Attach Hose Reel To Vinyl Siding

The problem is my house has vinyl siding.

Attach hose reel to vinyl siding.

I d like to attach an automatic water hose reel to the side of my house. 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. How to install a hose reel on the side of a house. Then i drilled a 1 4.

Manufactured from strong uv resistant makrolon polymer siding saver provides the versatility of plastic with the strength of steel. Works great doesn t damage the house. Go and buy 4 x saddle clips that will clamp onto the hose reel and also some butterfly bolts. 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.

This renders the siding vulnerable to moisture and voids the warranty even if you seal the hole. There are at least three alternative ways to do it. That way you wont ruin your sideing for a hose reel that will likely fall apart in a year. 4x4 posts 2ft deep spaced slightly wider than the width of the hose reel.

Trying to place the screw through that middle rib can be awkward. Vinyl siding moves a lot when it heats and cools throughout the year. If you put a screw right through the vinyl siding it will prevent the siding from moving and therefore cause it to buckle. I have a concrete block house so i planted two 4 ft.

Measure the length of the short hose that is attached to the hose reel. I then attached a 2x10 piece of lumber to the posts drilled holes to mount the reel painted it all and mounted the reel. Pre drill flag pole bracket to mounting braket this allows you the ability to pre mark the siding. The saddle clips have a hole on either side and will hold the hose reef firmly against the siding of.

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. The screw tends to wobble a great deal until it. The connector on the short hose twists onto the threaded end of the hose. For siding that has two sections called ship lap there is a rib running horizontally in the middle of the piece.

So just using wood anchors will probably cause the siding to get flattened ugly and wrong.