If you live in a house for many years, and the outer shell of the facade has decayed, then first you have to choose the material for its lining, and then complete the installation. There are many materials for cladding buildings: lining, brick, clinker thermal panels, natural stone, siding and others. In this article we will talk about how to sheathe a house with siding with your own hands, but first we’ll talk about why you should choose this particular facing material.
Benefits
- Vinyl siding is cheap, its color scheme is diverse.
- Its installation is quite simple, it can be mounted on the old casing.
- The material is resistant to precipitation.
- The service life is up to 50 years, during this time does not require painting and repair.
- Withstands temperatures from -60 to +60 ° C.
- After installation does not require special care, just rinse with a stream of water.
Payment
In order to finish the siding with your own hands without losing material, you need to make a calculation, calculating the area of one panel. To do this, multiply its length by width. And in order to find out the required amount of siding for the entire cladding, we first find out the area of the walls of the house, and after that we divide the obtained value by the square of one panel. Subtract the area of windows and doors from the result.
Preparatory work
Before you sew a house with siding yourself, you need to carry out a number of actions: remove the trim, shutters, external window sills, drainpipes, decorative elements decorating the house, as well as carefully inspect the old cladding and, if there are rotten places or climbing plants, remove them. Fill cracks with mounting foam.
Lathing and insulation
For the frame we use a profile (galvanized), which we fasten vertically with suspensions at a distance of 0.3-0.4 m from each other. And on the top and bottom of the wall it should be mounted horizontally. Using a plumb line and level, set the profile, strengthen several cords and install the entire crate on them. If the house is wooden, and you want to insulate the walls, then you should make waterproofing, which must be fixed under the frame. For this we use vapor-tight moisture-proof membranes. The insulation is attached to the crate, and the film is on top (on the profile). To do this, you need to make a counter-lattice of bars, which we fix with screws on the profile.
Mounting
We turn to the answer to the question "how to sheathe a house with siding with your own hands." To do this, install the fittings, but before that, we consider the nuances of installing the facing material:
- when heated, the siding expands, so between the panels it is necessary to leave a gap of 5-6 mm;
- so that a gap does not appear in winter, installation is carried out with an overlap (up to 2 cm);
- if the cladding of the house is carried out in the cold season, then the gaps should be left up to 12 mm;
- so that the hardware can move, the screws can not be twisted to the limit (a gap of up to 2 mm), they are also installed in the middle of the fasteners (otherwise, waves will appear on the facade in the heat and cracks in the winter).
How to decorate a house with siding with your own hands?
- We install vertical elements, corners and profiles. To do this, fix the top point with a self-tapping screw, then fasten the rest. We mount accessories at a distance of 0.25 m from each other. When joining the corners of the lower element, we cut off the cheek (2.5 cm) and make 2 cm overlap on the upper part, while a gap of 5-6 mm remains behind.
- We fasten the starting strips, and check the correctness of their installation with a level and a rope. We also install with gaps.
- We fix the near-window trims with a finishing rail.
- We proceed to install the panels from the bottom from the start strip, after that we mount the second strip, do not forget to make gaps, and also do not screw the screws (1-2 mm), since all panels must be installed freely.
- If the width of the panels is slightly less than the width of the wall, then it is necessary to increase them in length, for this we attach the joint profile to the wall parallel to one of the corners of the house.
- You can also increase the overlap, then each subsequent panel overlaps the previous one by 2-3 cm, and we place the joints in a checkerboard pattern.
- In narrow openings of the panel we do not nail (on top) so as not to complicate the installation of the next strip (the previous siding is unbent), and then we fix it.
- When lapping, insert the lock part of the panel to be installed (it has holes) into the longitudinal edge (it is bent) of the lower (attached) strip and only then screw the upper one with screws.
Conclusion
In this publication, we tried to answer the question: "How to sheathe a house with siding with your own hands?" If you follow the above tips and understand all the nuances, then you will easily wall the walls of the house.