Vinyl siding install

It's time for me to put vinyl siding up and to remove some of the stuff that's bad on the house. All of the fascia needs to be replaced of course and the soffits as well. I'm going to leave the Masonite paneling siding on the house and just put the vinyl over it. From my experience in my understanding, it is impossible to take that stuff off it's just going to take so much labor and I really don't have the ability to do that. I asked several manufacturers including Masonite about this and they said it would be fine since it would be covered.

now with that said I would rather have Hardie Siding but I don't necessarily need to do that I just want the house to look good. Are there going to be any issues with this as far as going around windows and doors? Will I need anything special to make that work? I've been researching how to do the soffits and the fascia so I'm pretty comfortable in that area. The only place I'm going to leave the masonite siding exposed is underneath my carport where it doesn't get wet and it looks really nice right now. I will be painting it to match the color of the vinyl.

one issue I am going to have is that this house was my father's before I got it and he installed a back patio with walls around it. I have pulled out the siding from that area and I can see that the structure is attached directly to the house. It shouldn't be a problem for me to butt up the vinyl at that seam to make a corner right? And then on the inside I'll put the vinyl on that area to finish it out. I don't have any plans to remove the patio though I wish it was exposed on all sides.

 

Your question is so vague it's hard to answer. Going over your siding is fine, but you ought to put housewrap on it first. Vinyl siding isn't waterproof so if you have no housewrap it will rot the siding underneath eventually, such as under windows.

Put your housewrap on, then do your soffit, then do your siding.

 

Housewrap I can definitely do that, Wasn't in my budget but I will see about getting it.

Camera on my phone decided to die so I'm waiting on a new phone so I can take photos then

Bad photo of the patio

While this shows a bee hive, thats been removed. This is the corner that I was referring to.

 

Why do they build houses with siding that goes all the way to the ground? You will likely want to wrap the bottom siding with about 4" of trim coil or fascia cover, so as to keep your starter strip off the ground.

There are 3 ways to do an inside corner.
1). 2 j channels that overlap. Some guys omit one j channel since its covered by the other. Not good in driving rain.
2). Use an ISC... Inside corner channel.
3). Put a 2x2 in the corner, wrap it, then use a j channel on both sides of that..

 

It's just the back patio which was completely an addition. I was planning to wrap the bottom of that with metal flashing and then go after it with some silicone something heavy duty that's very much water resistant to try to keep that area dry. Looking at the frame and everything it doesn't look like it gets wet surprisingly. If it were me and I had the time and experience that would just take it down and not have the walls but we have bad mosquitoes.