Installing Vinyl Soffit Panels

Many accessories including trim soffit and fascia are available for a vinyl siding job.

Installing vinyl soffit panels.

Begin panel installation at back corner of house and work toward house front. This week we would like to show you how to install soffit products as well as fascia trim products. Siding should be lapped away from high traffic areas i e doors sidewalks etc. Welcome youtube family to another how to diy video.

Soffit panels are similar to vertical siding. The installation of soffit will determine the positioning of the inside and outside corner posts. As an alternative installation of specific types of drop in contoured foam underlayments for various styles of vinyl siding are available. Snap bottom of panel into starter strip and nail to wall as in important installation tips.

Best way to cut vinyl siding and installation. Home ranges from 4 850 to 5 600 or 4 80 per square foot installed 2 sq. Always refer to the installation guide on the particular vinyl siding that you re installing but most vinyl siding panels should overlap each other by at least an inch. Next measure and cut the siding to fit the measurements of your soffit and push each panel into the j channel.

The advent of vinyl siding has allowed homeowners with average do it yourself skills to change the look of the exterior of their home more easily than other siding methods such as wood brick or stone. 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. Plus 4 80 lf for trim and accessories. Plus 2 80 lf for trim and accessories.

Some manufacturers of vinyl siding do not recommend the use of drop in backers with certain vinyl siding configurations. Installing first siding panel. Higher quality siding on the same house will set you back by about 10 200 and 11 100 or 8 80 per square foot 4 sq. It also is necessary to complete the soffit before the final course of siding is installed on the wall.

Gap at all ends. The average cost to install vinyl siding on a single story 1 600 sq. Vinyl soffit is designed to be easily installed lengthwise from wall to fascia. Leave a 1 4 in.

Space where panel butts corner post. A soffit is the horizontal surface under a roof overhang. All vinyl siding and vinyl soffit and fascia can be cut with tin snips a circular saw with a plywood blade or by scoring it with a knife and breaking it. Vinyl siding must never be applied directly to studs without sheathing.