How To Fiz Old Shingle Sidings

How to restore and maintain cedar shingle siding step 1.

How to fiz old shingle sidings.

Pour the wood stripping product into a low pressure sprayer. Cover landscaping material around the house with plastic sheeting or wet the area down with a hose. Depending upon the type of siding it may be helpful to drive a couple of small wooden shingles or wedges beneath the board to pull it outward. Get up close to the shingles and look at the siding.

A common remodeling practice is to install new vinyl or aluminum siding over cement asbestos shingle siding as well as over many other older siding materials when the old siding has become damaged leaky or cosmetically ugly. Cover an area you can comfortably work about a 4 by 8 foot. A typical procedure is to install furring strips on the existing wall avoiding breaking the existing siding. The process is fairly simple.

1 make a story pole from a straight 1x3. How to repair siding shingles if your siding is in need of repair this section will show you how to remove damaged shingles and attach new ones. Inspect the condition of sheathing. Step 1 remove the old shingles.

You ll use basic tools to wiggle the rotted shingle out reassemble the pieces and use the old shingle as a guide for the new one. Mark locations of shingle courses on pole. If any part seems damaged then use the crow bar to pry off the pieces which have been damaged. 2 use a square to mark a straight square line for cutting across the board on each side of the damaged area.

When parts of a cedar shingle siding come away during a heavy rain storm you may find that some of the shingles remain in parts on the exterior.