How To Cut Vinyl Siding On A House

If you re cutting dark vinyl siding use chalk or light colored tape to mark the line you want to cut.

How to cut vinyl siding on a house.

Pros draw the cut line on the back of the plank rather than the front for two reasons. Use a carpenter s square to draw the line straight. 8 install the top row of siding. Lie a strip of vinyl siding on a flat work table.

First lay a strip of vinyl siding onto a flat and clean working table. Put a carpenter s square. 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. One is to avoid having part of the line visible after you make the cut.

Mark the line you want to cut on the siding with a pencil. When crosscutting vinyl siding all you need is an accurate measurement of the length of the plank and a speed square to draw an accurate perpendicular cut line. Not just any circular saw blade will do. Make the line as dark as possible so it s visible when you re cutting it.

Using a circular saw is the first method that you can use to cut vinyl siding. Soffit and fascia starting with. Follow these steps on how to cut vinyl siding with a pair of tin snips step 1. Make the vertical cuts on the siding panel with a saw and make the horizontal cut with a utility knife then snap out the piece.

Slide the end of the siding off the table until the place where you plan to cut it is just past the edge of the table. You ll need a fine tooth plywood saw blade to do this correctly. With a pencil straightedge and measuring tape you need to draw a straight vertical line at which you want to cut the strip of vinyl siding into.