit of a gap so the same process you leave a quarter inch gap around it but with this e-block it has its own trim all you gotta do is slide that back over it and lock it into place that's gonna give you a nice clean finish and a nice trim to end your e-block installation to install a j-block for a light mount it's the same process as the e-block except you put a piece of wood behind it to add stability in a place to anchor your light but it still has this trim that you place around it and you leave a quarter inch gap when you cut around it as well thought i'd show you that in case you have a light to install

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Length: 30min 11sec (1811 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 05 2021