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Flashback to the beginning of Summer.
You have a nice screened in back porch, a new Weber grill, a full tank of propane and some meat.
In all the excitement you melt the siding on your house.
Your name is Chad Whited.
Flash forward about six months and you’re finally getting around to repairing that siding. How do you do it?
Visit your crawl space to find the siding scraps your portentous previous-owners left behind.
They left you an old tire too. Sweet.
Okay… enough third person.
So after yanking the scraps of siding out from under our house, we realized that even the longest piece was not long enough to just swap out with our existing siding. Why would this have been awesome? Because there would have been no cutting involved and therefore no bloodshed.
Instead we had to cut out the piece of warped siding, and cut a piece of the new siding to cover the hole left behind.
There were a lot of nooks and crannies to cut out. The siding snaps together but had to be modified in order to overlap the existing pieces.
You also have to remove nails from the top of the siding that is tucked underneath the strip above it in order to get it off the house – and nail it back when you’re done.
Our cutting wasn’t the neatest, but it will be covered up the new siding so it’s no biggie. The blood on the siding though – that’s another story.
Once the replacement piece is cut properly, you can just snap it in over the hole. We used garden shears and a lot of brut strength to cut ours.
Finished product not too shabby.
Anyone else out there tackle a similar project? Any grillmasters turned handymen or women? Anyone want a tire?
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