How To Do Start Row Hardi Siding

You can make your own fiber cement starter strip by ripping a piece of hardieplank lap siding into 1 1 4 inch strips.

How to do start row hardi siding. 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. In this video i show how i installed fiber cement siding to finish the exterior walls of the new room. First you ll want to start at one end and work across the wall.

Cut the strip with a. Snap a line 1 in. Run a 1 4 inch bead of caulk to cover the gap left between the trim boards and the lap siding. Be sure to align the bottom edges of trim and siding for best appearance.

Apply a 1 1 4 inch starter strip right above the water table trim located at the bottom edge of the house wall. It s best to stagger the joints in each successive course to avoid noticeable patterns. 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. Remember a 1 4 inch clearance must be maintained between siding and trim and leave a 1 8 inch gap between siding and trim.

A demonstration on how to install hardieplank siding. 2 house built before 2008 so has no flashing okay to caulk. 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.

Above the bottom of the wall sheathing as a guide. 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. These strips installed at the bottom will make your first row of siding angle out to match the rest of the rows. How to install hardie siding.

Install these fragile starter strips with a 15 gauge trim gun. Use an exterior grade paintable latex caulk.