How To Attache Hook To The Siding

Anchor deck joists to the ledger with joist hangers filling each hole with galvanized joist hanger nails rated for pressure treated wood.

How to attache hook to the siding. For siding that has two sections called ship lap there is a rib running horizontally in the middle of the piece. Gap between the end of the ledger and the ends of siding and fill it with high quality exterior caulk to keep water from leaking behind the ends of the ledger. Then hang your decorations on the bottom of the hook. This hooks it onto the bottom of the siding.

Attach the siding to the wall with a nail in each section of the nail strip. A third alternative is to hang a light item from a suction cup attached to the siding but this only works if the siding is smooth and untextured. You may have to make a small notch on the lower lip of the slat for the wire to pass through. Add your starter sheet of siding.

Siding is intended to hang from the nails not to be nailed flat. The screw tends to wobble a great deal until it penetrates the thickened section. Slide the bottom of the siding into the footer being sure to leave enough space to allow for expansion. Slip the top of the hook underneath a piece of siding and wiggle it until it snaps into place.

Trying to place the screw through that middle rib can be awkward.