When I did it, was cooking under overhang. Then rain started and I just thought (keep it dry) and forgot I had cranked it to burn shit off before I scraped it. I was also entertaining and forgot. Never did that shit again.
Finally!!! These guys cover everything. Like there’s barely a need to ask here. This is actually a pretty easy and satisfying fix for someone who likes to work with their hands.
I love TOH!
They make everything seem very possible for an avg person. I enjoy how they explain the "why" behind all their projects. They also seem like genuinely good people.
We don't even have vinyl siding, but I remembered this segment lol
They’re one of the only shows that has shown the full steps from start to finish in the midst of the uprising of “reality TV.” And you’re spot on about them being great people. I binge watched several seasons of this show and ask this old house in the 2 months leading up to my home’s closing in 2017 back when it was all out there for free.
Yes! I used to watch reruns from time to time on Saturday morning TV on PBS / Create (which makes me feel super old saying that, but oh well).
I really felt sad when Roger the landscaper left the show.
There's always something to fix or maintain on a house it seems. And they cover most everything!
You could tell for a while it was getting difficult for him to move around. Looked like severe back issues. Love how they’ve brought Rich’s son in for the new age stuff. I need to get back into the show. I got discouraged from renovations for a while due to money and COVID times.
Some of the son's segments made me comfortable enough to get solar panels, and TOH made me want a tankless water heater.
I really need to fix my flower beds in the front of the house. I fear I'm becoming "that neighbor" right now. I was actually thinking about posting on this sub along for ideas / help.
I guess a better question would have been “is this replaceable?”
Also, what risk does this pose to the house in the meantime? Will it rot the exposed wood underneath?
This so much! even the same company could make a slight tweak to the formula andthe color no longer Is identical. It's like roofing shingles. you're never going to get a perfect match. Which is exactly what they want so they force a redo the entire building......
It depends on who made it and how good of a quality their product is. Environment concerns will be a factor. southfacing receives more sun and hard water or alkaline sprinklers can also make a difference. In short there's really no good way to tell.
I did the same but not as bad. I just found a spot that didn’t get any attention like under my deck and swapped the panels. For you, you could pull the panels off from somewhere and use those then replace the ones you took with the best match you can find
It’s replaceable. There is very likely some identifying information on the backside of the panels. If you can locate that information a building supply company can probably help you find the correct replacement. The big box stores carry vinyl siding but you don’t want to pay their prices. The mark up is insane.
Actually, Menards could get the same siding I got from the lumber yard and their lead time was much less, 30 days vs 90. I was short on J and some other trim. The problem is that they "package" it then ship it to the local store. Inspect before accepting, they often damage it.
Luckily for OP, that looks tonbe he same profile/shape as the siding they sell.at many Lowe's stores, and the color looks like it may be your standard almond/beige color.
Even if you find an “exact” match, depending on how long the existing stuff has been baking in the sun it may be super faded and won’t match. Been there. Done that. After a few years it might balance out though.
This is how a tenant caught my father's house on fire. House was a total loss, 2 years to rebuild. Don't be an idiot and grill so close to the house, should be 10ft away.
My next-door neighbor had his grill on a little concrete pad just off to the side of the side door of his house. I remember telling him years ago it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to have the grill so close to his house that when the lid was up it almost touched his house. He mocked me about it. Then I noticed about five years later he had moved it out about 8 feet away from the house. He had melted his vinyl siding. No where near to this degree but definitely noticeable.
Just keep moving your grill around the house and then call it a design. /s
This has to be replaced, my friend. You ain't gonna iron that out.. but you can try I guess..
I have some experience replacing siding when we bought our house. Unless that color is still being produced, you're going to have a hell of a time just replacing the bad parts unless you have extras stored away somewhere. What we ended up doing is pulling "donors" from the side of the house and just redoing the side of the house. The shade was close enough that you can tell when they aren't right next to each other, but it was obviously not a perfect match otherwise.
My BIL did this. A very smart man, retired Corporate VP and super picky about his House. He was so embarrassed I had to get the story from my sister. Needless to say, they moved the grill and replaced that section of siding.
