Cutting Vinyl Siding In Place

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Cutting vinyl siding in place.

Line up the place you want to cut with the edge of your table and use a carpenter s square to ensure you make a clean straight cut. When installing vinyl siding you have to make accurate end cuts to fit the siding tightly against trim or seamlessly inside a j channel. The total you get is how much you ll need to cut off the siding. Lie a strip of vinyl siding on a flat work table.

Pay close attention to the area where the top row of siding meets the soffits. Use the straightedge as the guide and place it along the draw line that you want to cut the vinyl siding into step 3. Failing to do this can result in your circular saw cutting into the workbench or table beneath the siding itself. Lay the vinyl siding on a flat table or workbench.

Measure the length of the section of wall you re covering with siding. You also usually have to make at least one longitudinal cut to trim the last piece of siding that you install on a wall. You might need to wiggle the tool to work it into the. Use measuring tape to measure how much siding you need to cut off.

Then subtract that amount from the length of the piece of siding you re going to cut. We are going to score on the siding instead of cutting so that you don t have to apply much pressure here. Use your measuring tape to determine where you want to cut your vinyl siding then mark the siding on its underside with a marker. If the piece of the vinyl siding is thick guide the blade of the utility knife along the straightedge.

For the smoothest cuts put the blade in backward. Slip the curved end of a vinyl siding zip tool into the seam between two horizontally interlocking runs of siding that you need to remove.