How To Install Window Flower Boxes On Vinyl Siding

Hi! Now that nosotros accept told yous how to make the window boxes and how to make full them with flowers we are going to teach you the final step in the process, how to adhere them to the business firm. Nosotros researched a ton to figure out how to do this but nosotros never really found a skillful way iv houses (similar ours) with vinyl siding. Everything we saw/read we needed to remove the siding which we didn't want to do. We were adamant to figure out a different way of doing it and we finally did. Information technology really wasn't that hard and let me tell y'all… Those boxes are not going ANYWHERE!

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

4 x iii/eight″x3.5″ Galvanized hex-head lag screws
4 10 3/eight″ galvanized washers
White Caulk

Tools You'll Need:

Stud Finder
Power Drill
11/32″ drill chip
ane/2″ drill bit
Socket wrench with nine/16″ hex head
Speed Square
Caulk Gun

What To Exercise:

Pace 1: Locate the studs on the house using a stud finder. This part was the trickiest and I was honestly a little unsure equally to whether I was going to find the studs and could really attach the weight of the boxes without ripping the siding off the firm. We did not have a zero tool to remove the vinyl siding so nosotros could not get behind it to get a better look and figure out where the studs were so we had to make exercise with the tools nosotros 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 besides brusk and didn't achieve to those so we had to detect the studs under the lesser seal of the window. The shape and size of the vinyl made it a little tricky to use the stud finder equally well as the fact that we were searching through multiple layers of edifice textile to find them. We used the Deep Scan fashion of the stud finder and swiped it back and forth along the vinyl underneath the window probably close to 20 times because we got multiple false returns or just null at all. We made sure we were pressing the stud finder firmly confronting the siding merely not too hard and had to make sure it was a perfectly straight line beyond. Afterward about 15-twenty times we were pretty confident nosotros found the 2 studs under each window and marked their location with a pencil.

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Pace ii: Drill the pilot holes in the business firm. After locating the studs and marking them, we placed two marks where each stud was. One mark was 1.5 inches below the lesser of the window frame, and another three inches below that mark. We used the 1/two″ drill bit because information technology is slightly bigger than the 3/viii″ lag screws we were going to employ and would requite us some wiggle room with the vinyl siding. We drilled enough so that we were through the vinyl, weatherproofing wrap and just started to go through the wood after that but not all the manner through. We and so changed out to the eleven/32″ drill bit (simply 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 nosotros just drilled into the house and making sure they will line upwards with the holes on the back of the boxes. We took the boxes and held them nether the window so that the superlative was even with the lesser of the window frame and marked on the back side of the box where the studs would exist. From at that place we made a marker aligned with the studs i.five inches from the top of the box and another 3 inches below that marking so that they would line upward the holes nosotros just drilled into the house. Nosotros used the xi/32″ drill bit to drill through the back side of the window boxes where the marks were.

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Step iv: Make sure your measurements are right. Put the lag screws through the holes in your box and line them up with the holes yous fabricated in the house to make sure all of the measurements are right earlier caulking the holes.

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Step v: Caulk the holes in the house. Caulk the holes in the wall to keep 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 inside of the box, lined up the screws with the holes in the wall and used the nine/16″ socket wrench to ratchet the screws into the side of the house. We tightened the screws down. Non likewise tight so that it squished the vinyl siding but tight enough to brand sure it is secured against the house. That box isn't going ANYWHERE!

Step 7: Stride back and relish your new projection!

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