How To Do Start Row Hardi Siding

Remember a 1 4 inch clearance must be maintained between siding and trim and leave a 1 8 inch gap between siding and trim.

How to do start row hardi siding.

How to install hardie siding. Apply a 1 1 4 inch starter strip right above the water table trim located at the bottom edge of the house wall. To complete your hardie board lap siding installation paint primed hardieplank within 180 days of installation and unprimed hardieplank within 90 days of installation. Above the bottom of the wall sheathing as a guide.

Snap a line 1 in. Find your most beat up pieces of siding and rip them down into 1 1 4 in. Begin at the lowest point at the side of your house where you will install your hardie siding. 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.

You can make your own fiber cement starter strip by ripping a piece of hardieplank lap siding into 1 1 4 inch strips. 2 house built before 2008 so has no flashing okay to caulk. Then install a 1 1 4 inch starter strip and an 8 1 4 inch starter course. How to stagger lap siding for walls longer than 12 feet you ll need to butt additional lengths of siding together.

Be sure to align the bottom edges of trim and siding for best appearance. These strips installed at the bottom will make your first row of siding angle out to match the rest of the rows. 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. First you ll want to start at one end and work across the wall.

Cut the strip with a. A demonstration on how to install hardieplank siding. 1 i chose this caulk because it has 25 flexibility compared to silicone based caulk. Colorplus products are coated at the factory and don t require painting.

Run a 1 4 inch bead of caulk to cover the gap left between the trim boards and the lap siding. In this video i show how i installed fiber cement siding to finish the exterior walls of the new room.