Good morning what a beautiful place you have looking over the mountain the clouds blue ,the wind blowing pretty strong the siding coming alone great I like the color I bought the steer I love it have Bless weekend God Bless
Man that dog is super fast lol on retrieving that ball!!! The siding is coming along and yup you both will get faster after it becomes a natural application then you will be finished all of a sudden. LOLOL. I would suggest a good dinner and a nice glass of wine or 2 or 3...oh heck don't even count. LOLOL Gods blessings.
Enjoyed the part where a piece is broken off, and the wife wants to figure out how to fix/patch it. Sounds just like my wife and I. There's ALWAYS a way to patch it, right? Good advice about being on the same team. You guys work well together!
Good morning Break Heart and fellow subscribers. Happy weekend to u all from Jamaica 🇯🇲. Looking forward to see some more sidings on. Should be a bit easier now that u got a knock of it
Good evening Lloyd. Spring is here now. We spent the day in the orchard to be out of the way while they are putting on the roof. Hope your painting job is going well. I finished paint the back door and thought of you at work as well.
have you tried using boards under your long cuts with the shears while leaving the piece centered on the stack, the idea is to have both sides supported, as the shear nears the end you can maintain focus on the cutting line and not worry about supporting the fall off. just an idea for you kids. looking great!
You sure are lucky to have such a wonderful and helpful wife. She will try to do what ever it takes to help build her home. I know what the panels weight. Please start wearing hard hats. I have been in construction for 45 Years and safety should be first. It is so easy to get hurt and happens so fast. At least put a hard hat on her.
Progress is progress no matter the size or amount. It’s looking great. As it has been said if you want to test a marriage build a house together. You two make a great team. Thanks for bringing us along. I always look forward to seeing the next video. Stay safe.
Oh my gosh B. There are some intense moments. David puts these together and when I review I really want to take out the fight or the failure. Guess that would not be real. Most the time I see us laughing and how fast the days go working together. I hope people see how to do it better or just relate.
When we broke that sheet all I could see was dollar signs. Those panels are so expensive. Making mistakes on those is not fun. I know we are getting better. Thanks for being here and sorry in advance for my quacking.
As the saying goes, we are our worst critics. Glad to hear hope in your tone and positivity looking forward. You guys are doing awesome! I didn't see you caulking to make this layer water tight, but read it in your description. Also didn't hear you state the pieces being cut down consider where the batons go, but I'm sure that is being considered. Can't wait till next video!
@@breakheartorchard4761 so what you're saying is I can stop yelling at my tablet, " ... what about the baton spacing?!..." ? Also, where are your roofers?
Correct me if iam wrong.... You should strap the building before panel installation..... This is required for moisture and air gap between the siding and building
I agree, hardie soaks up a bit of water and needs a place to drain both front and back. either just 1x2's or they sell this stuff thats meant for cedar roofs thats ridgid and creates a inch or so air gap
Mario, trying to hold on to patience. Today was warm and beautiful. A pleasure to be out in. We saw the roof going on. Feels pretty amazing. Thanks for always being positive. Jefanna
My suggestion to you is that you run a piece of board at bottom so you can rest the sheets on it and then you wife could hold it unto the wall then you can nail it.
You are doing a great job, is a tough one Take a look at (Smokey mountains) is building his cabin, it might give you an idea how you put those concrete shits in easy way , all the best guys God bless
@Azeddine Najib: Are you talking about Smoky Mountain Outpost? He didn't use fiber cement panels on his walls. He milled his own boards and battens from trees on his property.
Ha! Erik is team David and I'm team Jenna! Patch that sucker! Shoot, I'd even find two small chunks and test it out 😂. Looking great guys, man they stuff looks heavy!
Suzanne, all I could see was dollar signs as it broke. Those panels are so expensive and I want to have enough material to finish. This whole process makes me grateful for people who do good work day in and day out that I had no idea was an earned skill set.
It's coming together now. By the time you get to the other side of the back, the battles will be over! Measure once, cut twice!!! Been there a time or two! Rome wasn't built in a day and when is break time( that board looks heavy)?
Spacing is really your choice. We went 16 inches and about 1/2-3/4 inch from the edge. Battens are 2.5 inches so they will be able to cover the edges. On the upper areas we went 12 inch.
