Thank you for the tip! One of my top pieces of siding has been blowing off for months now and I wasn't sure how best to fix it. Hoping this does the trick finally!

Appreciate the tip, exactly what I needed to know

This is exactly what I needed to know for a small repair I'm attempting at our home. Thanks for the upload. Very helpful!

Awesome tip for reattaching the top row that the wind removed since the installer used smooth shank nails. Great presentation for us weekend warriors.

Thank you! This is just the video I needed

Awesome solution! I don't deal with a ton of vinyl, but when I do the top run is always a problem. Thanks!

A few little blobs in the bottom will work fine to save some silicone. Also keeps it from seaping out of the weep holes on bottom. My dad taught me this trick 20 yrs ago. Works well

Just wondering how expansion and contraction play into this method? I would never caulk a hook strip on vinyl, but if I were going to use this method, I would at least stich caulk it (2" caulking every 24", for example). I feel like the second the temperature changes the top of this wall is going to look like a sun chip.

I’m installing Vinyl cedar shake. CertainTeed recommends using the cornice molding at the top row which is wide enough to hide the nailing strip. The local ABC Supply says it’s discontinued and no longer available in my color, so I should just use the matching J-channel. The J-channel is no where near wide enough to cover the nailing strip. Doing it their way is forcing me rip the top row nailing strip off and face nail the shake into the sheathing. I’m concerned that with no room to expand and contract that top row will bow. I’m fairly creative, but this has me stumped. The shake pieces are three rows high by 48” wide. They lock together with 4 or 5 locking strips on the back and the face of the row below it. They lock when pressing them upwards, not pressing them in a downward direction so you’re fighting gravity as well. Not sure what to do but silicone might be the answer.

Great video man thanks a lot. I've got a few pieces that come off everything it gets windy and it's driving me nuts. I m going to go with this method

The notching has been an issue for me over twenty years. I used the under sill strip and it just doesn't hold. I'm hoping your work fixes my issue. I've got left over siding from the job and will try your method this summer My only question to this is expansion. Won't it be a problem with expansion and contraction in the heat and cold?

Appreciate the tip. Never messed with siding before as our house is mostly brick, but a storm came though and knocked my top piece of siding down (it’s dangling). I just might have to try this.

I'm very glad I found this video !! My problem is the last panel fit half way into the j-channel so I have about an inch run and this trick will work for that. And the piece will float with the last panel if I don't use under sill. Thanks

----------‐------------- agree , better than notched....I use another method besides silly-cone ...every 2f or so cut product to create a 'tab' 2.5in wide x 5/8" - 3/4" tall . heat product w/hand brake bend forward back onto self leaving 1/8" gap this acts as tension spring 'lock' inside of the finish strip....tried tested trued...thx..

not bad idea but I just use scrap top lock tab and about 3 inches of siding from cut scrap siding (top of siding) slide into j channel nail flat to wall then measure height needed to lock tab stuff into lock tab and bam it will not let go.... as long as you measure height right. if you really want to use silicone then put into scrap lock tab.

You can find the lowest point on the house, and make all your corners that size. Then install the siding parallel to the house, and you won't get this problem. The top row will not have angle, this gives your install a more polished look. The under sill piece should work better in this case!

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I either do that or put fascia nails in it under the bar. If it's really high, I put colored pole barn screws in it. It will NOT come off and is replaceable.

I used Dynaflex 230. I know it's not silicone, but I'm too lazy to go to Home Depot right now. I'll let you know how it holds in an update at a later time. I'm in Michigan, don't like the weather? Wait 15 minutes 😂 we get a lot of temperature swings.

thanks for the great video. I'm going to be siding a steel shipping container. how can I attach the siding since I can't nail it? ty for any assistance you can give.

Hmm, opinions are fine. Undersill inside of j-channel with punched tabs on the siding is how the products are engineered to work.

This might be OCD, but I usually get color match exterior paint in a small quart. Then just pilot bit small hole every 3 feet or so just under the J channel. Use small fascia trim nails and drive with a nail set. and then dab it with a q tip with the paint. Will never come off. The silicon is a great back up though. No one can notice the small nail heads. If they do, they are more OCD than me and my technique!

What about expansion that top piece won’t be able to move as well as the other siding

Thank you. I was in such a bind and this cleared everything up.

I like your tatooed ring not going to losing a finger. smart!

Great idea 👍. Someone will inevitably complain... But that will honestly just be because they are jealous they aren't doing what you're doing. Keep it up! Be safe brother 💪

Just had the top piece of my siding fall down from the second story. There was a FAT bead of silicone in it. 😂

Great tip

Whats a tube of silicone cost? Thats got to be way more expensive than using undersill and snap lock punches

This is a stupid question, but how do you cut the last piece of siding? I have almost 100' of perimeter, and the skill saw shatters the vinyl and yellow metal snips are excruciating for that amount of lineal footage.

I do that to on low pitch angles but like you said, it oozes out where the holes are. I always dab it like a I was pounding a nail but not were the holes are one less thing to clean up. I’m not hating at all just saying what I do, like you do, keep hustling

Do you silicone the top also or is it just inside the J?

Thanks!!

What about expansion and contraction. Your way is the fast way out. Have you ever just nailed the hell out of the top piece , the. Paint the nail heads. You will not be on my development .

We caulk in between the weep holes and throw some trim nails in the weep holes .

Can you install soffits on vinal siding without j

🙏🏿 thanks so much

Dont caulk the holes its a drain hole lol

Fuck yeah, thanks man!

Installation wrong. Sorry

Dead wrong. These are the ones that blow off. Undersill and the sl5 punch are the absolute best way. Been doing this 30 years. This is pure lazy with a waste of money

That's the only way I do it too

What a cobble job , i wouldn't want you siding my house...!