How To Remove Vinyl Siding From A House

Cut the spare piece of vinyl along the marks using straight tin snips.

How to remove vinyl siding from a house.

Lift up the very top portion of the trim to expose the top edge of the vertical siding. Pull the zip tool out to disengage the. Cut a vinyl patch 4 inches 10 cm wider than the removed segment. The channels around windows and the bottom of the wall secure the edges and bottom row into position.

You won t be able to. Measure and mark a point 2 inches 5 1 cm away from each side of the removed segment. The vinyl siding zip tool will save you loads of time. Hold the removed segment up to a spare piece of vinyl siding.

Look for a horizontal seam between two courses of vinyl siding. Pull the zip tool downward and out to unhook the bottom lip then slide it along the edge pulling the siding out as you go. Use a zip tool to disconnect two pieces of siding. Detaching pieces of vinyl siding 1.

Removing vinyl siding is one of the best things one can do to a house. 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. Insert the siding removal tool where the panels overlap and pull down and out.

You should be able to slide it horizontally and remove it from the channel to expose the nails from the second row down. To remove the uppermost piece start at one end of the bottom of the first panel and push the end of the zip tool up under siding until it hooks onto the underside of the lip. Use a cat s paw or other small pry bar to pull the nails from the course you need to remove. Remove the anchoring nails.

Slide the hook of the zip tool between the buttlock lip and toplock. Then unzip any pieces above the damaged piece. Slide the tool about six inches 15 cm from where you inserted it and pry it. Slide the tool sideways and pry upward.

Zip tools disconnect a higher piece from a lower piece.