Those plates looks very much like something we used to build our garage and then covered them up with horizontal overlapping board as the plates sucked up water like you wouldn't belive. So I really hope you are using something else as the outer shell of your house or that your fiber cement plates are very different from what we used. But since we built our garage over 10 years ago, such plates might have changed a lot since we use them. Hopefully you know a lot better than me how those sheet work than me and that they are very different than the fiber cement sheets we used back then. I remembered why I hated them when you broke that first piece and then the memories came flooding back. Basically the fiber cement sheets we got was fully unusable as the outer sheet of a building, but my dad wanted to use them because we got them really cheap. Thankfully we figured out how bad they worked against rain early enough to fix the issue by adding a second layer on top of them out of painted wood. Today, I'm almost sure that my dad would have used those fake plastic wood boards that is getting more and more used if he could do it all over again. But then he has always been about getting things done quick, even if its shoddy work as long as it works (that point actually broke my parent apart too, because my mum was the total opposite that way. And both me and my brother is somewhere in-between.)
This product, James Hardie, has a long history of being a premium siding product. I had Hardie board lap siding on my last house and liked it. If you seal and paint it properly, it holds up very well
@@breakheartorchard4761 Good to know, they just looked so damned much like the panels we just so long ago that were a total disaster even when we followed the manufacturing instruction. Mind you this was like 15 years ago and the panels were a new thing around here.
I first thought the same thing, but if they caulk the seams before painting, you'll probably never see them. The evenly spaced battens will take care of any distraction.
Whether or not Jeffana lifted on the end there was just no way that third sheet was going to survive being lifted flat!! Even lifting it vertically was probably going to be fatal, there was just too much cut out. The lifting lever was the right idea but don't you have a piece of pipe or other round stock laying around you can use as the fulcrum? Then you can move it towards or away from the wall as needed and still have a wider piece attached to the 2 x 4 distributing the load thereby reducing crushing on the bottom of the panel.. And for gosh sake just step on the end rather than leaning over and pressing on the end. For all the "teething problems" you two are making progress and that, as ever. is good to see. Chances are "Murphy" will make sure that this task will be ending just as you are getting good at it :-). Take best care of yourselves and we'll look forward to the next instalment of your trials, tribulations and successes!
@68Jaguar420G: If there is a possibly of damage to the edge of the panel, a small piece of PVC pipe slotted lengthwise and placed on the lifting edge will eliminate that problem.
Is your Tyvek directly on the studs or do you have another wood barrier underneath? I'm about to do some fiber cement myself, and am debating if I can put it directly on studs (with tyvek) or if I need to put a wood barrier up before the tyvek first.
I am editing a video right now about this. We use alex plus and caulk the seams. Then we will nail battens on them. The seems will be covered with a batten, creating a board and batten look.
@@breakheartorchard4761 thanks, are you using strips of the siding for the batten?? I’m just about to start a similar project but with only 1 window..😜
@@jeffsond I use the james Hardie battens. They are about 2 3/8” wide and about 3/4 inch thick. Around windows the have trim available in multiple widths. Siding nailer for the panels and a heavy duty trim nailer for battens and trim. 15 guage or thicker. Have a small punch available when doing trim to seat nails correctly.
Correction. I said trim nailer. I believe it is a finish nailer for the battens and trim. Again 15 gauge is better than 16. The specs say you can use 16 but they don’t drive well in that material.
I’m doing board and batten LP siding on my place. I’m going to do a 1x6 trim piece on the bottom of the wall and then come back and place all my panels on top of that. Z flashing on top of the trim should prevent leaking. Doing it by myself, I can’t figure out any other way to do it.
Can you tell me what nails you used? stainless steel? Size? Also what did you use for the batten strips? Size? Type of product? Doing this to my house now. Thanks
Hitachi (now metabo) coil siding nailer. I recall looking for stainless but I think we just used the regular hit dipped galvanized. 2 1/4 inch. Battens are 2 1/2 inch james hard 1 inch thick. We went ceder mill battens and flat siding panel. And we still have not done the battens. Been too busy on the inside of the house. We only did one test batten so far.