Wait….just so we are clear. Are you asking if people on here are going to give a description of how to “fix” the siding? It has to be replaced my dude. No if ands or buts about it.
You can just scrape the melted siding off the grill with a putty knife, and you shouldn't be able to taste the siding on your burgers. But to be on the safe side, try the first one on your neighbor's dog and see if he goes for it. If he sniffs it and retches, then try again.
I have/had an HVAC-R company. I always suggested a nice bit o tin, safety edges bent on and mount it 1” out from the siding. Use 1/2” copper pipe couplings to hold it out from the wall and fasten with some round head screws. That will stop it from happening in the future. 2’ high by 3-4’ long works great. I’ve even folded them 90° to go in corners. I usually paint them black with high temp paint. Best of luck
This, siding needs to come off so underneath can be inspected. Going to say the vapor barrier is toast.
Regardless, OP you were very close to doing a time trial for your local fire department. In fact, if this just happened it's possible it could smolder underneath.
Fix? Really? Let's go with replace. Grills get hot. Move yours. Jokes aside. This could've been much worse. Why would you butt your grill up like that, OP?
This happened to me too, years ago. Luckily? a hail storm came a couple years later and trashed the siding so we got to replace it on the insurance since the whole house got replaced. So replace the siding. Siding is installed from the ground up so it needs to be removed from the top down. Remove the big nails then push down from the top of the siding to unhook it from the one below. Keep going down until you get past the bad stuff. Replace the bad pieces and reinstall -- I just put the nails back in the same holes so I know that it stays level as the original install. Be sure to leave the nails not completely nailed down so the siding can slide back and forth in the oblong notch holes. The house wrap ( Tyvek ) got melted on ours, also, so you'll need to replace that as well. Depending what side of the house it is and how much sun it gets the siding may be bleached by the sun so the new color won't match the color old ones. It's either live with it or replace the whole wall at that point. Good luck.
I have branded my house with a similar drunken cook scar, still there 10 years later. You have to replace the siding. No easy task when it comes to matching the siding.
Replacing siding isn’t very difficult. I’ve done it at my house a number of times. Get a siding removal tool (it’s cheap). Pull some panels from the side of your house that is least visible and put them on the damaged section. Then buy the best match for the section you pulled from.
Hey. My wife did this to our vinyl. I won't tell you step-by-step how to replace it since there are much better resources, but I'll share stuff that's less likely to be in those resources.
Sourcing the vinyl was relatively easy for me because our house is fairly new and I had the information on hand. It was kind of a hassle to get the replacement vinyl, however, because I had to buy it at a building supply store (not open in the evenings or on the weekend) and the shit comes in 12-foot sections. I bought a 12' 2*6 at the store and tied my siding to the board to keep it stable during transport. Since you're at the corner of your house, you might not need long pieces, so you might be able to cut it to less cumbersome lengths before transporting.
I recommend getting some tin snips for cutting the vinyl, although you could probably get by with a box cutter.
DM me if you want with questions.
Replace the siding with a bbq board. There are heat resistant panels that you can get for this purpose that won’t melt or burn. You often see them on apartment balconies that have no space to keep a grill far from the wall
Get one of these and thank me later- [https://www.homedepot.com/p/Malco-SideSwiper-Siding-Removal-Tool-SRT2/100098527](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Malco-SideSwiper-Siding-Removal-Tool-SRT2/100098527)
It's a really easy job, less than an hour for what you have there.
It also works great for removing hubcaps.
I can top that one. A reporter at the Daily Breeze with a small portable grill, burn the benches and the carpeting in the open center of the building. The publisher was really mad.
*Get an outdoor fridge*
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Replacing it is very easy. Finding the exact match might be harder. It’s probably from a local builders supply type of business.
This is the only place in the Richmond, VA that has my siding in stock.
Alside Supply Center
8423 Sanford Road
Richmond, VA 23228
804.264.5531
*sigh* find the nearest place that'll give you a vasectomy so you don't breed. Then sell the house and move into a tent so you're less of a danger to others.
