How To Install Vinyl Siding Around Windows

To stiffen the trimmed section slide a length of utility trim.

How to install vinyl siding around windows. Vinyl siding must be nailed so expansion and contraction are not restricted. To prevent the relatively thin panels from buckling observe these fitting and nailing rules. Next measure and cut the siding to fit the measurements of your soffit and push each panel into the j channel. Vinyl siding installation is designed to hang loosely on the sheathing so that it can expand and contract with temperature changes.

There is no exact way to do this as long as you end up with the window and screen out while not destroying the frame or anything else around the window. Gap at all ends. Allow a 1 4 in. Gap for expansion wherever siding butts accessories.

With the insulation backing in place install siding to within one row of the bottom of the window. To install vinyl siding to the soffit and fascia area on your home nail lengths of j channel along the inner edge of the fascia leaving the nail heads out about 1 32 to 1 16 of an inch. Siding must be cut in lengths to provide for expansion. Cutting and installing the siding 1 place the piece of siding to be installed under the window along the bottom edge and hold it where it will be located horizontally along the wall.

When installing in freezing weather below 40. Then notch the next piece to fit.