How Siding Works

There are other elements protecting your home but your siding is the first barrier to entry.

How siding works.

The first is to protect your home from outside elements like rain snow hail or ice. Home siding no matter the material has two basic functions. Get professional looking watertight results with these residing techniques. Siding installation generally takes approximately 10 to 14 days.

Also you want to follow the natural flow of water and aim downward with the hose rather than up from the ground. You don t want a pressurized source of water to hit the siding directly because you might cause damage to the siding or the wall behind the siding. Working with vinyl siding. Slide the zip tool under the butt edge.

Make sure to trim shrubbery and trees around your home. You ll need specialty tools like this zip tool to work with installing vinyl siding. You ll need a zip tool to remove siding. The second function of home siding is design.

The siding is made from thin flexible sheets of plastic about 2 millimeters thick pre colored and bent into shape during manufacturing. The sheets are 12 feet long and about a foot high. How to prepare your home. You start at the bottom and the sheets interlock into each other as you go up.

Soffit and fascia if the soffit on your home wraps around a corner as with a hip roof you ll need to make some. If you also include painting this will add a few days. The siding is naturally designed to drain water downward source.