Many house owners have learned to install siding with their own hands. Recently, this kind of facing work has become popular precisely in terms of self-implementation. However for the device of a reliable facade covering it is necessary to know the basic rules of installation, otherwise all forces will be spent in vain. The wide distribution of the material is due to the rapid and effective restoration of the appearance of the structure. For all this, we take into account how much siding costs. Its price can in fact be considered quite acceptable, since other types of decoration at low cost do not have such quality characteristics.
Before fixing the siding with your own hands, you need to take care of at least a minimal set of tools, which will include a hammer with a nail gun, metal scissors, a square, a hacksaw, a tape measure, a pencil, a level and a lace. The finishing of an apartment house with this material also provides for certain measures to protect the walls. However, before this, you will have to remove all the extra elements from the surface of the structure (platbands, peaks and the like). If you can not attach the panels directly to the facade, then you need to make a metal or wooden crate. It is desirable to carry it out even with ideally even walls to form a ventilated gap.
When the supporting structure is ready, you can fix the siding with your own hands. However, it is not as easy to perform a roofing as it might seem at first. First of all, all angles are output by level, after which the other rods are installed between them using a stretched rope. In the case of a wooden structure, small blocks can be used for leveling. In other situations, the crate is removed using suspensions fixed to the wall surface.
On the finished load-bearing structure, the siding is laid by hand. First, additional elements are installed: external and internal corners, starting bands and J-rails. Only then can you begin fixing the facing panels. They are screwed with screws or nails. Before assembling all elements of vinyl coating is recommended to stand for several hours in a warm place. When carrying out work in the winter, the expansion gaps between the components should be increased to a centimeter.
To install the siding with your own hands, you need to take into account some of the nuances that this kind of facing provides. When carrying out installation work, it is necessary to avoid strong tension of individual elements. If you neglect this, then after some time, the deformation of the coating may occur: the appearance of blisters, cracks and other defects. Eliminate such consequences will be very difficult. The last row of siding panels is installed only after the installation of the finishing rails, which are fixed close to the cornice. Cropped plates with special locks refuel in them.