How To Repair The Corner Piece Of Aluminum Siding

All you need are replacements aluminum nails a pry bar a utility knife silicone.

How to repair the corner piece of aluminum siding.

Materials needed to repair aluminum siding. I m going to show you how to make an smooth aluminum siding corner for siding the is no longer manufactured. Draw a square around the damaged siding. Fit one new aluminum siding corner into position.

Use caution when working on. We saved the siding that was removed when we turned a window into a sliding glass door for our new deck if you don t have extra and can t find an exact match try taking a piece from the back of a shed or garage then replace it with something visually similar in the inconspicuous location. Scrap aluminum siding. Aluminum siding is installed in an interlocking pattern where the upper edge of each piece has a flange for nails which also has a lip like a backward upside down j that serves as the locking.

And since the siding appears to have been m. Ensure that you remove all of the pieces of the siding corners. This piece shows you how to repair siding along with corner caps. Step 3 add the new corner.

Corner caps are small pieces sometimes used instead of corner posts for aluminum siding. Making an aluminum siding corner. You cut a corner too sharply and knock into them with ladders the lawn mower garden hose bikes you name it. You can remove a piece of aluminum siding and patch in a new one when it s so badly damaged that it s beyond repair.

Corner edges of aluminum siding the end caps get banged into a lot. Over time aluminum siding can become battered and damaged by storms and bad weather conditions. Aluminum siding joins together much like vinyl so it s fairly easy to patch or replace a panel. You should then take your crow bar and pull the corner towards you.

End caps are very easy to replace. I bought a house a couple of months ago that had quite a few siding corners missing over 10. Pull out the nails holding in the siding edges nearest to the corner too so that all of the parts are moving freely.