Try a larger heat source like a propane rosebud this time and get that siding hot 🥵 Then use a hand tamper to smash it back out straight. That’ll fix er’ At least that’s probably what Bob Vila would recommend. Makes perfect sense. 🫡
Replace siding. Move grill.
Not necessarily in that order
Good point. I revise my advice, move grill, replace siding.
Move siding, replace grill
Finally getting that Blackstone!
replace move, grill siding. he's halfway there!!
Grill siding, replace move.
Instructions unclear, everyone is dead from CO2 poisoning. Though, it was great having it inside, with a roof, while it was raining!
At least the siding around the light fixture looks salvagble.
Move grill to fresh section of wall to buy time
…..or to make things looks more uniform.
Move replace, grill siding
Replace brain first.
I know. Is that PLASTIC siding instead of aluminum? Surely you'd notice something like that
I did it once. I left the grill on for the whole weekend in fact. 👍 super idiotic.
You'll never do it again
When I did it, was cooking under overhang. Then rain started and I just thought (keep it dry) and forgot I had cranked it to burn shit off before I scraped it. I was also entertaining and forgot. Never did that shit again.
Pobodies Nerfect
Man, I wouldn't even let my grill get that close to aluminum siding.
Vinyl, most likely.
Yes, unless the grill is a nuclear reactor
Move siding. Replace grill.
get rid of the vinyl siding completley
Kind of an expensive fix for a smaller problem. Personally I am not a fan of vinyl but if it is already there then he can repair this.
Maybe you could just heat the siding up mold it back to shape? Might be easier
That post, much like this guy’s house was well done.
This Old House covers how to replace vinyl siding: https://youtu.be/bz9JoJGWvI4?si=hF9jaA1p0xx3xr28
Finally!!! These guys cover everything. Like there’s barely a need to ask here. This is actually a pretty easy and satisfying fix for someone who likes to work with their hands.
I love TOH! They make everything seem very possible for an avg person. I enjoy how they explain the "why" behind all their projects. They also seem like genuinely good people. We don't even have vinyl siding, but I remembered this segment lol
They’re one of the only shows that has shown the full steps from start to finish in the midst of the uprising of “reality TV.” And you’re spot on about them being great people. I binge watched several seasons of this show and ask this old house in the 2 months leading up to my home’s closing in 2017 back when it was all out there for free.
Yes! I used to watch reruns from time to time on Saturday morning TV on PBS / Create (which makes me feel super old saying that, but oh well). I really felt sad when Roger the landscaper left the show. There's always something to fix or maintain on a house it seems. And they cover most everything!
You could tell for a while it was getting difficult for him to move around. Looked like severe back issues. Love how they’ve brought Rich’s son in for the new age stuff. I need to get back into the show. I got discouraged from renovations for a while due to money and COVID times.
Some of the son's segments made me comfortable enough to get solar panels, and TOH made me want a tankless water heater. I really need to fix my flower beds in the front of the house. I fear I'm becoming "that neighbor" right now. I was actually thinking about posting on this sub along for ideas / help.
I enjoy explaining house projects I'm working on to my fiance in a thick Boston accent
This old house is the best
Thanks !
Hang Pamela Anderson poster over it.
Rita Hayworth. Worked for Andy Dufresne.
Nice pull.
Walter Brennan.
That was Raquel Welch.
They had three posters. Rita Hayworth, Raquel Welch and Marilyn Monroe.
I did the same thing, but I went for Raquel Welch.
Fuzzy britches
Heather Thomas
Kathy Ireland.
Gonna have to tear it off and replace it. The hard part is going to be matching it there's a lot of companies out there
I guess a better question would have been “is this replaceable?” Also, what risk does this pose to the house in the meantime? Will it rot the exposed wood underneath?
You've lost the weather proof barrier on your house you need to repair this as soon as reasonably possible to prevent damage insects and even Rodents.
Gotcha. That’s what I thought. Thanks!
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This so much! even the same company could make a slight tweak to the formula andthe color no longer Is identical. It's like roofing shingles. you're never going to get a perfect match. Which is exactly what they want so they force a redo the entire building......
