How to Replace a Vinyl Siding Corner Post

Having vinyl siding on your home gives you pretty much a maintenance free exterior. There are sometimes when vinyl siding repair is needed. This will cover repair to the outside vinyl corner post. This is a job that is not that difficult to the trained professional, and I have seen this repair done several different ways. This is the best and correct way to replace a vinyl siding corner so the repair will last.

This is considering your existing vinyl siding corner is still being manufactured today. A lot of manufactures have changed their siding designs over the years and have even discontinued some product lines, which would be a subject of a future article.

We start by taking a utility knife or snips to open up the existing corner.

We then cut back the old corner so as to leave a “J” channel type of effect on the wall.

We then cut back the new corners nail and first return leg. This give us a cap to snap over the old corner “J” that we left on the wall.

Snapping the new corner takes some time and it helps to have a “Zip” tool to help getting the new cap to lap over and cover the existing J piece.

After you do a couple of hundred of these you can pretty much do one in about an hour. You can click on any image to see a larger view.

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