Cedar Siding Nails Popping

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Cedar siding nails popping.

Just like losing a hubcap on your car there is no quicker way to lose elegance than to have a board warp away from your house and leave a budding forest of nail heads. Now i have a nail gun and 2 3 8 ring shank nails for siding to use to re secure the siding but need little advise. Moisture and settling of the house is generally the. Fill the old nail holes with wood filler.

Nails pop out basically because of the movement of the wood. If the wood or whatever wants to move what is holding it. On the outside of my house i have 7 year old 4 x 9 grooved 8 oc fiber cement panel siding 3 side of my house. The nails on the side i am painting now have the heads popping out of the siding.

Wood siding failure diagnosis for siding installed over foam insulation. Popped nails weather can warp wood siding and cause nails to pop out making siding look unsightly. Don t use finish nails for exterior work. After you have removed the nails hammer ring shanked siding nails into the studs.

If wood soaks up moisture and then dries out it can warp or move. This article discusses the causes and cure of wood siding failures including when siding is installed over rigid foam insulation how to prevent siding cupping siding nail pops siding splitting siding separation or misalignment at butt joints and other wood clapboard and hardboard siding failures. I had a carpenter use finish nails on all the exterior trim on a house and i had to go back after the paint was finished and renail using a siding gun ss nails. Whether you install clapboard t1 11 cedar shakes or board and batten siding on your house you can attach it with either nails or screws.