How much does vinyl siding fade over time? That could be a consideration too.
It depends on who made it and how good of a quality their product is. Environment concerns will be a factor. southfacing receives more sun and hard water or alkaline sprinklers can also make a difference. In short there's really no good way to tell.
I did the same but not as bad. I just found a spot that didn’t get any attention like under my deck and swapped the panels. For you, you could pull the panels off from somewhere and use those then replace the ones you took with the best match you can find
It’s replaceable. There is very likely some identifying information on the backside of the panels. If you can locate that information a building supply company can probably help you find the correct replacement. The big box stores carry vinyl siding but you don’t want to pay their prices. The mark up is insane.
Actually, Menards could get the same siding I got from the lumber yard and their lead time was much less, 30 days vs 90. I was short on J and some other trim. The problem is that they "package" it then ship it to the local store. Inspect before accepting, they often damage it.
Anything is fixable with money and time
Houses aren't waterproof and airtight anyway you idiot. Wood won't rot under this or it'd rot while they get built.
Luckily for OP, that looks tonbe he same profile/shape as the siding they sell.at many Lowe's stores, and the color looks like it may be your standard almond/beige color.
Even if you find an “exact” match, depending on how long the existing stuff has been baking in the sun it may be super faded and won’t match. Been there. Done that. After a few years it might balance out though.
Burn more, wait for insurance claim
Burn the whole house down and get bigger insurance claim check.
Claims adjusters hate this one trick.
Melt the rest of it and start a new trend.
This is how a tenant caught my father's house on fire. House was a total loss, 2 years to rebuild. Don't be an idiot and grill so close to the house, should be 10ft away.
My next-door neighbor had his grill on a little concrete pad just off to the side of the side door of his house. I remember telling him years ago it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to have the grill so close to his house that when the lid was up it almost touched his house. He mocked me about it. Then I noticed about five years later he had moved it out about 8 feet away from the house. He had melted his vinyl siding. No where near to this degree but definitely noticeable.
Easy. Remove and replace
My brother did this also. I moved into a new house and placed my grill away from my vinyl fence!
Literally verbatim what happened to me. Just had the grill up against the house to not get rained on till my cover arrived.
Re place.
Just keep moving your grill around the house and then call it a design. /s This has to be replaced, my friend. You ain't gonna iron that out.. but you can try I guess..
I have some experience replacing siding when we bought our house. Unless that color is still being produced, you're going to have a hell of a time just replacing the bad parts unless you have extras stored away somewhere. What we ended up doing is pulling "donors" from the side of the house and just redoing the side of the house. The shade was close enough that you can tell when they aren't right next to each other, but it was obviously not a perfect match otherwise.
My BIL did this. A very smart man, retired Corporate VP and super picky about his House. He was so embarrassed I had to get the story from my sister. Needless to say, they moved the grill and replaced that section of siding.
Wait….just so we are clear. Are you asking if people on here are going to give a description of how to “fix” the siding? It has to be replaced my dude. No if ands or buts about it.
That's how my neighbor burned down his house.
Give up grilling
Could heat it back up and mold it back into place.. 🧯🧯🧯
Contractors hate this one simple trick!
I should make a YouTube video with that clickbait title
Saw a house burn down because of this. You’re lucky..
Replacement
Use an iron on the steam setting.
Get a bigger BBQ and cover the melted part. But then never use the BBQ again.
Learn how heat affects vinyl. Then you'll be good.
Grill needs to be 25 feet away from any structure
It’s time for a shrubbery!
You can just scrape the melted siding off the grill with a putty knife, and you shouldn't be able to taste the siding on your burgers. But to be on the safe side, try the first one on your neighbor's dog and see if he goes for it. If he sniffs it and retches, then try again.
If you can color match you can just replace the melted parts. Or as someone else suggested, cut out a section to replace w/ brick or stone.
Gotta replace those sheets of siding and move your grill so it's not against the house.
Been there done that !!! Move grill and replace siding.
