Cedar Siding Nails Popping

Popped nails weather can warp wood siding and cause nails to pop out making siding look unsightly.

Cedar siding nails popping. The nail heads are very rusty and disintegrating. Wood siding failure diagnosis for siding installed over foam insulation. Moisture and settling of the house is generally the. If wood soaks up moisture and then dries out it can warp or move.

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. 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. 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. 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. It is popping nails because they use smooth 45 degree paper corrugated nails to put it on. Finish nails for exterior cedar trim.

Nails pop out basically because of the movement of the wood. After you have removed the nails hammer ring shanked siding nails into the studs. Don t use finish nails for exterior work. Fill the old nail holes with wood filler.