How To Nail Siding On A House

If all the siding is tight it was installed wrong and should be redone.

How to nail siding on a house.

You re going to push it in at the bottom snap there and just go all the way around snap and pull up snap snap snap it s not that hard you just push it in there you go. Starting with the soffit nail lengths of j channel against the inner edge of the fascia board. This channel conceals the cut edges of the soffit lengths as they meet the fascia. As its name lap implies an upper siding board laps over the board below it by 1 to 2 inches.

On thick profiles of siding nails may be hidden meaning they are driven into the upper portion of a board so they are covered by the lower part of the board above it. Most lap siding is beveled meaning that the bottom edge is thicker than the top. Just don t pound the roofing nails in all the way. Play at both ends so if it s nailed properly loosely you should be able to slide it 1 4 to 1 2 in.

Simply go outside grab the lower edges of a siding course and try to slide it back and forth photo 1.