Made on a jobsite, for the jobsite.
EZpanl was not dreamed up in a boardroom. It came out of a real wall, a heavy sheet of siding, and a builder who knew there had to be a better way.
EZpanl is a steel hook kit that supports a full sheet of panel siding at the required bottom-edge height while a two-person crew positions and fastens it. The kit is sixteen hooks and one EZhandle in 11-gauge American steel, with no moving parts. Published guidance calls for a minimum two-person crew.
It started with one sheet of siding.
Our founder has spent a career as a builder and developer, from custom homes to full subdivisions. A few years back, siding a house himself, he set the first full sheet against the wall and remembered exactly how hard that part of the job is: heavy, awkward, and challenging to hold level and fasten at the same time.
So he sketched a simple hook, had a friend fabricate the first few out of steel in the shop, and hung the next sheet with them. The panel rested on the hooks. The wall took the weight. The idea worked on the first wall.
Sixteen hooks and one EZhandle. Flat 11 gauge steel, red powder coat.
Simple steel, built for the job.
No batteries. No moving parts. Just solid steel and a smarter way to work. Use only within the approved instructions and with a minimum two-person crew.
tool, built to do one job properly
EZpanl is an installation aid that gives a two-person crew a steadier way to hold a full panel while they fasten it. Our published guidance calls for a minimum two-person crew, and the tool is not a replacement for a second worker or for your siding manufacturer's requirements. We have not published a time saving, because we have not measured one. When we run that test we will publish the method alongside the number, including the parts that do not favour us.
It is EZpanl, with no second e. That is the spelling on the company, on the product and on the packaging, and it is the one to search for. Plenty of people write it EZ Panl or EZpanel after only hearing it said out loud, and those all reach us. Other companies sell different kinds of panels under names that look similar. We make one thing: a steel hook kit that supports a full sheet of panel siding at the required bottom-edge height while a two-person crew positions and fastens it.
Why we built another one
Tools for hanging siding already existed. The ones he could find were built for something else. Self-gauging tools are made for horizontal lap siding. Panel clamps use a different temporary attachment method and provide two support points. Neither addressed the full-sheet application he was working on: a 4x8 sheet on bare sheathing that had to sit at a starting height he set himself.
So the kit is aimed at that case and not at the others. We compare all of them, including the free methods that cost nothing, in compare tools. If a lap gauge or a flashing clamp is the right answer for your wall, use it.
Our own crew, on a real wall.
Built for real job sites
The part of the job this exists for is not glamorous and it is not theoretical. A 4x8 sheet of panel siding runs from roughly 38 lb for 3/8 in. plywood T1-11 up to 76.8 lb for HardiePanel, and OSHA's materials handling guidance recommends limiting a one-person lift to 50 pounds and using two or more people above that. Every one of those figures, with its source, is on our panel weights page.
That is the few minutes of every course where the sheet is up, it will not stay put, and nobody has a free hand. Sixteen support hooks are our answer to that specific part of the job. It is not an answer to anything else, and we would rather say so than sell you a tool for a job it does not do.
Purpose-built panel support. That is the whole idea.
Put it on your next wall.
16 hooks and 1 EZhandle, $199, free shipping to all 50 states and 30-day returns.
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