My house has a kind of lap siding similar to aluminum siding, but obviously made of steel (some rust). Unfortunately, it has a lame faux wood-grain texture on it.
I have two extra 3.25″ x 10″ penetrations from microfans from kitchen remodels. They are side by side and look very silly. Any thoughts on how to patch them up so it doesn’t look like total hack work?
The best I’ve come up with is to have some coil stock bent up so it will cover the affected area, then fasten it with rivets and caulk.
I could probably live with even two dummy vents side by side, but I need to move the location again! My microfan died, and lo and behold: the vent out the back is 2.5″ off the normal position.
Edit: I might yet try to get it up through the roof. I dunno. Either way, I want those two penetrations outta there.
Edited 8/17/2008 4:36 pm ET by Biff_Loman
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Biff, they make steele siding, but if I remember in your posting od picts of your house, it looked more like alum. which is also still being made. Call around , you should be able to find some.
Ok. I know diddly squat about siding. . . it would actually be possible to insert a new stick? I thought it locked together.
Yes it is possible, when you buy a piece, I will be happy to walk through the process.
Some folks claim they have been able to "unzip" AL and/or steel siding, but I'm skeptical. Unzipping is for vinyl.
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! --Miguel de Cervantes
Been doing it for years. Come over my way and I will be happy to show you!!!!!!!!!!
We do this all the time when doing blown in insulation. No issue at all although a bit more difficult and wears out the siding tools quicker. DanT
I've also unzipped all sorta aluminum and vinyl.
and for me ... a wonder bar works way better than the "zip tool" things.
it's all in the wrist.
and patching back in is all in a sharp/twisted blow from the meat of your palm.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
I do remember hitting the aluminum with the butt of my hand so I musta unzipped it at one time or another.
I have slightly different type of repair.
A friend of mine has a house with AL siding.
drops for TV and phone cables where attached with eye lag bolts through the siding and into what I think is the beaver board sheating on the house. during ice storms they where ripped out and torn the siding. and it looks like one was retached the same way at a different location and it pulled out.
That style of siding with the that spacing is not made any more.
so what I am going to do is to cut out a large square of the siding. The the sheathing. fill the hole in the sheathing with plywood. Then work some tar paper up under the siding to weather proof the area. Then mount a cedar board over that area up to the edge of the siding.
then mount some cedar strips that over lape the siding to form C channels. It will all be painted the same color as some wood trim by the windows.
Hopeing that it will look like a mounting block for lights.
Might give you some ideas.
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
Either patch will work fine.
You might be able to pilfer a couple pieces off the top of your gable and install a fake vent there.
I like that idea quite a bit.So: would either of ya like to 'splain to me how to get it unzipped/zipped? :-)
It's a secret we will let you in on when we vet you properly!>G<
I don't remember if I've ever done it midwall. I might have back in the mid 70s before vinyl was invented. If it was critical, I'd start from the top and work down. It's a good way to spend an afternoon.
Don't have too. The pieces have enough gige at the seams that there is enough to pull down and unlock.