How To Install Outside Corner Vinyl Siding

Learn how to install vinyl siding on your home.

How to install outside corner vinyl siding.

Holding the siding panel under the window mark the width of the opening on the panel allowing 1 4 in. Hammer the first nail into the nailing slot. Expansionwhen the temperature changes vinyl siding expands and contracts. Nail j channel pieces under the fascia.

Measure and cut the soffit. Next lock a scrap piece of siding into the panel below butting against the window. Clearance on each window side. Clearance below the sill.

Keep a 1 4 inch gap between the top of the corner post and the soffit. The way to allow for this expansion is to install the corner post down from the soffit or top of the corner. Install lengths of j channel along the inner edge of the fascia. Install outside and inside corner posts.

If the soffit on your house wraps around a corner you will need to. Pull up as. Understand how to deal with wrap around soffit. Cap the corner posts.

13 simple vinyl siding installation tips use the wider starter strip. Each corner should be hung straight so drop a plumb line for each corner post. Mice bees and all sorts of other critters love making their home inside vinyl corner posts. Nail into place through the slots in the post with the nail at the top of the slot.

The bottom of the starter strip the part the bottom panel hooks on to should be at least.