Cutting Vinyl Siding In Place

You also usually have to make at least one longitudinal cut to trim the last piece of siding that you install on a wall.

Cutting vinyl siding in place.

Pay close attention to the area where the top row of siding meets the soffits. Fit a circular saw with a fine toothed plywood cutting blade. If the piece of the vinyl siding is thick guide the blade of the utility knife along the straightedge. When installing vinyl siding you have to make accurate end cuts to fit the siding tightly against trim or seamlessly inside a j channel.

Slip the curved end of a vinyl siding zip tool into the seam between two horizontally interlocking runs of siding that you need to remove. Measure the length of the section of wall you re covering with siding. You should position the siding so that the cutting line is hanging off the edge for obvious reasons. The most common approach here is to install sill trim at the soffits rip down the top course of siding and crimp the siding so the sill trim holds it in place.

Use measuring tape to measure how much siding you need to cut off. Use your measuring tape to determine where you want to cut your vinyl siding then mark the siding on its underside with a marker. For the smoothest cuts put the blade in backward. Lie a strip of vinyl siding on a flat work table.

The total you get is how much you ll need to cut off the siding. Then subtract that amount from the length of the piece of siding you re going to cut. Lay the vinyl siding on a flat table or workbench. We are going to score on the siding instead of cutting so that you don t have to apply much pressure here.

Put on safety goggles. Use the straightedge as the guide and place it along the draw line that you want to cut the vinyl siding into step 3.