The installation of vinyl siding is not a difficult thing if you are a handy person and have some handy friends. A lot of people are side-stepping the additional cost of labor when deciding to side their homes.
Choosing to use vinyl siding to reside your home is a good choice. Once the siding is installed, your home will look like a brand new one. You would think this would mean the price would be outrageous; however, if you install the siding yourself, you can save a lot of money of labor. This makes the project quite inexpensive.
The people in the house behind me just had their garage sided. The man doing the work told us that we could put vinyl siding on our garage pretty cheaply if we did it ourselves.
As an added incentive, he reminded us the old siding being torn off could be scrapped for money, and the money we'd get for the old siding would almost pay for the new vinyl siding!
The first thing done when installing siding yourself is the flashing around the windows and doors. This is because rain needs to flow off the roof, down the walls and to the ground without any pooling. Otherwise, you'll have leaks.
The next part is the J-trim or J-channel. This needs to be put around all the windows and doors. The J-channel is what the vinyl siding slips into so the siding has a neat look. You will want all your jagged edges hiding.
After that, you would install the soffit material, the fascia and the edging. The corner pieces come next. Both outside and inside corners are vinyl and you have to remember to leave expansion room. Temperature changes cause the vinyl siding to contract and expand, so it's important to leave a little room for that to happen so it doesn't crack.
After the corner pieces are all installed, you can install all the extra special little pieces for external outlets, spigots, lighting and dryer vents.
Once all these pieces are installed, you can start hanging your vinyl siding. Start with the starter strip and then just work your way upwards.
It won't take too long before you have what looks like a brand new home! It's a lot of work, but well worth it when you look at your pocketbook and realize you can now afford to do some other home improvement project.
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