How To Install Vinyl Siding Window Trim

To expedite installing vinyl siding on your home or for large projects you may want to call a professional vinyl siding company.

How to install vinyl siding window trim. Then slide the tool horizontally along the lock to release it. Not all windows require this but if yours does call a professional for this step. Remember to leave about a inch for expansion. Lift the unlocked siding to expose the nailing hem of the siding piece below.

If your horizontal cut was made at a wider portion of the siding s profile it will fit firmly inside the j channel. Slide the zip tool under the butt edge of the siding hook the locking edge and pull down. Pry off the vinyl siding and j channel from around the perimeter of the window. Install the tops first then the sides and then the bottoms of the window surrounds.

Alternatively vinyl siding can also be trimmed by scoring them with a utility knife at the point at which you wish them to be trimmed and then snapping the piece off along the scoreline. Lock the notched siding into place and inspect its fit into the j channel. Fashioning metal window trim with a brake is complicated for a do it yourselfer. Each piece that is adjacent to the window should slide neatly into the j channel that you have installed.

Along the tops install j channel trim with horizontal siding and base trim with vertical siding. Notch the vinyl windowsill with tin snips to fit the existing windowsill. Draw a line on the wall along the top of each siding course before you pull the nails. Cut the trim so it is two channel widths longer than the opening s width.