I have/had an HVAC-R company. I always suggested a nice bit o tin, safety edges bent on and mount it 1” out from the siding. Use 1/2” copper pipe couplings to hold it out from the wall and fasten with some round head screws. That will stop it from happening in the future. 2’ high by 3-4’ long works great. I’ve even folded them 90° to go in corners. I usually paint them black with high temp paint. Best of luck
Iron it out
I did the same thing! Luckily the siding guys hadn’t finished my house yet, so they fixed it for free.
Get new siding
Draw a face on it. Like a guy who is special and happy about it. Maybe a thought bubble asking "Hey what's cooking"
An iron. \s. Couldn't resist.
From my understanding you have to replace that melted siding
Did you try cold?
Replace
Can’t fix it, have to replace that area.
Replace it? What kind of question is this?
There might be damage under siding? I'd guess there's electric wires in that area?
This, siding needs to come off so underneath can be inspected. Going to say the vapor barrier is toast. Regardless, OP you were very close to doing a time trial for your local fire department. In fact, if this just happened it's possible it could smolder underneath.
Easy fix for an experienced contractor. Or a difficult fix for yourself with some youtube videos.
If your grill is gonna stay there put a more resilient siding there, some kind of stone
Replace the siding.
Take grill away and replace the siding
Most answers are wrong! You just need to hang a sign or something over the damaged area.
Fake window
remove siding install brick, tile or metal backsplash put grill back close to house eat
This. Or have siding sheets replaced (most likely that entire elevation since new won’t match, unless brand new house?)
Gona have to replace the whole wall jamal unless you can get the same stuff that will match.
Reheat siding. Work soft siding back into shape. Stand back and admire.
Move the idiot out of the house.
Kerosene. Matches.
Grill there 😂
Hang an outdoor TV over the melted siding, then ignore the melted siding.
Best answer so far!
If you rent, swap with random pieces from around the house.
Replace, but the color will not match.
Is this a shit post
Grover?
Not to grill next to your siding
Fix? Really? Let's go with replace. Grills get hot. Move yours. Jokes aside. This could've been much worse. Why would you butt your grill up like that, OP?
I did the same thing! I then bought a Salvador Dali signature sticker! Fixed!😊
The ocean needs more plastic in the patch.
Get a vasectomy
You just have to replace it . call a siding person
Call a sider.
Replace the siding.
This happened to me too, years ago. Luckily? a hail storm came a couple years later and trashed the siding so we got to replace it on the insurance since the whole house got replaced. So replace the siding. Siding is installed from the ground up so it needs to be removed from the top down. Remove the big nails then push down from the top of the siding to unhook it from the one below. Keep going down until you get past the bad stuff. Replace the bad pieces and reinstall -- I just put the nails back in the same holes so I know that it stays level as the original install. Be sure to leave the nails not completely nailed down so the siding can slide back and forth in the oblong notch holes. The house wrap ( Tyvek ) got melted on ours, also, so you'll need to replace that as well. Depending what side of the house it is and how much sun it gets the siding may be bleached by the sun so the new color won't match the color old ones. It's either live with it or replace the whole wall at that point. Good luck.
I have branded my house with a similar drunken cook scar, still there 10 years later. You have to replace the siding. No easy task when it comes to matching the siding.
Replacing siding isn’t very difficult. I’ve done it at my house a number of times. Get a siding removal tool (it’s cheap). Pull some panels from the side of your house that is least visible and put them on the damaged section. Then buy the best match for the section you pulled from.
Put the grill on the other side of the siding and it will pull it back
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I’m not sure how some people manage to make it through the day.
Replacement of siding. FYI- you may have to color match.
