How To Trim Out Doors With Siding

For even more personality and charm add a decorative corner or crown molding above the door or window.

How to trim out doors with siding.

Do not miter corner joints of band boards fascia corner trim etc. The effect creates an exterior that s rich and inviting as well as a little different. Before installing door and window trim first caulk around the openings to create a moisture and air proof seal. Certainteed window and door trim puts out the welcome mat creating a first impression with lasting effect.

Inspect the window trim for dry rot. Now that the door is prepped the trim can be added. So we used the miter saw to cut them and the same type of nails to install them. Along the tops install j channel trim with horizontal siding and base trim with vertical siding.

Scrape the side of the window trim next to the siding and the immediate edge of the lap siding with a paint scraper to remove old caulk and loose paint. See diagram 2e 4a. Where edges of trim meet siding material windows doors or other finished openings leave a minimum 3 16 inch 5 mm space to allow for proper sealing. Instruction on how to install exterior 2x4 trim around a new or old window.

Things to note when adding trim. Trim needs to be installed so water can drain correctly. Provide increased spacing along the trim if specified by the siding application instructions. Mark the perimeter of the opening for the new door onto the vinyl siding with a carpenter s pencil in the location where the door will go.

If you are widening an existing doorway to install a. Install the tops first then the sides and then the bottoms of the window surrounds. The trim we used was the same type of material as our siding. If we installed the trim after the siding we would have had to caulk a ton to fill in for the different levels the layered siding creates.

We used pressure treated 2 x 4 s for the trim around the windows and the doorway and then we had to create trim corners for both the inside and the outside corners like the ones in the picture above. Lineal trim can help unify and accent a home s exterior adding a design element that can be both subtle and distinctive.