Cutting Wood Siding For Window Trim

Touch up the divided hardie trim boards before trimming them to your window.

Cutting wood siding for window trim.

How to repair old rotting wood trim or siding. When it comes to choosing your fasteners don t. Nail the thick part of the trim to the framing with 2 in. Cut away the extra siding.

How to repair old rotting wood trim or siding. Place the top piece and hold the trim 3 16 in. Whenever possible we used additional material to spread out the pressure at the fulcrum. Make sure that a drip cap is installed first over the window before going for the hardie siding.

Use tin snips to cut a length of j molding 2 inches longer than the width of the window. Fasten pvc trim with stainless steel screws or hot dipped siding nails. This is the waste that will be cut out to make the rabbet. Make a vertical mark where the end of the stool touches the jamb.

Away from the jamb at both ends and along the base of the window casing. You will see the trims lay nice and flat. Step 3 check the fit then cut to length. Cut a 1 inch notch out of the j molding at both ends by scoring it with a utility knife across its top side.

Face nail trims using 2 inch 16 gauge finish nails after every 16 inches apart. Keeping the back corner against the sill trim slide the end of the upside down stool against the jamb. Cut pvc trim boards with the same hand and power tools that you use for. Brads spaced about every 6 in.

Connect the two marks with a square and make an x in the area defined by the lines. Cutting and installing plastic trim cut with carbide tipped saw blades and bits. Using a circular saw set to the right depth just a hair shallower than our siding to ensure we didn t break through the house wrap or wall and a brace to ensure a straight cut we cut away the extra siding from around our window frame.