How To Remove And Replace A Piece Of Vinyl Siding

With the other use the claw end of a hammer to pry up the nails holding the damaged piece of vinyl to the wall.

How to remove and replace a piece of vinyl siding.

Look for a horizontal seam between two courses of vinyl siding. Push the new piece into the nailing strip of the course below. Hold the loose undamaged piece of vinyl up and out of the way with one hand. Hgtv expert henry harrison shows how you can reattach it using a vinyl siding removal tool also known as a zip tool.

15 minute vinyl siding repair with a zip tool. Use the zip tool to release the buttlock at the top and bottom of the piece you want to remove. Use a zip tool to disconnect two pieces of siding. To remove a piece at your eye level slide the zip tool under the piece above that one.

Slide the zip tool along the bottom edge to release the vinyl siding from the piece below it. Pull the piece of vinyl siding downward to disengage it from the course below it. Be careful because older siding can become brittle. Starting at one end of the damaged piece push the end of the zip siding removal tool up under the siding until you feel it hook the bottom lip.

When replacing siding try to purchase a piece from the same manufacturer in the same color. First remove the corner piece then slide the zip tool under the siding and loosen it up. Pull the nails holding the damaged siding and remove the damaged piece. Reveal the nails anchoring a piece to the wall by sticking the zip tool under the bottom of the piece above it.

The vinyl siding zip tool will save you loads of time. Insert the siding removal tool where the panels overlap and pull down and out. Installing a replacement piece of vinyl siding is the reverse of removing the damaged panel. Slide the hook of the zip tool between the buttlock lip and toplock.

Use a cat s paw or other small pry bar to pull the nails from the course you need to remove. Lift up the very top portion of the trim to expose the top edge of the vertical siding. First you nail up the new piece driving nails through the slots in the nail hem then you connect the buttlocks with the zip tool. Zip tools disconnect a higher piece from a lower piece.