Cutting Sheet Metal Siding

The metal sheets used to form the roof need to be cut to fit your roof before you can install them but fortunately this is easy to do with a few different tools.

Cutting sheet metal siding. You can cut mild steel up to about 3 8 in. Use your nondominant hand to hold the side of the metal. How to cut angle cut for the roof pitch. It may not be an obvious choice but fitted with the right blade a circular saw is a great metal cutting tool.

Cheap compared to a nibbler. Cut metal roofing with electric shears electric metal shears come in two varieties a standard plug in in power tool or better an attachment for your impact driver this is best done with malco tools. Hold the snips loose in your hand and place the two blades around the edge that you d like to cut. Jigsaws and metal cutting band saws are more work but can make most cuts in light to medium sheet metal.

Use tin snips or shears to cut lengths by hand. Hold the side of the metal sheet and put your snips around the edge. Step 1 cutting lengthwise to cut corrugated metal siding lengthwise or with the corrugation you can simply use a set of electric shears to do the job. A handheld cutting tool fitted with a metal cut off wheel will easily cut through sheet.

A tool like a nibbler is fast and easy to maneuver around to cut circles corners and angles in sheet metal work with out jamming like electric shears or tin snips would. In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter. Shears are a cheap tool that can quickly cut sheets of corrugated metal in straight lines with little effort. Step 2 cutting across corrugations.

Using a dewalt 20 volt drill and cutters made by malco real good stuff. Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade. There will not be any difficulty because you are cutting with the grain of the corrugation and can even use them as guides in some instances. Cut metal with your circular saw.

You could also use a circular saw to cut lots of sheets more quickly and a nibbler to create rounded cuts. The metal is for siding a trailer house.