Vinyl siding is common today on many households to cover brick or wood on the exterior of houses.
Drilling in outside house siding.
Vinyl siding is easy to penetrate but there are places you want to avoid within the profile of the siding.
For siding that has two sections called ship lap there is a rib running horizontally in the middle of the piece.
Trying to place the screw through that middle rib can be awkward.
Once the bit reaches the boxing beneath the siding stop.
However drilling through cement fiber siding goes better if you use a carbide drill bit as opposed to a regular steel drill bit.
Often times it is necessary to install something in the house and going through the vinyl siding is a must.
Switch to a drill bit 1 16 inch to 1 8 inch smaller than the diameter of screw you will install.
Cement fiber siding can be drilled while installed on a house or.
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Drill only through the exterior siding.
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