Cutting Sheet Metal Siding

Step 2 cutting across corrugations.

Cutting sheet metal siding.

Use your nondominant hand to hold the side of the metal. The metal is for siding a trailer house. 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. It may not be an obvious choice but fitted with the right blade a circular saw is a great metal cutting tool.

Hot metal chips will fly everywhere. Shears are a cheap tool that can quickly cut sheets of corrugated metal in straight lines with little effort. 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. You could also use a circular saw to cut lots of sheets more quickly and a nibbler to create rounded cuts.

Using a dewalt 20 volt drill and cutters made by malco real good stuff. Cheap compared to a nibbler. Use tin snips or shears to cut lengths by hand. 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.

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. How to cut angle cut for the roof pitch. A handheld cutting tool fitted with a metal cut off wheel will easily cut through sheet. The best tool to cut sheet metal is an electric nibbler tool it cuts corrugated iron sheet metal and even metal car panels easily.

Cut metal with your circular saw. In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter. Jigsaws and metal cutting band saws are more work but can make most cuts in light to medium sheet metal. Hold the snips loose in your hand and place the two blades around the edge that you d like to cut.

Hold the side of the metal sheet and put your snips around the edge. Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade.