How To Replace Damaged Cedar Shake Siding

Damaged panel cut a large rectangle out of the damaged panel.

How to replace damaged cedar shake siding.

Siding removal set the stepladder close to the house. Step 4 cut flashing. Pry the nails out of the nail hem of the damaged panel. Make sure that both materials are fastened in position.

Cut or chisel through the sides of the panel and remove the lower half. Step 3 remove the damaged cedar. Normally one can shift the shingle back and forth using a blade or a wide metallic instrument while pulling it away from the boxing. Force open the damaged cedar shake by inserting a blade beneath the bottom edge of the shingle.

Step 4 sample the old cedar. If it is necessary replace damaged or spoiled sheathing. Slide the hacksaw blade saw underneath the siding and use it to saw the exposed nail shafts. Lets make this easy if we were to put siding on two identical houses side by side one with james hardie.

A slater s ripper is a specialized tool you can slide under the siding and use to hook and pull the nails out. Normally a cedar shake will have 2 nails fastening it. If there was ever a perfect time to replace your old cedar siding with james hardie siding or even vinyl siding it is when you are looking to spend thousands of dollars to repair a product that is going to continue costing money. Carefully put up the fascia board and fix fiber cement shake panels in place.

Flip the panel over and cut 1 8 off the side locking tabs. Take the replacement board fit it in place image 2 and nail it in with a hammer using galvanized nails. Check the condition of the sheathing in place. Nail straight down on the replacement board in order to hit studs.

Once all the nails are removed from the adjoining board the damaged one should just pull out. Remove the freed piece of damaged cedar siding. A hacksaw blade saw is a narrow toothed saw blade mounted to a handle. Preparing the new panel cut off all top locking tabs.

If you plan to remove only damaged pieces of siding and replace them with new siding you still. Start at the top of the wall and work down.