Hitachi (now metabo) coil siding nailer. I recall looking for stainless but I think we just used the regular hit dipped galvanized. 2 1/4 inch. Battens are 2 1/2 inch james hard 1 inch thick. We went ceder mill battens and flat siding panel. And we still have not done the battens. Been too busy on the inside of the house. We only did one test batten so far. For the battens you use a 16 g finish nailer.
@@breakheartorchard4761 Thank you for your response! Our house (two story) also uses these particle boards for structural support. The issue is that the builder cut corners when excavating and building. One side of the house has the wood and the slab level with ground causing rot. I wonder if I could replace at least the bottom part with cement ones and seal it for good.
@@ToxaJart consult a professional because I am just telling you what I would do off the cuff. Excavate around the house so the soil no longer touched the wood. Cut off the osb, treat the studs, replace the osb with new osb then do a proper install of the siding. You cant use it to replace osb. It doesn’t have shear strength. I’m sorry your builder put you in that position.
Your placing nails all over those panels. Place nails with the same pattern to every sheet. Try to place the nails so they all follow the same pattern. Looks and is much more professional. I can’t tell what kind of nails you are using but if they have heads this is even more important. Just take your time, this is the finish you are working on. GOOD LUCK GUYS ‼️👍👍. Vinny 🇺🇸
I appreciate the concern and advice. Nails are properly spaced and following a pattern. It may not look like it on the video. I will spend a moment tomorrow when we are up there, talking about it, for next week’s video.
Strapping is whats called for in the Manual. But i have hundreds of button nails that lift the siding slightly away from the wall similar to drain wrap. Strapping seems like an opportunity for insects to make nests.
Thanks for sharing. We also built a SIPS house and want to use the Fiber panels. What machine did you use to cut? No masks I thought you needed protection from fiber dust? How does it look a year later? Anything you would have done differently or still like the fiber panels? thanjks!
Still looks good. We haven’t put the battens up yet. Been working inside the house. We’ve been told we should have put firring strips behind the siding to create an air space to fight agains moisture. I’m not worried. Only time will tell. We used these Makita Shears. Creates almost no dust. th-cam.com/video/dE5s0SKgsNc/w-d-xo.html
Ich muss mal fragen, was sind das für Platten, die Ihr anbringt? Was kommt da noch drauf? Wie es aussieht, lassen sich die Platten gut verarbeiten und auch zuschneiden. Sieht nicht schlecht aus damit. Viele Grüße und ein schönes Wochenende
Ordinarily you would nail some small pieces of wood (furring strips) on the wall at your nailing intervals and fasten siding to them. That helps moisture to clear from between house and siding. I chose not to because ladybugs and stink bugs get in every crevice ip here. My walls are SIP so I have half inch osb to nail to mo matter where I go
Should have put the corners up first and butt the sheets to that and have like a ledger trim piece at the bottom that you can rest the sheets on while installing,shouldn’t have the sheets so close to the ground
@@breakheartorchard4761 if you don't properly lap the lap siding, the measurements will not work out to 16^ on center. Seems you caused yourself a lot of grief.
@@breakheartorchard4761 I know it's panel siding. but what's weird is if the edges are not lapped over each other. it looks like they are butted then you are caulking. What a terrible product. I was thinking this was like the LP smart side. I know it's not lap siding, but panel siding has a lap. I have no idea what you are using I guess. No wonder you are having so many problems.
@@breakheartorchard4761 I thought for sure the james hardie cedermill vertical siding was also like LP s smart side with a lap edge. no way to make sure it's a covered joint and no way to make sure it's even.
guys, it does take time. use that and slow down until you have it all done. one peace at a time. measure twice cut once. it will happen, like all shit.
From watching your recent video with the stair stringers, it is obvious that you have eons more building experience than we do. I am sure you will rock it out. Have you priced the siding recently? Originally we were thinking metal siding the price made us back off. So we started looking at alternative Because of the jump in pricing for anything made of wood, the James Hardie became “affordable “.
@@breakheartorchard4761 funny to think of hardie as affordable. It used to be more expensive then anything else. We looked at metal too and hoping to catch an auction that'll have a color we can live with. Need to decide something soon though. We'd really like to get it up before it's 100 degrees. I worked construction long time ago and used to draft houses for a living. Since then we've done our own projects here and there.
