How To Attach Conduit To Vinyl Siding

The proper way to run wiring on the exterior wall of a house.

How to attach conduit to vinyl siding.

Then flash the siding out over the trim board on the top for drainage and add j channel on the underside of the trim board. There are two ways to run electrical wiring on the exterior walls of a house or other structure. This is our most comprehensive. There are at least three alternative ways to do it.

Unfortunately whoever installed it did so that the condensate drips on a bay window below it. Unfortunately vinyl siding fades with age so an exact color match may be impossible. If you want to hang something from your vinyl siding don t even think about drilling through it to attach a hook to the sheathing. Aviation and tin snip start cutting at the top interlock and continue toward the bottom of the panel.

After the conduit is installed you would caulk around the conduit with siding and window caulking that is the same color as your vinyl siding. Utility knife score panel with knife then bend the vinyl back and forth until it snaps cleanly on the scored line. Reverse the blade in the saw for extra smooth cutting through the vinyl and to. The vinyl siding trim pieces aren t as critical.

An optional way to do it would be to install a mastermount mounting block onto the siding and drill the hole through the mounting cap. If you are installing the siding after the service conduit i would consider attaching trim board to the framing and attach the conduit to the trim board. Power saw bench or radial arm saw use a fine tooth blade with slow cutting movements. Vinyl siding is a popular economical building material.

One method is to run individual wires. This renders the siding vulnerable to moisture and voids the warranty even if you seal the hole. Not just another vinyl siding installation video. Be sure to save and reuse all the siding you remove.

Seems to me that it would make sense. If you have to add new siding position it in an obscure spot like the base of a wall or behind the garage. We have central air and a condensate pipe running from the attic out through the siding. Single gang electrical boxes will work but if you have two or more conduit sections connecting to one box buy double gang.

The male connectors on the ends of the pvc conduit take up quite a bit of room inside the box leaving little room for devices. I d like to add some pvc at a right angle to bypass the window and then run it down the wall to a splash block on the ground. The vinyl siding interlocks with itself to form a cohesive protective shell around the house. We cover how to move doors and windows and create a weather proof exterior.