Old wood-sided houses sometimes need a face-lift.
Wood siding is a traditional building material that provides your house with protection from the elements. Over time, exposure to weather can take its toll on your wood siding. Also, trends change and you may decide you want to replace wood siding with a different siding product. Removing wood siding involves using a pry bar to loosen boards. Then the exposed nails are either cut or pulled, and the siding boards are pulled free of the house structure.
Instructions
1. Use your pry bar to loosen the first board. Depending on the type of siding, you may want to start at the top or the bottom of the house. With an overlapped type of siding you will want to work from the top down, while with an interlocking siding you may find easier access to the lower edge of the bottom board.
Slide your pry bar under the exposed seam of the board near the nails, and pry the bar up until the nails are accessible.
2. Use your slater's ripper to pull nails, or a hack saw blade saw to cut the shafts. A slater's ripper is a hooked tool that is slid underneath the siding to grab and pull out the nails. A hack saw blade saw is a thin, toothed blade on a handle. The blade can be slid underneath the siding to cut away the nail shafts. Pull or cut all the nails holding the siding to the underlying structure of the house.
3. Continue working your way up or down, prying the boards and pulling or cutting the nails. Keep going until you have removed all the wooden siding from the house.
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