How To Do Vinyl Siding Around Windows

Place the siding where you want it and mark it a quarter inch from the edge.

How to do vinyl siding around windows.

Understand how to deal with wrap around soffit. Preparing window area for new vinyl 1. Use tin snips to cut a length of j molding 2 inches longer than the width of the window. All vinyl siding and vinyl soffit and fascia can be cut with tin snips a circular saw with a plywood blade or by scoring it with a knife and breaking it.

Soffit and fascia starting with. Dry wall surrounding the inside of the window may. Siding the soffit and fascia area 1. Now is also the time to add or replace a vinyl sill if you would like a window sill feature.

Install lengths of j channel along the inner edge of the fascia. Get professional looking watertight results with these residing techniques. Continue in this manner until you have removed enough siding to replace the window. Right around the window you may have to move shorter pieces up and down to get them to release from the j channel.

C matching your siding. Measure and cut the soffit. Install the snipped j molding along the bottom of the window. Inspect the flashing and building wrap around the window.

Cut a 1 inch notch out. Cut the perimeter. Ensure that the flashing along the bottom of the window overlaps the nailing hem of. Working with vinyl siding.

Continue cutting j molding for the remaining sides of the window and continue the process of nailing them. Remove the window and screen. There is no exact way to do this as long as you end up with the window and screen out. Nail j channel pieces under the fascia.

Cutting and installing the molding. Lower the strip so that it releases the vinyl below it. Slide the zip tool under the butt edge. Instead remove any nails then use a siding removal tool to separate the siding panels.

Take out dry wall surrounding window on the inside of the house. If the vinyl siding around the window area has been damaged or needs replacing then now is the time to remove it. You ll need specialty tools like this zip tool to work with installing vinyl siding. You ll need a zip tool to remove siding.