How To Add A Belly Band To Existing Lap Siding

This goes for fiber cement hardwood and masonite siding.

How to add a belly band to existing lap siding.

Using the select objects tool click to select the 3d molding line. Incorporating belly bands is a very traditional and cost effective way to personalize your new home siding. The goal was to get 2 3 inches above the inside of the siding. This is not ideal.

When the 3d molding line polyline is selected its name appears on the left side of the. But that appears to be asking a lot. Next i needed to install a new moisture vapor wrap over the exposed boards. There are wood damage at the lap siding and trim to the belly band trim to the deck caused by uncontrollable exterior moisture sources.

If you do decide to cover your lap siding in vinyl you ll need to first layer the existing lap siding with highly durable foam insulation and a moisture prevention barrier. Belly bands also referred to as beauty boards are a decorative trim piece that stretches horizontally across a home s facade. Navigate to build trim 3d molding line then click and drag a line where the belly band should be. A way to add a signature outline or focal point.

Remove all damaged wood and replace with new material to match as close as practical where necessary and perform a local repair where needed. Also consider a trim piece to transition from the wall up to the soffit. That is anything besides a clapboard lap siding what is the easiest way to do so and make the rendering of the material you intend the siding to be look the way it should. With the soffit placed use the select objects tool to select it and then click open object.

Remove and dispose of the existing. In the soffit specification dialog that displays. Place a soffit on the exterior side of a wall that you d like to see a belly band or trim piece on. Anyways i used an asphalt roofing paper.

If if somebody was going to install such a belly band it should have a bevel at the top i e it should be sloped at the top downward so that water which runs down the siding would more easily drop all the way to the ground. Creating a belly band manually create a cross section elevation of the side of the structure where you want the belly band to appear. Generally the best idea is to remove any existing siding from your exterior walls before installing the vinyl siding. Another question is it possible to add exterior trim finishes such as lp belly bands siding break transitions to the exterior surface of the wall.

Maintain your siding keep it painted and paint the bottom edges. Beauty boards are most often paired with horizontal lap siding traditional hardieplank. For some reason my house didn t have a moisture barrier under all its t1 11 siding only the lap siding on the front.