this little 5.99 tool has become one of my most favored tools in the bag. I use it when I mount speakers to the side of the house when I cant drop the line through the wall, if im at a customers home and crapcast decided to string the line on the outside as a service to my customers ill zip a piece off and tuck the cable behind the siding and snap it back. It literally takes 5 minutes and the customers are thrilled.

I Was just curious how many of you guys have one, and how often you use it? If some of you dont know what the hell im talking about here it is.. HD sells them for $5.99 in the siding aisle. Honestly one of the best tools you can have when your stuck and dont want to call the siding guy.



Heres a video just dont remove the nails! most of the homes on the east coast have vinyl siding. This tool works really well with the more higher end vinyl siding patterns/insulated too. Just try a few pieces on your home before doing a customers :)

I was very excited until the part about vinyl siding. I was getting very curious about how this would work on our wood sided houses here in the Pacific Northwest. I'm usually pretty up on tools, but that is one I am completely unfamiliar with. I bet the Comcast and DirecTV guys around here know all about them from doing trailer jobs though.

I didn't know that tool existed!

Years ago I rolled the end of a stiff putty knife with a torch to achieve something similar.I guess I should have filed for a patent :-)

I used to run into a lot of vinyl in Kansas.Even on 500k houses.

I don't think I've seen any in the Northwest!

For 6 bucks,it's worth having!

Have had one for 2 years. I bought it because I had just done some work where I could have used it. Since I bought it, I haven't needed it once yet

Too much brick here in Houston for one of those.

I sided houses (vinyl) for a brief stint right after I graduated college. Those devices are ubiquitous in that job and more than a little useful.

I have not seen a single, yes, a single vinyl sided house since I left Brooklyn.
Here in New Mexico it's nothing but stucco, with occasional stone or brick accent.

Does it work on stucco?

Yeah, it's dependent on climate and geography. Where I'm from originally, it was all vinyl siding. I live in Colorado now and it's all wood siding. You'll find stucco in a lot of desert-like climates.

There are occasional homes out here with vinyl siding, but they pay out the a$$ for it. I've heard figures like $30K thrown out there for a moderately sized ranch home.....crazy! When I was doing it back in the early 90's, the same type of house wouldn't cost any more than $3K.

I just start popping it loose at a joint and then pull.

Easy to snap it back into place by hand as well.




Did siding work years ago when the change from aluminum to vinyl was happening.

No vinyl siding here either... haven't ever seen it on a home in this area.

Here, at last, in two sentences, is the story we all know,
The Story Of Very Cool Specialty Tools:

Lets go a step further and name what other specialty tools we have that rarely get used......

unfortunately on the east coast we get vinyl. Alot of the higher end homes will have the front facade done with stone/brick/cedar (sometimes even the sides) but it is very rare to have the back of the house in any type of facade. even the million dollar shore homes have vinyl siding or a vinyl cedar look alike

I was in a 7 million dollar mansion today for a site survey and only the front and sides were done in stone, the back was all vinyl siding (high end) i mean, if your going to stone 3/4 of your house why not spend another 50k and do the back?

Yep.