Replacing lap siding with steel panels

[whateg01]

When I bought my house, I had to re-side the gable ends. I didn't have a lot of time to get it done and it seemed that Hardie siding was well liked. I don't like it.

So I am thinking I would like to go with steel siding. Vertical panels. I need to replace windows, so I figure I'll do that at the same time. I'm guessing there's a lot of little gotchas that one doesn't think of until middle of the job. How hard it is to put metal siding with vertical ribs on a normal stick built garage? Is it as simple as installing girts first?

 

[PopcornSutton]

I looked heavily into doing that, on my house. Replacing old masonite siding. Age and extent of the work changed my mind. However there are a few companies with lots of info on trim styles needed, corners, etc. Any time you work around something like a window you have trim pieces that receives the end of the panel, similar to a vinyl siding system. Since my house is typical wood studs, my plan would have been to horizontal firing on centers recommended by maker and that would be where the clips would be screwed into. It's doable but pricey.

 

[Scotto]

Last year I finished re-siding my whole house with steel siding (and gutters, fascia, etc). Vertical all the way around with steel horizontal in the gable ends. The vertical is very easy to do because it's self supporting on the bottom trim channel piece. I don't have any photos, but for the vertical it's just 2-3" wide wood furring strips spaced out about every 16". Then nail the siding onto that.
My siding is made by EDCO. I found a local supplier and they order it for me: https://www.edcoproducts.com/products/steel-siding.html

The biggest pain is probably cutting the metal, but I bought a metal nibbler to use as well as one of these blades for my circular saw: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042Z6WT2?tag=atomicindus08-20

EDCO has great directions for installation as well as videos. I couldn't find any other manufacturers that had the profile I wanted - it has a wood grain to it, which is unique.

If you have any questions, let me know!

 

[whateg01]

Last year I finished re-siding my whole house with steel siding (and gutters, fascia, etc). Vertical all the way around with steel horizontal in the gable ends. The vertical is very easy to do because it's self supporting on the bottom trim channel piece. I don't have any photos, but for the vertical it's just 2-3" wide wood furring strips spaced out about every 16". Then nail the siding onto that.
My siding is made by EDCO. I found a local supplier and they order it for me: https://www.edcoproducts.com/products/steel-siding.html

The biggest pain is probably cutting the metal, but I bought a metal nibbler to use as well as one of these blades for my circular saw: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042Z6WT2?tag=atomicindus08-20

EDCO has great directions for installation as well as videos. I couldn't find any other manufacturers that had the profile I wanted - it has a wood grain to it, which is unique.

If you have any questions, let me know!

Did you install girts for the vertical section? I'm assuming that's needed.

 

[whateg01]

I looked heavily into doing that, on my house. Replacing old masonite siding. Age and extent of the work changed my mind. However there are a few companies with lots of info on trim styles needed, corners, etc. Any time you work around something like a window you have trim pieces that receives the end of the panel, similar to a vinyl siding system. Since my house is typical wood studs, my plan would have been to horizontal firing on centers recommended by maker and that would be where the clips would be screwed into. It's doable but pricey.

The rest of the garage is old masonite still. I need to do it too. I need to do the roof and figured metal there made a lot of sense and then why not the rest

 

[PopcornSutton]

Scotto, EDCO was one of the better suppliers with detailed trim pieces. Nice looking job!

 

[Scotto]

Did you install girts for the vertical section? I'm assuming that's needed.

Yup, just 1x3" furring strips screwed to the wall studs

 

[Scotto]

Scotto, EDCO was one of the better suppliers with detailed trim pieces. Nice looking job!

Thank you - I'm never siding a house again myself, lol

 

[whateg01]

Yup, just 1x3" furring strips screwed to the wall studs

Cool. I have, iirc, 3/4 pink foam there now.

 

[PopcornSutton]

Thank you - I'm never siding a house again myself, lol

The main reason I talked myself out of it, it would have be me alone doing it. And vertical is the way to go.

 

[whateg01]

Yup, just 1x3" furring strips screwed to the wall studs

That doesn't look like the usual bulky corner trim. I'll have to look at their site and learn more.

 

[rockcrawler]

When our house was built in 2019/2020, we went with Vesta shiplap steel siding by Quality Edge. It has held up very well and the installation appeared to be fairly easy. They also sell a Tru Cedar product that offers overlap and board & batten profiles. There are a ton of color options to choose from. You can obtain all necessary trim pieces as well. As someone else mentioned, the attached channels will hold the siding which just pushes together and retained by screws.

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[reader2580]

Some cities ban the use of pole barn style siding on houses so I would check on that if you are planning on pole barn style siding. I don't think cities have any issue with the vertical metal siding like Scotto used.

My parents have vertical steel siding on the front installed by an ABC siding contractor. (The sides and rear have ABC steel lap siding.) It still looks great twenty years later. My first house had ABC steel lap siding on it. That was a nice product, and it didn't cost much more than the premium vinyl siding the builder was going to install.