How To Fix a Hole in Siding [Video]

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How to Fix a Hole in Siding

Transcript provided by YouTube:

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hey kids so today i’m going to show you
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how to replace a piece of siding there
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actually was a hole here and i just
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replaced it so i’m going to show you i’m
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going to walk you through what i did
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uh but i do have a dad joke for you
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before we get started so
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a guy walks into a hardware store
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and he says i need a ladder to work on
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my siding and to get up on my roof
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so the guy says we have a six foot
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ladder that will work for your siding
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and an extension ladder that will get
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you up on your roof do you want them
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both
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and the guy says i’ll take the former
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now and the latter ladder later
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so anyway let’s get started
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okay so i have this hole here because so
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this um when we did our kitchen remodel
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this used to be our kitchen and our
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kitchen’s at the other side of the house
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now so this actually used to be a vent
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for
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our dishwasher
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and there used to be a
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a pipe coming out of here and running
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straight down so obviously this is
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what’s left and when we were redoing the
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inside i put a this is a two by four
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right inside there nice and solid but i
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obviously need to fix this and so um
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what i’m gonna have to do unfortunately
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it’s affecting this piece of siding and
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this piece of siding so this one’s going
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to be fairly easy because i’m just going
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to cut it right here and cut it right
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here and pop this out
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and then you know
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it probably got some paint that’s kind
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of sealed so you just take a knife and
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run it alongside there so that it
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doesn’t uh pop this out too and kind of
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make a mess we want it to be nice and
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clean
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and then we’ll have to kind of pry
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things out and we’ll pop that one out
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and then with this one because it’s kind
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of here and it’s part of with the window
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here i don’t want my my groove to be
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right here i probably want it like right
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here somewhere over here where it’s
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staggered
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okay so i’ll probably cut it like here
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and just replace this piece and then but
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i’m going to replace this whole piece
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and then we don’t have to mess with this
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at all
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all right so looks like i got a nail
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here i’m just going to pull that out
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okay
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let’s see here i might even be able to
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use this piece right here
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um i’ll cut it off here take that and
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then end up putting it here uh may as
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well because i think that’s enough of a
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piece to fit there so i just use a knife
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so we’re just going to kind of cut away
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here
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it’s kind of tight so
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you get what i’m doing though i’m
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basically just going to run a nice
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straight line there right all right so
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hopefully you can see now now
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i can
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you probably can’t exactly see that but
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you know what i’m doing right i’m trying
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to i’m trying to get that free from the
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paint or if there was caulk two that was
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holding it together
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okay
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so that’s what we’re trying to do here
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okay
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and then we’ll end up caulking uh the
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new stuff later so
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and it’ll be fine and painted later
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okay
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basically we’re trying to mess with this
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and this so i just want to make sure
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it’s free good
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okay
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okay
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and then we’ll go here
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so we’re going to remove that whole
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thing
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okay
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like that we’re just going to want to
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try to pry that out of there
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okay
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i can see where the nail is here to it
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so if i can get up underneath there
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let’s see here
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okay
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okay
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you see that nail
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right there
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that just popped loose so now i can yank
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that out
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[Music]
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to help set it free let’s see
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much easier now
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and there was that nail right here that
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i already removed
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okay
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there we go
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kind of set it free
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okay and
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so actually i can go ahead and cut this
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now i’m gonna cut it
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uh you know what remember how i was
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gonna use that other piece i got plenty
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of siding from when they when we did my
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remodel on the house so it’s no big deal
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i’m not going to be able to do that now
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because that that split right there
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right
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i have to go ahead and cut
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cut that
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so that it can free up because we’re
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going to need to shove that other piece
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up underneath there right so let’s go
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ahead and
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just cut aside
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and cut the side i don’t need that i’m
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going to try not to go ahead and mess
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with that
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let’s do that
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okay
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now
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okay we’re just trying to get that away
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from there
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enough to where we’ll be able to slide
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the next one up underneath there okay
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i might be able to pop that out down
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okay
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there’s a nail right there
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i want to remove that so that this thing
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can slide
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up underneath there
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and i can see a nail right here too
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okay all right so here’s what i’m going
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to do now
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i’m going to draw
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a line right here
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all right so here’s my level and so now
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this makes it good so i’m not
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wonky like this i can actually make sure
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that i’m level
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by checking the bubble here and i’m
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going to get as close as i can over to
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this thing over to this where the hole
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is
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okay and let’s make it level
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okay that looks good right there
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so that’s where i’m going to make my
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line right here because i want to remove
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this i don’t want to remove that i’m
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going to leave that alone okay
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uh so
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and i’m going to show you the tool i’m
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going to use
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this is called an oscillating multi-tool
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i will do a tool tuesday on this because
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it’s such a great tool and so what what
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this does
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you know there’s different ways you
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could do this you could score this with
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a knife and go over and over again be
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really careful with it especially since
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you’re only doing one
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um
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or
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you could use a you know
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just a regular saw and kind of work on
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it and be really careful but this will
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make quick work of it because what
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happens is this blade right here just
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goes back and forth really fast okay so
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i’m just going to be able to go like
