How To Match Old Style Wood Siding

Line up the ends and using the old piece as a guide mark the new clapboard with a utility knife.

How to match old style wood siding. She can put your sample side by side to stock siding to get you a matching piece. Remove all damaged siding down to the bare studs. For more information on vapor retarders see section 5. Show the clerk the piece of siding and tell her the brand and manufacturer.

Score the cut line with the utility knife guided by a square. Here s how to make sure you have a patch that s a perfect match before you begin. Measure the butt edge thickness and the widths of the exposed faces of a few courses on the wall. If you want everything to match replace everything.

Bringing a length of old siding with you to the lumber yard is the best way to match grains and styles. Otherwise you will always be chasing trying to immediately match the existing as other pieces of siding degrade in the future. Beveled cedar siding can be installed over sheathing with a vapor retarder such as tyvek or asphalt saturated felt. Painting sounds like an option but in this case we re talking about painting old wood some of which is reaching the end of its lifecycle.

Choosing nails and siding. The clapboard you use for a patch should blend in seamlessly with your existing siding. Add an inch to the face width to account for the overlap of the piece above. This can easily be done with a rabbet kit for a router.

Scoring prevents the wood from chipping when you cut it with a handsaw cut the new piece of siding on the waste side of the line.