How To Install Window Boxes On Vinyl Siding

Hi! Now that we take told you how to make the window boxes and how to make full them with flowers we are going to teach you the last footstep in the procedure, how to adhere them to the business firm. Nosotros researched a ton to figure out how to do this simply we never really found a good way four houses (like ours) with vinyl siding. Everything nosotros saw/read we needed to remove the siding which we didn't want to exercise. Nosotros were adamant to effigy out a different manner of doing information technology and nosotros finally did. It really wasn't that hard and allow me tell you… Those boxes are not going ANYWHERE!

Materials You'll Need (to adhere two window boxes):

iv ten 3/8″x3.5″ Galvanized hex-head lag screws
4 x three/8″ galvanized washers
White Caulk

Tools Y'all'll Demand:

Stud Finder
Power Drill
11/32″ drill chip
i/two″ drill chip
Socket wrench with 9/sixteen″ hex head
Speed Square
Caulk Gun

What To Do:

Step 1: Locate the studs on the house using a stud finder. This function was the trickiest and I was honestly a little unsure as to whether I was going to find the studs and could actually attach the weight of the boxes without ripping the siding off the house. We did not have a goose egg tool to remove the vinyl siding so we could non get behind it to get a better look and effigy out where the studs were so nosotros had to make exercise with the tools we had. We could not attach our window boxes to the jack studs (the studs on the outer edge of the window frame) because our box was as well short and didn't attain to those so we had to detect the studs under the bottom seal of the window. The shape and size of the vinyl fabricated it a niggling tricky to employ the stud finder as well as the fact that we were searching through multiple layers of building cloth to discover them. We used the Deep Browse fashion of the stud finder and swiped information technology back and forth along the vinyl underneath the window probably close to twenty times because nosotros got multiple false returns or just nothing at all. We made sure we were pressing the stud finder firmly against the siding but not too hard and had to make certain it was a perfectly straight line across. After about 15-20 times we were pretty confident nosotros found the 2 studs under each window and marked their location with a pencil.

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Step 2: Drill the pilot holes in the house. After locating the studs and marking them, we placed two marks where each stud was. One mark was 1.v inches below the bottom of the window frame, and another 3 inches below that mark. We used the 1/2″ drill bit because it is slightly bigger than the 3/viii″ lag screws nosotros were going to use and would give united states some wiggle room with the vinyl siding. Nosotros drilled enough and then that nosotros were through the vinyl, weatherproofing wrap and just started to become through the wood after that but non all the way through. We then changed out to the eleven/32″ drill bit (just slightly smaller than the lag screws) and finished drilling that all the way through, which luckily was the stud. We did this for all 4 marks.

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Step 3: Drill holes in the window boxes. This step involves translating the holes we simply drilled into the house and making sure they will line upwards with the holes on the dorsum of the boxes. We took the boxes and held them under the window so that the acme was even with the bottom of the window frame and marked on the back side of the box where the studs would exist. From there we fabricated a marking aligned with the studs 1.5 inches from the elevation of the box and another 3 inches below that mark then that they would line up the holes nosotros just drilled into the firm. Nosotros used the 11/32″ drill flake to drill through the back side of the window boxes where the marks were.

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Footstep four: Make sure your measurements are correct. Put the lag screws through the holes in your box and line them upwards with the holes you fabricated in the firm to make sure all of the measurements are correct earlier caulking the holes.

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Stride 5: Caulk the holes in the business firm. Caulk the holes in the wall to go on them waterproof and seal off the vinyl.

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Step vi: Attach the boxes to the firm. Lastly, we put the lag screws through the holes in the window boxes with the washers on the within of the box, lined up the screws with the holes in the wall and used the 9/xvi″ socket wrench to ratchet the screws into the side of the house. Nosotros tightened the screws downwardly. Non too tight so that it squished the vinyl siding only tight plenty to brand sure information technology is secured against the business firm. That box isn't going ANYWHERE!

Step 7: Footstep back and relish your new project!

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