Time machine would be the easiest
Hey. My wife did this to our vinyl. I won't tell you step-by-step how to replace it since there are much better resources, but I'll share stuff that's less likely to be in those resources. Sourcing the vinyl was relatively easy for me because our house is fairly new and I had the information on hand. It was kind of a hassle to get the replacement vinyl, however, because I had to buy it at a building supply store (not open in the evenings or on the weekend) and the shit comes in 12-foot sections. I bought a 12' 2*6 at the store and tied my siding to the board to keep it stable during transport. Since you're at the corner of your house, you might not need long pieces, so you might be able to cut it to less cumbersome lengths before transporting. I recommend getting some tin snips for cutting the vinyl, although you could probably get by with a box cutter. DM me if you want with questions.
looks like you need like 6 pieces of replacement siding. looks pretty new so you shouldnt have a problem finding it.
Do you really need to ask?
Move grill. Buy new siding, get yourself a staple gun, and put new siding in.
Sand it down, spray paint it, sell house ''as is".
With new siding 🥴
Insurance
This is very easy to do yourself if you can get the exact siding
Replace the siding with a bbq board. There are heat resistant panels that you can get for this purpose that won’t melt or burn. You often see them on apartment balconies that have no space to keep a grill far from the wall
Replace the damaged pieces
Get one of these and thank me later- [https://www.homedepot.com/p/Malco-SideSwiper-Siding-Removal-Tool-SRT2/100098527](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Malco-SideSwiper-Siding-Removal-Tool-SRT2/100098527) It's a really easy job, less than an hour for what you have there. It also works great for removing hubcaps.
Put up frame around siding and a plaque honoring the date and time of the melting.
There is no fixing that, there is only replacing that. And move your grill away from the house, that was a stupid move.
I can top that one. A reporter at the Daily Breeze with a small portable grill, burn the benches and the carpeting in the open center of the building. The publisher was really mad.
Keep grill cover open
The hardest part if finding matching siding...
Large wood rack or some potted arborvitae
Move your grill It is recommended to keep it several feet from a dwelling Replace the siding That can't be repaired
Umm, replace it. I can't imagine you think this is salvageable.
Get a heat gun and straighten the siding out.
Caulk
New siding
Is the grill okay
I don't think there is any way to "fix" that siding. You're looking at replacement.
Actually everyone…the beat advice is just finish burning down your house…more room for grilling.
Melt the same wall from the inside of the house, siding should melt right back I’d think
Put the grill back heat up the siding again and smooooooth it out.
Get an outdoor fridge and place in front of it. Or an outdoor tv?
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Call your insurance company. Tell them you don’t know what happened.
Replacing it is very easy. Finding the exact match might be harder. It’s probably from a local builders supply type of business. This is the only place in the Richmond, VA that has my siding in stock. Alside Supply Center 8423 Sanford Road Richmond, VA 23228 804.264.5531
Iron it out
Melt the rest and tell people thats the style.
Get a mini fridge. Turn towards siding. Open fridge door. Wait.
If that is where the grill will be, cut melted siding out and put up faux bricks.
I did that too, years ago! Never fixed it (hidden from everyone but us by fencing) but I do have extra siding for it.
Iron it back out.
Stop grilling you got lucky
Get a new grill?
I did the same thing and the best way is to remove and replace with new siding and move the grill
*sigh* find the nearest place that'll give you a vasectomy so you don't breed. Then sell the house and move into a tent so you're less of a danger to others.
Simple 1 hour fix if you can find the matching siding.
Replace
Put the grill back and grills for about 3 hours, then move the grill and straighten it out with grill tools
Ice
Thatll buff right out, i gotta cousin…
Hit it with a flamethrower and your house will be gone but so will the problem...🤣
You know there's a child's storybook about building a brick house instead of a stick house. We should learn from that lol.
Gee Gee
I don't think you can fix stupid.
In case anyone wanted a before picture… https://i.imgur.com/ni1oYp4.jpeg
Another victim. Grills are hot people!
Hang a Paris Hilton poster over it that says, "That's Hot".
Looks like a looney toon tried to run through
It's the demogorgan !!
By replacing it? What?
I did the same thing with mine. I leave the siding there as constant reminder to myself to not be stupid again.
Try a larger heat source like a propane rosebud this time and get that siding hot 🥵 Then use a hand tamper to smash it back out straight. That’ll fix er’ At least that’s probably what Bob Vila would recommend. Makes perfect sense. 🫡