It's understandable, plus there are people, you put my siding on and now my toilet leaks, know when to count your losses with bad customers. Keep up the good work, great informative videos.
if it's up high and not visible, use coated/plain stainless trim nails and nail right through the face about every 3 to 4 feet. if you want to use a sleeve style nail holder driver, you can tuck them up under j channel or whatever else they put at the top. mostly seen plain stainless, color matched nails or they just slam white nails in and don't care, but always good stainless that wont rust and leave streaks! oh I have also seen aluminum siding nails with the heads trimmed off used, but they some times start leaving streaks. you can also cover the heads with color matched caulking, but that generally only blends in very well on "new" siding, then again most are happy just to have the siding back and not fall off again, but obviously show them and explain the color match wont be perfect. I'm no siding guy, but I've pulled and put lots of it back over the years, for electric, plumbing, windows, roofing and all sorts of other repairs. in the late 1990's and forward, there was a bunch of bad siders doing one to four rows of skipping nails or they'd not reposition ladders/scaffolding/planks and only nail where they could reach. there were many homes that had whole sides blown off and it was always above ground level to second story and above.
@@thehandymanexperience226 the typical three reasons. The top rip comes loose. Not enough trim nails in the ripped down peace. The rip down peace is too short to stay in the j. Chanel. Or the hole peace below the ripped down peace doesn't have enough siding nails. Win trim nailing threw the weep hole. With a pee shooter. Angel the nail so it goes threw the hole threw the peace underneath and into the wall
Absolutely, take your losses they’re lessons learned! I’ve done the same with co workers that borrow money and conveniently forget to pay you back it’s cheaper to let ‘em keep the $10 they’ll never ask again 🤣 great vid love your honesty 👍👍
There are some tools that help with siding repairs like that. Grekos siding gauges are amazing for lp or hardie plank siding you can cut some plywood and make some if nessary. That makes it so you can solo do large peices. Dasko shingle ripper is another one that allows you to rip the nails behind the courses and even renail it. That will work on cedar shake or any lap siding hardie or not. The last tool is cheaper than either of thoes but is very useful and would get you by in a pinch by itself. It's called a roofing snake don't buy a knockoff pac tool is the original. It let's you nail behind cources of lp hardie or the intended purpose roof singles. If you ate broke no money you can stick a flatbar behind and hammer it senseless. Your arm will be numb and you may damage some siding bit it can work. At the very least get the roofing snake and consider the other tools. Ezarc makes super long ossilating tool blades but you will burn one or two per repair thr most costly of all these options and it wrecks the paint/finish on wood. I've done many a house in cedar shake and some of thoes tools are life savers including the shingle ripper (which I use for lp and hardie). Siding can be good money as long as you have the right tools and can do it quickly. The issue comes when there's rot behind it and get bladed for a existing issue. Good luck 🤞.
Yea but I guess I didn't explain good enough there was wood going midway through the house and there was a top piece to cap off siding so pretty much just think it's the top piece if siding going to the house. My bad bro!
Grow that hair into a bun. Top the drip with some Birkenstocks, Versace paisley shirt, Gucci man purse and a splash of Creed Aventus. Hang out where the rich people are and youll attract a whole new clientele. Sure theyre demanding, but theyll pay 3 to 5 times what slumlords pay. My guy got a hook from a high-end realtor. One client gifted him $2500 of luggage, because he'd admired theirs-and he rarely travels.
Vinyl siding ? Usually 12 feet, but sometimes 10 & rarely 16. If there's a horizontal board that splits upper & lower siding around the house that's called a band board
Unfortunately the best solution is taking down with siding removal tool. Not easy , may break siding may need to remove section all the way to bottom course. Re nail everything in the proper flange with proper siding nailing recconendations. If they don't wanna pay for that extensive of a project than you can't guarantee your work. If you want bubble gum repair , OK cool , no warranty.
I'm with you and I already do the same. In some certain situations I just give them their money back with an explanation that keeps me honorable and I'm done with that headache. I don't have to end up feeling bad and I know nothing bad can be said against me. Self preservation 😁
