Attach Hose Reel To Vinyl Siding

Or just get a 5 or 6 ft piece of treated 4x4 or 4x6 and put it in the ground about 3 feet then attach your reel to it.

Attach hose reel to vinyl siding.

Vinyl siding moves a lot when it heats and cools throughout the year. The patented siding saver mounting bracket helps you quickly and easily mount anything requiring a flat surface to exterior vinyl siding aluminum siding and even wood and clapboard. I then attached a 2x10 piece of lumber to the posts drilled holes to mount the reel painted it all and mounted the reel. I d like to attach an automatic water hose reel to the side of my house.

The problem is my house has vinyl siding. Works great doesn t damage the house. If you need more width to the post just get a 4x8 or nail a cross piece of 2x6 to it before you hang the reel. 4x4 posts 2ft deep spaced slightly wider than the width of the hose reel.

That way you wont ruin your sideing for a hose reel that will likely fall apart in a year. How to install a hose reel on the side of a house. This renders the siding vulnerable to moisture and voids the warranty even if you seal the hole. Pre drill flag pole bracket to mounting braket this allows you the ability to pre mark the siding.

The screw tends to wobble a great deal until it. If you want to hang something from your vinyl siding don t even think about drilling through it to attach a hook to the sheathing. If you put a screw right through the vinyl siding it will prevent the siding from moving and therefore cause it to buckle. The saddle clips have a hole on either side and will hold the hose reef firmly against the siding of.

So just using wood anchors will probably cause the siding to get flattened ugly and wrong. Go and buy 4 x saddle clips that will clamp onto the hose reel and also some butterfly bolts. There are at least three alternative ways to do it. The connector on the short hose twists onto the threaded end of the hose.

Trying to place the screw through that middle rib can be awkward. Vinyl siding is easy to penetrate but there are places you want to avoid within the profile of the siding. Measure the length of the short hose that is attached to the hose reel. Then i drilled a 1 4.

Measure over from the faucet to a location on the side of the house where you want to mount the hose.