PacTool Gecko Gauge LP Siding Tool, The Original Home Siding Installation Kit - For Use with 3/18 Inch LP Engineered Wood Siding, Includes 2 Gecko Gauge Clamps for One Person Installation

Worked great. Made installation easy. So far quality holding. Cost more, but worth it for the versatility.

Works just fine. With these I was able to get 2/3 of my house sided over the winter just by working on the relatively few decent days we had. Other reviewers have complained they are made of plastic, so what, a lot of things are made of plastic. I dropped these a couple of times from 20 feet up on a ladder on concrete with no damage. Are they perfect? No nothing is but they do work and make it possible for one person to install siding. They did fall off a couple of times but it was because I didn't have the clamp set right. Again so what. They do work.

Don't have to wait for a partner to help hold the other end of the boards. It save lots of time and is a great investment. Very sturdy and hangs well.

I did a siding job with these and there are some pro's and con's. Pro's are that you can do a lot of work with just one person (for the most part). They can hold boards for you as you nail, and they will space out the boards evenly. Cons are that they don't hold the boards all the time. sometimes they slip down because a gap is created when you tighten the grip to the previous board. The gap is almost always present so it's something to work around and be aware of.One more thing to think about. I was doing a repair of the bottom half of the siding and the boards were previously not evenly spaced. That made matching them with these very difficult. They are still a helpful starting point, but not 100% foolproof.

Works perfectly! They are 100 times better than homemade gauges, very impressive tools.

I don't know how anyone can side their home without these. They are easy to use and make the job a whole lot easier to accomplish while you are wrestling air tools, a measuring tape, and a level.

Very valuable and a huge time saver. A must for one-man application. Holds any length in position while you make final adjustments and nail it fast. I pinned both ends and the middle of long boards, so that on the next course the Gecko gage would easily slide under that board. Then after pinning the next course I would go back and nail the previous course every 16 inches. Then repeat the process as I worked up. This way I never had any problem sliding the Gecko gage under the underling course of siding. Adjusts in 1/4 inch increments down to 4 inches to the weather but by inserting a spacer in the slot holding the siding you can go to spacing below 4 inches which was necessary for me in some places to match existing siding on an old house. Easily handles 18 footers. A great tool. I learned about these gages from a YouTube video. It would be good for the manufacturer to have a video on the web page where it is sold so first time users like me understood how to use it.

Works great. Great for the price