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Vinyl siding on exterior of house after flood?
Posted on 9/7/16 at 7:28 am
Posted on 9/7/16 at 7:28 am
So my girlfriends house flooded over 5ft. She had an older house with wood siding covered with vinyl siding and I was wondering if we should remove the vinyl from the house so it can dry? I do a moisture test lower than 5ft on the inside of the house against the wood siding and its still 100% which tells me there is water trapped or not drying. Anyone know for sure?
This post was edited on 9/7/16 at 7:29 am
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Posted on 9/7/16 at 7:49 am to KLSU
I would pull the vinyl siding off.
Reason you probably want to let the wood structural panel (wood siding, Masonite, etc) to dry. You may need to replace the wood structural panel because it probably has mold and delaminated.
Reason you probably want to let the wood structural panel (wood siding, Masonite, etc) to dry. You may need to replace the wood structural panel because it probably has mold and delaminated.
This post was edited on 9/7/16 at 7:51 am
Posted on 9/7/16 at 7:53 am to johnnyrocket
I'm thinking the same even though not looking forward to it. lol
Posted on 9/7/16 at 8:41 am to KLSU
you need to pull it of but can technically reuse it
Posted on 9/7/16 at 8:49 am to KLSU
My MIL has vinyl siding on her condo. The outside walls instead of having plywood had some sort of sheet rock material with the black visquine looking stuff. We pulled the vinyl siding off, cut the sheet rock 2' up and replace with home wrap and plywood, then re used the vinyl siding. Just be careful taking the siding off as it breaks easily.
Posted on 9/7/16 at 8:51 am to KLSU
Build a concrete house
Posted on 9/7/16 at 9:02 am to LSUEEAlum
Her house has the original pine wood siding. The thick wood siding that was on older houses. On the inside of the house it still looks very good just worried about it drying and the outside that I can't see because of the siding..
Posted on 9/7/16 at 9:03 am to AUCE05
Tear it off, remediate, then put hardie plank.
I'd tear everything to studs then go from there. Replacing with hardie is easy. Get a pneumatic roofing nail gun (rent or harbor freight) and nail it back.
I'd tear everything to studs then go from there. Replacing with hardie is easy. Get a pneumatic roofing nail gun (rent or harbor freight) and nail it back.
Posted on 9/7/16 at 9:35 am to KLSU
Number the pieces as you remove!!
Posted on 9/7/16 at 9:50 am to AUCE05
Log cabin
Posted on 10/24/17 at 1:12 pm to BoogerEater
We have rough cedar siding that has been through 3 floods now in 23 years (two in the past two years, the woods gone soft but insurance doesn't want to replace). So we were shopping for options last year and thought Hardie would be the best option but a Hardie siding dealer actually told us NOT to do Hardiplank for our situation.
They said the cuts and nail holes penetrate the laminate (especially if the installer isn't an expert at preventing that) and if not handled carefully enough, flexing also weakens the laminate, and cracks/holes/cuts in the laminate allow water to soak into the fiberboard. They said it would literally crumble if it sits in a flood.
They said the cuts and nail holes penetrate the laminate (especially if the installer isn't an expert at preventing that) and if not handled carefully enough, flexing also weakens the laminate, and cracks/holes/cuts in the laminate allow water to soak into the fiberboard. They said it would literally crumble if it sits in a flood.
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