How To Install Trim On Siding

If you used sheathing on the shed walls the first thing you should do is add house wrap.

How to install trim on siding. You may not know where to begin. J trim installs on steel sided buildings such as pole barns and commercial buildings as the finish trim to steel siding. To expedite installing vinyl siding on your home or for large projects you may want to call a professional vinyl siding company. Miter or cut tabs at the ends.

Nail the trim every 12 inches on center. You may ask if your vinyl siding can handle this depending upon the weight. Featured videos from twofeetfirst installing the siding. The most common approach here is to install sill trim at the soffits rip down the top course of siding and crimp the siding so the sill trim holds it in place.

You will likely need to remove a trim ring before beginning. Cut the trim so it is two channel widths longer than the opening s width. Fashioning metal window trim with a brake is complicated for a do it yourselfer. Install j channels at doors and windows and under roof eaves and rakes.

Let s talk about the door. Purchase your mounting block based on the design and color of your vinyl siding. Now that the siding is added we need to talk about the door before adding the trim. Similar to j channel used with vinyl siding j trim is nailed to the building s framing at the top edge and along any interior corner seams to hide the raw edges of the siding.

This works fine most of the time but always add a few blobs of caulking inside the bottom lip of the top course for extra security. Learn how to finish and cut the ends of base trim for metal siding.