How To Put Hardie Siding On A House

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How to put hardie siding on a house.

This old house general contractor tom silva shares his secrets for working with fiber cement siding. With white house siding the sky is the limit when you are choosing shutter colors. How to install siding over stucco walls. See below for a shopping list and tools subscribe to.

Go bold with red shutters or black shutters. In this video this old house general contractor tom silva shares his secrets for working with fiber cement siding. Nail it to the house framing with two siding nails every 16 inches. During my time working for james hardie i very rarely got calls from homeowners that wanted to submit a warranty claim for their hardie siding.

For more inspiration take a look at some of our favorite siding and shutter color combinations on real james hardie homes. When cutting fiber cement siding with circular saw use a blade that has only four or six teeth. Shutter colors for white houses. Nail the board to the house every 16 to 24 inches with a roofing nail along the nail line printed on the top of the siding board.

Hold a hardieplank siding board with the top edge against the chalk line and 1 8 inch away from the corner trim. Step 2 apply a 1 1 4 inch starter strip right above the water table trim located at the bottom edge of the house wall. Cut the strip with a circular saw from a hardie siding plank. To keep dust to a minimum use a circular saw that s equipped with either a dust collection bag or electric fan that blows dust into a bucket.

Hardie siding requires a minimum 2 gap from all hard surfaces like decks or rooflines and at least 8 from any soft surfaces like grass dirt or gravel. Begin at the lowest point at the side of your house where you will install your hardie siding. Stucco adorns the facade or interior walls in many homes.