vinyl siding vertical seam alignment
I am helping to side a house for Habitat of Humanity. The siding will be vinyl. The house is 30′ x 26′ (could be a little bigger). Vertical seams should not align unless separated by 2/3 courses.
What would be the recommended horizontal lengths to cut the siding at to minimize waste and seams?
NK handyman
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Use the balance of the previous course to start the next course.
In theory, you would only have one piece of scrap left.
Creates semi random splices. Until you get a balance piece that is too small to start with and go back to a full starting piece. This will start the repeat all over.
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Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City
Of course that may not work out well if the width of the wall is something really close to, say, 1.5 times the length of a piece. But in that case the thing to do is to trade pieces with a different wall.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
Edited 1/19/2009 9:36 pm by DanH
-Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City
before you stat, if you have enough authority over the crew, try to find the visual points of the house as you would walk up to it as a guest and start running siding form the furthest end back towards you. This will put the seams/laps facing away from the visitor.
Yeah, basically install the siding from back to front -- from the most distant point in your field of vision to the closest.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
What john7g said is a good technique. Makes for a more professional job.
In the past I've started with a full piece. On top of that use a 9' piece to start, then 6', and finish up with 3'. Then start over again with a full piece and repeat the process.
Makes a nice visual where the seams are all lined up at a slant.
interesting--
on the rare occasions when I vinyl something---i deliberately AVOID doing that because I do NOT want that interesting "visual".
I want the fewest seams,period- and the ones that I must have- I want to be widely scattered and random so that repeating patterns do NOT appear-- because the eye picks up those patterns quite easily
stephen
I think the uniformity of Rons suggestion is less noticable to most people. Spread the joints out over more than 3 rows and the conisitancy will hide easier than if they're scattered kind a willy-nilly.
Yeah, I prefer random too, but other people seem to prefer the regular stair-step pattern. It's a personal preference sort of thing, I guess.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith