Cutting Vinyl Siding With A Circular Saw

You can also use tin snips to make crosscuts.

Cutting vinyl siding with a circular saw.

Make crosscuts on vinyl siding using a circular saw but you should install a vinyl cutting blade to minimize chip out. Use tin snips or a rotary tool to make curved cuts. Mark the area to cut and slowly feed the blade into the siding. Once again this contributes to giving the vinyl siding a clean cut.

Avoid using other kinds of saw blades or you may not get a clean cut. The cuts can be done by hand with a set of tin snips but squeezing the snips 5 6 times per cut can get really tiring and leaves a somewhat jagged. Go for one with fine small teeth of the same size. Circular saw fit a circular saw with a fine toothed plywood cutting blade.

You should choose the specific blade for the job. You can find a fine tooth plywood saw blade online or at your local home improvement store. Install a plywood blade backward onto a circular saw. Not all kinds of circular saws can be used to cut vinyl siding.

Lay the vinyl siding on a flat table or workbench. These include miter saws chop saws table saws and handheld circular saws. When making longitudinal cuts score with a knife and break along the score line. You should position the siding so that the cutting line is hanging off the edge for obvious reasons.

A fine tooth plywood saw blade will give you the best results when cutting vinyl siding with a circular saw. Failing to do this can result in your circular saw cutting into the workbench or table beneath the siding itself. If you need to cut vinyl strips lengthwise making much longer cuts use a utility knife for the best control. I recently replaced the old weathered aluminum siding on my house with maintenance free vinyl siding.

This tool is for cutting a strip of vinyl siding into smaller pieces with vertical short cuts.