How to Identify a Problem with Home Siding

Series Summary

House siding protects your home from wind, snow, and rain at a fraction of the cost of other building materials. It is extremely durable and easy to maintain or replace. Occasionally siding can become damaged or in the case of wood siding, it can rot. Rotten siding has to be treated as soon as possible, because the rot can continue to spread and cause mold to grow in your walls. Removing rotten siding and installing new siding is a relatively painless project that can be done with a few simple tools and some easy but expert instruction. If you think your siding is rotten or damaged and think it should be replaced, learn for free how to remove and replace your house siding from our construction expert. In this free online video series, learn from construction expert Jon Olson as he removes and installs new house siding to show you how to replace the siding on your home. Jon will teach you how to check your house siding, what tools and materials you will need to remove your house siding, how to remove trim board, how to remove house siding sheets, how to prepare studs for the new siding installation, how to install new siding on your house, how to caulk the seams on your house siding, how prime for paint, how to paint the siding on your house, how to install side and lower trim boards, how to seal the new siding on your house, how to touch up paint your house siding.

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Jon on behalf of Expert Village in this video clip we'll be identifying the problem. On our house we have an area toward the bottom where water has seeped up the siding and begun to rotted out. If we take a little bit closer look we can see here where the siding has become mushy and it's really pliable. When you buy it new it should be real hard it should be mushy at all. On this side we have an area that has already been patched and if we take a look here underneath the patch we can see where it is rotted all the way through. Someone just put a board over it to fix the problem. Now if the problem is not fixed the water will continue to seep into that siding and it will eventually rot out whatever is behind it. All the insulation will probably become moldy so this is a good thing that we are going to want to fix here. "