I have a garage I have been building and I have ran into a problem with the vinyl siding locking in correctly in the top 2 or 3 rows. I don't have the problem anywhere else - just the rows near the under sill trim (utility trim I think it is called, too). The siding in the picture has been installed about a year and been through the Midwest's Winter and Summer seasons. I have attached pictures and will attempt to describe what is going on.
Siding 01.jpg is just to give you an idea of the building's size. 50 feet down the sidewall, 14 foot walls. This is the east side of the garage.
Siding 02.jpg you can begin to see how the edge of the siding is bending or peeling out. This is happening for about all of the overlaps in the siding on these tops rows and is more pronounced on the west side of the building.
The rest of the pictures are close ups of the overlaps. If you look at Siding 05.jpg you might be able to see where the bottom is not locking in to the section of siding right below. I can actually grab the piece that is sticking out, pull it, and the siding will start coming off pretty easily. I can't figure out why it is not locking in - the other end of this particular piece is locked in.
There is one other place where I noticed the problem. It is under window (and under another piece of undersill trim). About a row down from the undersill and there is an overlap where the corner did not lock in place properly.
The rest of the garage is just fine. I didn't change any of my techniques for these rows. I'm just wondering if I should have installed these last couple of rows differently - not sure why that would be.
Any help I can get would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Scott
Siding 01.jpg is just to give you an idea of the building's size. 50 feet down the sidewall, 14 foot walls. This is the east side of the garage.
Siding 02.jpg you can begin to see how the edge of the siding is bending or peeling out. This is happening for about all of the overlaps in the siding on these tops rows and is more pronounced on the west side of the building.
The rest of the pictures are close ups of the overlaps. If you look at Siding 05.jpg you might be able to see where the bottom is not locking in to the section of siding right below. I can actually grab the piece that is sticking out, pull it, and the siding will start coming off pretty easily. I can't figure out why it is not locking in - the other end of this particular piece is locked in.
There is one other place where I noticed the problem. It is under window (and under another piece of undersill trim). About a row down from the undersill and there is an overlap where the corner did not lock in place properly.
The rest of the garage is just fine. I didn't change any of my techniques for these rows. I'm just wondering if I should have installed these last couple of rows differently - not sure why that would be.
Any help I can get would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Scott
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