Patching Cedar Siding

Basic maintenance repair and painting of cedar wood siding using gardner flex n fill and behr premium plus exterior paint.

Patching cedar siding.

Measure the butt edge thickness and the widths of the exposed faces of a few courses on the wall. Here s how to make sure you have a patch that s a perfect match before you begin. The clapboard you use for a patch should blend in seamlessly with your existing siding. Scoring prevents the wood from chipping when you cut it.

Prevent water from splashing on the siding by installing gutters or repairing leaky ones. Once the paint starts to peel costs can quickly grow as sanding out walls is not cheap let alone replacing warped twisted and cracked siding panels. When you replace these boards make sure you have good flashing along the joint. Choosing nails and siding.

Add new siding we used cedar siding to replace the rotted clapboards. Work the putty down into the holes and smear the putty over the top and edges of the defect. Cedar wood siding should be painted or stained every 6 years or sooner depending on the level of uv exposure in order to reduce the costs of repainting. First to help avoid any future insect damage back prime the cedar with oil based primer image 1.

Step 1 inspect the siding scrutinize the siding and look for shakes that have come slack from the nails or ones that have cracked and split down the focal point. Also adjust lawn sprinklers so they don t hit the siding. Line up the ends and using the old piece as a guide mark the new clapboard with a utility knife. Repairing minor defects in cedar siding step 1 use a putty knife to apply exterior wood putty to smaller cracks or holes in siding.

Make sure you do this on a day with sunny weather so that the paint dries quickly after you finish. Where siding meets a roof it will rot if the siding touches the shingles. Place a full length piece of the damaged siding on the face of the replacement. These are the shingles that you will eliminate and replace with a new shingle.

Clear away any leftover sanding dust from the wall then paint over the filled area in the same shade as the surrounding cedar. Fill cracks in painted siding with either exterior acrylic latex caulk caulk or with epoxy wood filler which is a better choice. Before the siding can go up 1x4 starter strips of treated lumber should be nailed to the sill where the lower most course of siding will go up image 2. Add an inch to the face width to account for the overlap of the piece above.

If the siding is unpainted stick with epoxy filler it s.