Hardie Plank

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Anonymous wrote:just remember there are still maintenance issues it's not like brick or vinyl siding.

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/decor/msg1012330022981.html

You're not exactly proving your point with that link! All the responses demonstrate that it is almost maintenance free.

http://www.inspectorsjournal.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12070

Again, another useless link that only reports on a rumor which the company then refute. We're planning on using Hardiplank soon, so I am genuinely interested if there are maintenance issues I've not heard of before, but nothing I've seen here seems to have suggested that's the case.

Be careful when pressure washing it, hardiplank can easily get damaged.

vinyl or aluminum siding are both significantly softer than and would buckle much more easily than hardiplank. sure you need to always be careful with power washing it would still take much more pressure to damage hardiplank relative to other types of siding.

The issue is that hardiplank can be saturated with water because it is fiberous and the it would disintegrate

[Anonymous]

^^ This is just stupid. It absorbs some water yes, but it doesn't disintegrate. It is fiber bonded with cement.

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Cut ends must be sealed and ends terminating at vertical trim must be caulked.

See Hardie's own best practices guide:

http://www.jameshardie.com/pdf/best-practices/hz/hz5-2012-v6-1-hardieplank.pdf

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We had it put up several years ago to replace siding which was continually being replaced due to minimal overhang from the roof and the exposure to hot sun. Looks great. Not repainting every few years is nice too. We also made sure we used a contractor with lots of experience with Hardiboards since the reason people seem to ever have problems with this is it was not installed properly.

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We got Hardie Plank put in three years ago. Still looks great and we get compliments all the time. So far, we haven't had to do any maintenance.

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We have it - and we get lots of compliments. We bought our place with it installed, and our friend who does siding said it's so much better than vinyl.

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We have hard implant and absolutely love it! So easy to take care of and looks beautiful. Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:We have hard implant and absolutely love it! So easy to take care of and looks beautiful. Good luck!

I think you may have won Spell Check Transformation of the Year (?!).... "HardiePlank" to "hard implant"? LOL ....

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We are considering it for an addition on our brick house. Suggestions on color?

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering it for an addition on our brick house. Suggestions on color?

Two ways to go, precolored, and paint it yourself. The latter costs quite a bit more (~$5k more on our addition vs. the precolored, the material costs less but the labor to paint it properly bumps the price up), so we went with precolored, which has a 15 yr. guarantee on needing repainting (though proper installation is critical to maintaing the warranty, or if you are skeptical of them as I am, in just maximizing the longevity).

Our house is a 1950 brick colonial with tan/cream trim. The HardiePlank on the addition is Iron Gray, with white trim (and the original house trim will now be white). We were not sure how it would look but it looks great. Our neighbors have also mentioned how much they like the color. It contrasts nicely with the brick but makes the mass of the addition recede into the yard, and the white trim on the (many) windows stands out rather than the mass of the addition itself.

YMMV depending on what color you're mating it with and what your topography &c. is we're on side of a hill with very large trees in back and smaller ones in front. You don't see the addition much at all from the front and right side of the house, you see it coming down the hill off to the back and the left of the original house.

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We did the pre-painted. Our house is grey and we went with a blue-grey color that was pretty close. It looks fine to us. It's on the sleeping porch part of the house (rest of it is brick) so it's common around our area to see the additions a slightly different color. Plus it's a rowhouse so you can't see it from the street.

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If one was to replace wood siding with hardiplank what are starting costs?

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I think you may have won Spell Check Transformation of the Year (?!).... "HardiePlank" to "hard implant"? LOL ....


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Anonymous wrote:We are considering it for an addition on our brick house. Suggestions on color?

Two ways to go, precolored, and paint it yourself. The latter costs quite a bit more (~$5k more on our addition vs. the precolored, the material costs less but the labor to paint it properly bumps the price up), so we went with precolored, which has a 15 yr. guarantee on needing repainting (though proper installation is critical to maintaing the warranty, or if you are skeptical of them as I am, in just maximizing the longevity).

Our house is a 1950 brick colonial with tan/cream trim. The HardiePlank on the addition is Iron Gray, with white trim (and the original house trim will now be white). We were not sure how it would look but it looks great. Our neighbors have also mentioned how much they like the color. It contrasts nicely with the brick but makes the mass of the addition recede into the yard, and the white trim on the (many) windows stands out rather than the mass of the addition itself.

YMMV depending on what color you're mating it with and what your topography &c. is we're on side of a hill with very large trees in back and smaller ones in front. You don't see the addition much at all from the front and right side of the house, you see it coming down the hill off to the back and the left of the original house.

Thanks! That is one of the colors we were considering.