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Wood Fence Installation Tips: Installing Posts and Pickets

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:45:51 +0000

Lowe’s home improvement expert, Mike Kraft, shows how to install wooden fence posts and pickets when building a new fence. First, set the posts. If you need to cut the fence post to length, you can cut it now. Before you put the post into the holes, add gravel for drainage. Then set the post in place, holding it with braces, and add cement two inches below the surface. After the concrete has dried, you can start adding the fence rails. Follow the land for any contours and adjust the rails as necessary. Attach the rails outside of the top, middle and bottom of each post. You can cut any excess rails once attached. After the rails are all set and attached, you can start putting on the fence pickets. Attach the boards with nails, making sure each picket is close the previous one. At the fence edges, overlap the picket edges to make sure that you have an even and clean corner. To learn more about wood fence installation or to find the printable instructions for this video, visit www.Lowes.com

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Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:47:20 +0000

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any suggestions on how to correct vinyl siding that contracts in winter and shows spacing of wood underneath.?

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:47:28 +0000

in colder weather notice a space of about 1/4″ between some of the slats – where you can see wood underneath. seems to close up in warmer weather. what can be done to alleviate this opening to protect the wood underneath? don’t want to remove siding if not needed.
was wondering if it would ok to pull siding together, to get a little overlap, and use some small nails to keep in place — would this okay to do??

Wood Rot Caused by Poor Siding

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 02:52:22 +0000

See how poor siding installation can cause serious wood rot to your home. For more info follow: www.mastermylist.com

Wood Sealer on Vinyl Siding?

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:46:14 +0000

I recently had my wood deck painted with Thompson’s Water Sealer, the brown-tinted kind. He accidentally got a few blotches of the sealer (long story) on my beige vinyl siding. What would work best to remove these smudges from the siding? Thanks!

is it ok to put vinyl siding on top of cedar siding? I am not sure if there is rotten wood underneath the?

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:46:51 +0000

cedar siding. But when getting an estimate aren’t they supposed to ask? or check it? The guy who gave me the estimate told me that you can put siding on top of the cedar siding which i think might be rotten underneath. is this one way for them to just do that job and get their money and let the whole thing rot and fall off?

Should I remove the old wood siding (some of it is beginning to rot) before puting on the new vinyl siding?

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:50:40 +0000

I have had two contractors tell me to remove it and one tell me to leave it. They suggested we left it so that the house did not re-settle and cause the sheetrock seams to crack. Does this frequently happen when removing the old siding?

Can vinyl siding be put over shiplap wood siding?

Sun, 29 May 2011 02:47:04 +0000

My wood is not holding paint to well, and I would like to have siding put on, but I need the insulation (foam board) added too, as it is an older home. I wonder about the wood on there now, not letting the new siding sit level. Just wondering!!
Thanks!

Vinyl siding over wood siding vapor barrier fiber board insulation?

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 02:47:52 +0000

Confused here. I live in northwestern PA, about 10 miles from Lake Erie. I have wood siding on an old house that has the paint badly peeling off. I’m going to put vinyl siding over this old wood siding. I’ve had different answers from different people about insulation and vapor barriers. The walls are not insulated. So I have old peeling paint on wood siding over uninsulated walls.

At some point I plan on insulating those walls. So a contractor I used for my roof suggested using celotex fiber board over the wood siding prior to putting on the vinyl. This would also help make the wall flat for putting on the vinyl as well as insulate the house. However, it’s not waterproof is that going to cause a vapor situation which gets absorbed into the fiber board?

A neighbor also has vinyl over his old wood siding, however he just has a foam vapor barrier.

Yet another has said I don’t need anything and that the wood siding is already insulat, just put up the siding.

Correct answer?

what’s the best way to remove Iron stains (hard water) from vinyl siding and painted wood?

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:50:35 +0000

I had a well put in to water my lawn it has a heavy iron content. stained some of my vinyl siding and painted decking any ideas on what works best to remove the stains