We have a stone chimney. How do we put our new siding up against it? The stone is not even.?

Question

We planned on using J channel but you see alot of house board between the J channel and stone. Any suggestions welcomed.

Answer 1

Like the first guy said, all you can really do is fit it or j channel it with caulk. Even if you cut to fit, you still should caulk to adhere it so it doesn't drift away from the chimney during expansion. Another option may be to remove the sheathing so siding can slide under the chimney. Or cut a notch in the stone the lenghth of the chimney to slide the siding under.

Answer 2

if you really want it to look nice each piece of siding will have to be scribed to the stone and once you get a good scribe fit back cut the scribe for an even better look it is time consuming but it will look real sharp try to avoid the answers that say get it close and just run a bead of chalking

Answer 3

It sounds like you have too much gap to caulk.  You need to scribe something to the chimney so you have a somewhat straight edge to work with.

So what do you scribe? I have two options for you.  I don't like either of them, but any of them will give you a better result than caulking.

1) An outside corner.  Cut off one side of the corner so you end up with a J channel with a wide flap on it.  Scribe the "flap" to the chimeney as close as you can.  You will need to attach a backer to the house next to the chimney to hold the "flap" even.  A piece of 2x4 ripped to the thickness of the inside of the J works nice.  Face nail the flap to the backer with trim nails, and you will still need caulk but not so much that it would be a problem.

2) Get a piece of PVC 1x4 or 5/4x4 (depending upon the depth of your J channel).  Scribe this to the chimney, making the piece about 3/4" wide at the narrowest point.  Install this next to the chimney, then install your J-channel agianst it.  Again you will need caulk, both between the PVC and the chimney and the PVC and the J.

I prefer option 1 for colors, option 2 for white.  Option 2 is easier (IMHO), but you have to paint the PVC for anything other than white, which is a drag.