Patching Wood Siding

Besides giving your home an aesthetically attractive look, wood siding also protects your home from water, wind, and insect damage. Consequently when you discover a damaged piece of wood siding, it is imperative that you fix it, and fix it right away.   Wood siding can become damaged over time due to weathering or from the occasional baseball hitting it. Pine siding has the tendency to curl and split due simply weather reasons. Cedar siding can also occasionally split.

 

Masonite siding is very susceptible to moisture. No matter the type of wood siding on your home, as soon as the siding becomes damaged, water can easily begin to enter the home by slipping down behind the damaged siding. This situation can quickly lead to rot and mold.

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Once you have created a small space underneath the damaged clapboard, use a sawzall to cut the nails on the backside of the clapboard.

 

After cutting the nails you should be able to remove the old damaged wood siding clapboard with your hands.

 

Installing the Wood Siding Patch

 

Once you have removed the old clapboard make sure there is nothing behind the upper clapboard, as you will be sliding a new clapboard up underneath it.

 

Measure and cut a piece of new wood siding for the patch. Then slide it up underneath the clapboard that sits just above the area you are working. Note you should add a bead of exterior caulk on the ends of the existing clapboards first.

 

Once the newly patched wood siding clapboard is in place, secure it with galvanized nails and your done.

 

Just add a coat or two of paint or stain and your exterior siding should look as good as new.

 

Patching Wood Siding Ebook - If you require more detailed instructions, and additional pictures for patching wood siding see HomeAdditionPlus.com's Patching Wood Siding Ebook. This Ebook provides very detailed instructions, along with pictures for each key step in the process of patching wood siding.