Installing Exterior Window Trim Over Siding

Customers see siding jobs both old and new shedding paint and are afraid of the maintenance.

Installing exterior window trim over siding. No one wants to maintain wood siding and trim these days. These will be easy to trim to exactly the right length at the end. If your home has vinyl siding and you d like to add vinyl window trim you will. In particular installing capping over your window frames reinforces the seal between the windows and the wall which protects you from leaks and water damage.

And my dad notched the front door trim around the new threshold so it would run all the way down to the porch floor. How to install exterior trim around a window installing exterior window trim. That one long straight line of trim made the siding install super easy. The old homes are often just not maintained and look bad and the new homes with wood siding are peeling paint because of improper installation no rain screen gap and inferior materials.

Bed the trim frame to the flange with a good quality adhesive caulk before fastening it in place with stainless steel nails or screws. Capping your home s exterior trim gives you a chance to improve the look and durability of wooden pieces without opting for a total replacement. If you ve used silva s stand off screw method mark where the screws are located and drive fasteners near those locations to keep from distorting the trim while driving the fasteners. Exterior window trim on vinyl siding.

Once you ve selected your style of casing use measuring tape to figure out the correct. And that s how we got our exterior ready for some siding.