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71PA_Highboy

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My house was built in 2006 and I need to fix some spots of damaged / missing vinyl siding.

What is the easiest way to match the existing siding? I realize sun fade is not easy to match, but what about the pattern / texture.


TIA!
 
71PA_Highboy said:
My house was built in 2006 and I need to fix some spots of damaged / missing vinyl siding.

What is the easiest way to match the existing siding? I realize sun fade is not easy to match, but what about the pattern / texture.


TIA!
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You need to remove a full piece. There should be codes on the backside. If your home was built in a tract home development... good luck.

Best bet is to take that code to a real supply yard and ask the old guy in the back. If you are lucky you will have a siding or roofing company that stockpiles leftovers just incase. Lol.

If not take the profile and a piece back to the supply house. Get the profile and color as close as possible and get ready to buy a full box.
 
The other thing that I have done for customers, is to pull panels from hard to see areas that have faded about the same and installed the new in those areas. But you pay more.
 
That said along as you don't need scaffolding to get some where it's pretty easy to replace vinyl, use a vinyl siding hook tool. Common name around here would be a zipper. Push zipper into the lock area of siding, catch hook, pull down and start sliding. Like a zipper.

Once you have the above piece loose from the piece you want to replace you can then loosen the bottom of the piece you are pulling.

What I like to do is get the panel that removing loose from the top and bottom. Then force it off its nails, leaving the existing nails in the wall.

Then take new piece, force over nails, using zipper, relock.
 
Bogus One said:
Take it all off
Haul to dump
Install proper siding
Profit?

That's all I got :homer:
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And that's all you need. Vinyl siding can fuck right off. I pulled all mine off and never looked back. Of course, the PO had it installed over the existing cedar trim that would have been fine with fresh paint, and it was white with powder blue trim :barf:
 
Shouldn't be hard to match up. We make extrusion dies for 3 separate siding companies. They are all the same profile. When I needed to replace some on my house, I just color matched and bought a box from HD. Matched the 1988 stuff close enough.
 
bdkw1 said:
Shouldn't be hard to match up. We make extrusion dies for 3 separate siding companies. They are all the same profile. When I needed to replace some on my house, I just color matched and bought a box from HD. Matched the 1988 stuff close enough.
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They most certainly are not the same profile. Take a piece to a supply yard. Start there.
 
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