How To Put Hardie Siding On A House

Cut the strip with a circular saw from a hardie siding plank.

How to put hardie siding on a house.

Shutter colors for white houses. 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. See below for a shopping list and tools subscribe to. This old house general contractor tom silva shares his secrets for working with fiber cement siding.

Begin at the lowest point at the side of your house where you will install your hardie siding. Do all the corners before continuing. Every shade is a match. Stucco adorns the facade or interior walls in many homes.

Go bold with red shutters or black shutters. For more inspiration take a look at some of our favorite siding and shutter color combinations on real james hardie homes. With white house siding the sky is the limit when you are choosing shutter colors. 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.

When cutting fiber cement siding with circular saw use a blade that has only four or six teeth. You can change the appearance of the stucco wall surface by covering it with a wall of siding. In this video this old house general contractor tom silva shares his secrets for working with fiber cement siding. 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.

How to install siding 26a doing it dan s way daniel woodell this video show how to install hardie plank siding on a garage using some of the more up to date. Hold a hardieplank siding board with the top edge against the chalk line and 1 8 inch away from the corner trim. How to install siding over stucco walls.