Cedar Siding Nails Popping

I had a carpenter use finish nails on all the exterior trim on a house and i had to go back after the paint was finished and renail using a siding gun ss nails.

Cedar siding nails popping.

The nails on the side i am painting now have the heads popping out of the siding. This article discusses the causes and cure of wood siding failures including when siding is installed over rigid foam insulation how to prevent siding cupping siding nail pops siding splitting siding separation or misalignment at butt joints and other wood clapboard and hardboard siding failures. Moisture and settling of the house is generally the. If wood soaks up moisture and then dries out it can warp or move.

Fill the old nail holes with wood filler. Wood siding failure diagnosis for siding installed over foam insulation. It is popping nails because they use smooth 45 degree paper corrugated nails to put it on. Finish nails for exterior cedar trim.

Just like losing a hubcap on your car there is no quicker way to lose elegance than to have a board warp away from your house and leave a budding forest of nail heads. Nails pop out basically because of the movement of the wood. If the wood or whatever wants to move what is holding it. The nail heads are very rusty and disintegrating.

On the outside of my house i have 7 year old 4 x 9 grooved 8 oc fiber cement panel siding 3 side of my house. What kinds of nails are for wood siding. Now i have a nail gun and 2 3 8 ring shank nails for siding to use to re secure the siding but need little advise. After you have removed the nails hammer ring shanked siding nails into the studs.