Marking A Starter Course For Siding

Lock a short piece of siding into the gable starter course i e the last course before the gable starts.

Marking a starter course for siding.

4 position the top of the starter course along the chalk line use a straight edge on bottom of shingles if uniform straight edge is desired. Remove the short piece and cut along the pencil line as a pattern for the gable angle cuts. It protects the sheathing from rain snow and pests. Mark the slope with a pencil on the short piece of siding.

Below the top of the foundation but the lower the vinyl siding is installed the better. Apply j channel along the top and bottom of the walls to receive the siding panels. Install each course following your pencil marks while checking for level along the way. Maibec recommends that the bottom edge of the starter course extend down at least an inch past the top of the foundation.

Mark an arrow on the end of the stick where you began measuring. Lap siding for the starter course. Pay attention to the placement of the starter course. For 6 inch siding that s 4 1 2 inches.

You have two options here you can make your own or you may be able to find acceptable prefabricated third party starter strips available for purchase. The inside layer is called the starter course and because it will be covered it can be made with inexpensive lower grade shingles. You can make your own fiber cement starter strip by ripping a piece of hardieplank lap siding into 1 1 4 inch strips. After the first shingle has been placed on the roof set the second starter shingle next to it.

Do any of your suppliers sell a production starter strip for lap siding hardie nichiha or certainteed. Install the bottom j channel illustration 1a. Hold a second piece of siding against the j channel at the slope of the gable. Hardieplank lap siding requires a starter strip beneath the first course.

Top and bottom j channel snap a base line 1 above the low part of the house. To ensure that the courses are evenly spaced make a swing stick from a straight 1x3 at least 6 feet long. Unlike the preparation for horizontal siding do not install a starter strip for vertical siding. Butt the edges together instead of overlapping them.

Use the wider starter strip the bottom of the starter strip the part the bottom panel hooks on to should be at least 1 in. Starting at either end make a series of marks along one edge each equal to the clapboard s exposure to the weather. I m talking about a small 1 4 5 16 thick piece to keep the first course from being flat to the sheathing. Up from the bottom edge of the starter strip.

Now you can install a 3 8 x 1 inch starter strip of siding to give the first course the proper angle. If the wall sheathing laps over the foundation as it often does in new construction the starter shingles only need to extend a small distance past the sheathing. Continuing with the starter shingles.