The Siding Guy House

This video was mins long before I sped it up I am forced to be more efficient while working alone Normally a helper would grab pieces and tools as needed and bring it to where the installer is .

This video shows how I do a basic mitre (top right corner) You have to think like water for the overlaps If it’s a flat face, then I like to add another bend for strength in the mitre and it keeps .

This video shows a snapshot of how I bend window trims and prep the mitres ahead of time I added a tape to my brake so that roll out coil to the exact length I need for the trims, then use a scrap p .

This is the only spot of my house on both sides of the shakes where I replaced my year old siding I ripped the old stuff right off so that I had full access to inside and outside corners to get th .

This is my thought process in cutting that funny piece There were no roof pitches on the plans so I quickly used my speed square to find the pitch You can use any ratio of to draw the angle, f .

This is how I typically J around anything Think of this as a big window I usually don’t use a tape measure In this case I grabbed a bunch of my scrap J-channel cut offs and just held it up - eye .

This is a quick and easy way to find the angle of a gable if you don’t know it - speed square and a level, or a speed square with a built in level There are many ways to find the roof pitch, this is .

This is a follow-up video on cutting soffit from yesterday’s post Someone asked me to make a video on how I set up my cutting jig The set up is super quick and easy thanks to my Dewalt mitre saw s .

There were a lot of questions regarding my DIY track saw I posted a couple of days ago Here’s another version I made a couple of years ago I just glued pieces of acrylic together using my aluminum .

The total length of this video was just under mins before it was sped up It’s a longer video because I wanted to share the entire process without it being too fast Many people will have a cutti .

Someone recently asked me how I replace outside corner posts This is how I do it - many people have accused me of being a hack” for doing it this way This is how the Vinyl Siding Institute teache .

Posting a bit later today because I took on job an hour out of town This is the first time I’ve had my wife help me with a soffit job in years I wanted to get it done in a day and knew that it wo .