installing vinyl siding around an electrical service on an older house
 

I am going to in stall Vinyl siding to my house which is clad with cedar shakes and i am leaving the shakes on and puting the vinyl over them .How do i get around the Electrical service and the mast holding the wires coming into the house with the vinyl siding? JOHN

Hard saying, not seeing, but if you can surround your problem area w/ 1xwhatever
, then you can run your J-channel around that.

Thanks for your quick respose. Do you mean to put say 1x3 around the mast and service box and then put the j channel the 1x3?

Just run j channel around the box and up both sides of the mast.

Thanks for your reply Is that what most siders do and does it look good when finished

It could be as simple as the other guy said. I avoid doing vinyl siding like the plague, though I've done acres of all the other kinds. Sometimes there's a wire or a pipe going into the wall in so that it's impossible to notch the siding gracefully in a way that comes out decent. That's when I do what I said. I 'trim' around it with wood a little thicker than the siding, then butt the siding neatly to that.