Not meaning to complain but can't help bu voice my opinion. As with all how to videos. The video becomes worthless at the moment when it becomes a music video. Also when you are demonstrating a tool, like the shears, allow the video to run at normal speed so that the viewer can get an idea of the tool worthiness.
Nice job but forget those shears! $375 and NO BATTERY!!! No way! I can complete my entire project for that much including materials and a saw. I’ve constructed a lot of things with hardi board and Archimedes.
I certainly understand. We even used one of the circular saw blades that is designed for cement siding, but I have to say I prefer the shears. the dust cloud created by the saw blade is horrible. If I was doing a small job or if i was on the clock for a very large job I might use the saw, but working on my own house, on my own schedule I liked the shears. Especially when my family members were around. I agree though, Makita is mighty proud of that saw...
Good morning what a beautiful place you have looking over the mountain the clouds blue ,the wind blowing pretty strong the siding coming alone great I like the color I bought the steer I love it have Bless weekend God Bless
You start out with jigsaw puzzles, then card games then maybe you build something. just bring back memories.
Hilarious. It is so funny how the feeling is so strong...than the memory is just that...a memory of doing something together.
You both are a great team. Good job installing the siding
Thank you. We fuss our way to success some days but the place keeps getting better.
I DO have to watch!! Im addicted!!! Love you guys!!
Karen, thank you for being here for the good and the bad. The quacks and the laughs.
i used a drywall kicker since im a drywaller , 4x9 sheets. i like those sheets because of the stucco look.good choice good call.
Glad to see you using that lever/fulcrum. That's what I was envisioning when I suggested the see-saw on the last video.
Paul, this is where it is at. Not complex but we are getting better. Jefanna.
@@jefannavital2187 Happy it's working for you. Did not like seeing you having to struggle with those heavy panels.
I lol....only because we have experienced some of the same frustrations!!!!! Great video... thanks for sharing real world construction.
Thanks. Sometimes I wish our videos were pretty and smooth all the time but that isn’t reality.
Man that dog is super fast lol on retrieving that ball!!! The siding is coming along and yup you both will get faster after it becomes a natural application then you will be finished all of a sudden. LOLOL. I would suggest a good dinner and a nice glass of wine or 2 or 3...oh heck don't even count. LOLOL Gods blessings.
Sandra... so true. Throw in the shower and life is amazing.
@@jefannavital2187 or a nice soak in a jetted tub would work too. A bit of Heaven for sure.
Enjoyed the part where a piece is broken off, and the wife wants to figure out how to fix/patch it. Sounds just like my wife and I. There's ALWAYS a way to patch it, right? Good advice about being on the same team. You guys work well together!
Good morning Break Heart and fellow subscribers. Happy weekend to u all from Jamaica 🇯🇲. Looking forward to see some more sidings on. Should be a bit easier now that u got a knock of it
Good evening Lloyd. Spring is here now. We spent the day in the orchard to be out of the way while they are putting on the roof. Hope your painting job is going well. I finished paint the back door and thought of you at work as well.
@@jefannavital2187 wow thanks much. Still got a far way to go but progressing nicely
Great choice of siding.
Cutting around the windows takes time. Looks good.
Dang... I'm a wee guy, getting ready to do my 16x10 shed with that stuff. Better day my Wheaties!!
It is heavy stuff. Good once you get it up.
Love the argument. Reminds me of my wife and I hahaha. Good stuff my friend.
Looks beautiful with concrete sheets 🌹🌹🌹
Look nice, hard work👍👍👍
Harder than we thought
@@breakheartorchard4761 : would you just paint the exterior? Would there be wood strips on seams?
Looking good so far
Thanks.
Thank you for your video. Good job guys.
Thanks for watching.
Nice teamwork
Thank you
It lopks really nice👍
Wait till next week.
have you tried using boards under your long cuts with the shears while leaving the piece centered on the stack, the idea is to have both sides supported, as the shear nears the end you can maintain focus on the cutting line and not worry about supporting the fall off. just an idea for you kids. looking great!
You sure are lucky to have such a wonderful and helpful wife. She will try to do what ever it takes to help build her home. I know what the panels weight. Please start wearing hard hats. I have been in construction for 45 Years and safety should be first. It is so easy to get hurt and happens so fast. At least put a hard hat on her.
