Installing Vinyl Siding

There are two basic steps to installing vinyl siding: installing the trim pieces and installing the siding itself. Every place where vinyl siding joins something else a window, a door, another wall requires the appropriate trim piece. The trim pieces loosely hold the siding in place, cover any cuts, and provide a small space where the siding can expand and contract.Siding pieces generally come 12 feet long and between 10 and 12 inches high.Pieces should overlap by about an inch. Again, this is so that the material can expand and contract without exposing the sheathing underneath. Where you need to cut the siding horizontally to fit or under a window in the space left at the top of the wall, you need to create small tabs along the cut edge with a snap lock punch. The tabs will lock into the undersill trim and hold the cut edge in place. Learn more at http://www.hometime.com/Howto/projects/siding/side_2.htm