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this put it here and work it down
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okay but what i want to do
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is you got to be careful because i don’t
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want to go into
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the siding behind me it’s not going to
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be a huge deal but right down here we
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definitely don’t want to do that right
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because then you’ll see that um and
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really like i said overkill it’s
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probably not that big a deal because we
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can just run a bit of caulk there but
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what we can do is we can kind of pull
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this away a little bit and then
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stick something underneath there a piece
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of metal or something to stop the the
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blade from going all the way through so
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that’s how i’m gonna do it just to show
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you all right so i just got this piece
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of real thin sheet metal okay um i have
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scraps all over the place stuff like
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this i’m sure you can
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understand that um if you ever
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have been in a
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somebody’s shop they have stuff that’s
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just hanging around so i’m just going to
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do that just to protect it and then
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again this line doesn’t need to be
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perfect but what you could do i mean
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there’s a couple things you could do you
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could put something up here as your
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guide and then just have that thing just
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go right down or
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you can just freehand it let’s see how
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that goes i’m just going to try to
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freehand it
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okay
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and they make these oscillating tools um
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cordless
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so
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but i happen to have a
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outlet right here so i’m just going to
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go ahead and do this here
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[Music]
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so
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[Music]
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there you go
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and then you can see
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uh
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what you got underneath here right and
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so that so as we
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as we rebuild this now you want to
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always do siding
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from bottom to top right um so normally
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if this wasn’t here and you were just
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doing your own siding obviously start
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from the bottom and just layer it and
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layer it and layer it but now we’re
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going to have to kind of work with this
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we’re going to put a piece of siding in
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here
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if you can see my home
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this is built in the 70s and it’s kind
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of a strange thing that they’ve done
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here this is like a
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insulation of some sort i put the
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backing in here of this wood and then
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put a lot of insulation on the inside
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when we were doing our remodel but this
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is a little bit hokey
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but this is covered too and we live in a
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relatively mild climate the real way to
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do this was probably to pull all this
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out and actually replace it with
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with plywood but we’re not going to do
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that right so um
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anyway so we probably do want to put
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something in here
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just
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ah i mean i don’t know that it would
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hurt if i end up just putting siding and
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putting siding nobody’s ever gonna know
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that’s there
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but i will
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so
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i gotta see what i have that i can maybe
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just fill that gap with uh
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so let me go see what i can come up with
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all right so here’s what i’m going to do
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i found a piece of wood that was able to
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cut down to this size it’s a little bit
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bigger than what i what i need there
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which is perfect so
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then i’m just going to go ahead and draw
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a line around it
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make it nice and clean like that and
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let’s see here
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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so there we go
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put a couple of
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nails in there
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i need to get these measurements i’m
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gonna go ahead and
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shoot this in
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okay we’re gonna put that one in there
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okay
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that looks pretty good and these little
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gaps here we’re just going to fill those
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in with caulk so that’s no big deal
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okay and the last piece
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right here remember we pried this up
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this one up so that we could slide this
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in the back
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okay
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okay
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all right you know what there’s a one
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nail here that i’m fighting so um
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because
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we want the same reveal here right and
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this is not quite the same this is a
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little smaller this is a little bigger
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so we’re gonna have to remove that nail
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okay
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so i’ve been fighting with this for a
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little bit so i just want to be
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transparent with you there was a nail
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here that i was fighting with trying to
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get it up there and then there’s
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actually a nail here and
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these side cutters work great for this
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for removing these so i had to kind of
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get inside there
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and
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keep working at it and finally i’m
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pulling this thing out okay
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because i was fighting that and that’s
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why that thing wouldn’t slide up in
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there so we should be good now
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okay so now we’re just sliding it up
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inside
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i was actually
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i put a notch in here trying to work
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around it see that i just cut a little
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notch because you’re not going to see it
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i was going to try to do that but it
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just i still was fighting it so i just
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went ahead and
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got that nail out so now
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now we’re good to go
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you can just see what your reveal is
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here this is four and a half
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and if you need to tap this if for some
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reason you need to tap it you want to
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get a separate block
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and put it here and then just tap on it
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you don’t want to tap on your siding
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right because then you’ll you’ll leave
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marks in your siding but if you put a
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block of wood here
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and you just tap on it that’ll keep you
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from from making those marks right so
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all right so i think we’re about good
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yep looks good let’s go ahead and
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put her in
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[Music]
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all right so now all you’ll do is just
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go back through it here and these
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fill up in those with caulk and then we
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actually have some spare paint we had
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our
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house painted uh a couple years ago we
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ended up getting with some getting some
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extra paint so i’m just gonna paint over
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this even though this actually is our
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this was painted and it was removed from
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our backyard so you want to make sure
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that it looks nice and clean and there
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we go
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all right so i hope that was helpful for
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you you know it might be a little bit
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different on your house you might have
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vinyl siding this is cedar siding uh the
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sighting might be running a different
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way but you get the general idea of what
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you’re looking at in order to in order
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to repair a hole if you have it on in
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your sighting so
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thanks for watching and god bless you

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