How To Nail Hardie Siding

This old house general contractor tom silva shares his secrets for working with fiber cement siding.

How to nail hardie siding. James hardie recommends the use of quality hot dipped galvanized nails. Attach flat tabs at the back of the hardie trim before installing. Hardie plank siding has a nail line across the top of the board that is 1 down from the top and nails are supposed to fall between and 1 from the top of the board to give the best hold. How to install hardie siding with a nail gun.

Pick out stainless steel or hot dipped galvanized nails size 6d 1 1 2 inch long siding nails and 2 inch long siding nails in the. Drive the nail heads flush to the siding not below the surface. If hand nailing fiber cement siding use hot dipped galvanized nails and drive the nails into the wall studs. Pinning of the butt joints is not intended to increase wind load values.

Use a pneumatic staple gun to drive for staples. What i find is that eg nails are ok when blind nailed since the nails see little water. How to choose nails for hardiplank. Blind nail your hardie siding in place using 11 gauge roofing nails and a nail gun.

It can be a local hardware store or one of the larger chain stores. James hardie is not responsible for the corrosion resistance of fasteners. After attaching the taps on the back you can start attaching the hardie trim to the side of your building. Any lower and you might see a few nail heads poking through the bottom of the next board any higher and your siding is likely to be loose and could even rattle in the wind.

Go to the nail section in any hardware store. Make sure the nails go through the siding and into the studs along the wall. And shall be installed 3 8 in. Step 4 place the second hardie siding plank above the starter strip with a 1 1 2 inch overlap.

Using 6d or 8d stainless or. See below for a shopping list and tools subscribe to. Pinning the plank down at the bottom edge is a common practice called pin back it is used to correct high nailing loose planks gaps or rattling. From end and between 3 4 in.

Note that if your studs are greater than 16 oc then you need to face nail the siding.