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Summary: An important step to ensuring that your home's siding is properly installed is knowing how to treat damaged on your home. Learn more about how to repair or add siding to your home in this free video series.

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How to Treat Damaged Siding on a Home

Hi, this is Jon on behalf of Expert Village in this video clip we'll be treating the damaged area. If we take a look at everything that we taken off so far there is only a few areas that really need to addressed as far as treating them before we install our new material. The biggest area is located behind our gutter where that one bad patch job was. Now basically the moisture has gotten to the trim board and we just need to treat that before we continue. First I'm just going to take the back end of my hammer and scrape away any of the rotted out material. This is going to tell me how deep the damage is and if it's not too bad then it shouldn't be to hard to fix. I'm going to test a couple of areas just by taking the claw of my hammer and scraping it along it. If it starts to peel off that means it's started to rot, this is not peeling off so it looks pretty good. Now since the damaged area is only about a sixteen of an inch thick I went ahead and scraped it off and I'm going to paint some keels on it. This is going to prevent any mold or mildew from ever growing in that area. I'm just going to coat that on nice and thick. I went ahead and used keels on the entire area just in case that some point in the future water does get in it's less likely to mold or mildew.

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