How To Tack Down Siding Edge

Step 5 tuck the end of the carpet into the gap between the tack strip and the tile by using a stair tool or a putty knife.

How to tack down siding edge.

Vinyl siding is installed from the bottom up. Insert the hook of a vinyl siding removal tool into the buttlock of a panel you want to snap back in place. Using drip edge with a nailing edge approx. This will allow for expansion and contraction and prevent buckling.

4 deep nail the drip edge to the sheathing every 16 if installing multiple runs of drip edge lap them by 1 4 1 2 inch keeping the nail back from the lapped joint. Each panel has a row of slotted holes at the top. Use the carpet kicker and stretch the carpet over the tacks and past the tack strip by 1 4 inch. Refer to figure 1 below as you assemble the track sections.

Install the starter course. Use a snap lock punch to place lugs in the cut edge of the panel every 6 152 4mm so that the raised lug is on the outside face. Install undersill trim under over the window as a receiver for the cut siding. Creating a siding track layout use the track sections from the track pack and eight curve sections three straight sections and one terminal section available separately and included in ready to run train sets to create a siding track layout.

The tool is available at most hardware stores and usually costs less than 10. 10 straight track a o36 curve section b. Diy how to fix loose vinyl siding with a malco sideswiper siding tool. Nails are spaced every 16 18 inches.