I think I’m pretty lucky too. But when I suggested a hard hat, she flat refused.
Progress is progress no matter the size or amount. It’s looking great. As it has been said if you want to test a marriage build a house together. You two make a great team. Thanks for bringing us along. I always look forward to seeing the next video. Stay safe.
Thank you.
Oh my gosh B. There are some intense moments. David puts these together and when I review I really want to take out the fight or the failure. Guess that would not be real. Most the time I see us laughing and how fast the days go working together. I hope people see how to do it better or just relate.
great progress ,only think 1 sheet at a time ,not too many "quacks" today
When we broke that sheet all I could see was dollar signs. Those panels are so expensive. Making mistakes on those is not fun. I know we are getting better. Thanks for being here and sorry in advance for my quacking.
@@jefannavital2187 1 sheet is small potatoes on the value of your new home ,besides i know you will use it up ,i think the "quacks "are funny
We all make mistakes that's how we learn, you two are doing a great job.
Looking great buddy. Don't rush u will get it done just as with the others. If u got those sip panels up this should be as well
Thanks. Yes, we certainly gained a lot of confidence in our ability to face the unknown.
@@breakheartorchard4761 yes i think he knows this but is keeping an eye on his LABorer which she is doing a good job.
As the saying goes, we are our worst critics. Glad to hear hope in your tone and positivity looking forward. You guys are doing awesome! I didn't see you caulking to make this layer water tight, but read it in your description. Also didn't hear you state the pieces being cut down consider where the batons go, but I'm sure that is being considered. Can't wait till next video!
Every cut is a multiple of 16. So the pieces we cut down were 32 inches.
@@breakheartorchard4761 so what you're saying is I can stop yelling at my tablet, " ... what about the baton spacing?!..." ? Also, where are your roofers?
@@angeliquerider-mitchell2538 getting roofers on site is no easy task. The building boom still hasn’t stopped here.
Dude is what I hope to be when I get his age. Hoping I can stay in the gym in future years, as well. Friggin thoroughbred lookin dude. 😆
Correct me if iam wrong....
You should strap the building before panel installation.....
This is required for moisture and air gap between the siding and building
We have so many Button cap nails under the siding that it holds it off the wall about 1-2mil. Kind of like drain wrap. I think it will be ok.
I agree, hardie soaks up a bit of water and needs a place to drain both front and back. either just 1x2's or they sell this stuff thats meant for cedar roofs thats ridgid and creates a inch or so air gap
Everything we do there's a learning curve, y'all are doing great. Remember it's a Marathon not a Sprint , when building your forever home
I just don’t want it to take forever.
Mario, trying to hold on to patience. Today was warm and beautiful. A pleasure to be out in. We saw the roof going on. Feels pretty amazing. Thanks for always being positive. Jefanna
@@jefannavital2187 hope you or David were recording it
@@breakheartorchard4761 I felt this 😂
Chuck-it’s are the best thing for hyper doggos
My suggestion to you is that you run a piece of board at bottom so you can rest the sheets on it and then you wife could hold it unto the wall then you can nail it.
This is the way
Yup
You are doing a great job, is a tough one
Take a look at (Smokey mountains) is building his cabin, it might give you an idea how you put those concrete shits in easy way , all the best guys
God bless
Thank you.
@Azeddine Najib: Are you talking about Smoky Mountain Outpost? He didn't use fiber cement panels on his walls. He milled his own boards and battens from trees on his property.
Hilarious when Ginger F'd up and quacked.
that was fun !!!!!!!!!!
Well done you guys not an easy job but your smashing it! Can't wait for next one x
Thanks. We have been coming home exhausted.
@@breakheartorchard4761 but look how much you guys have done. I think your both awesome keep going it will be so worth it x
Ha! Erik is team David and I'm team Jenna! Patch that sucker! Shoot, I'd even find two small chunks and test it out 😂. Looking great guys, man they stuff looks heavy!
There are cement patch kits if something happens later on, but I’m not gonna start off with broken siding.
Suzanne, all I could see was dollar signs as it broke. Those panels are so expensive and I want to have enough material to finish. This whole process makes me grateful for people who do good work day in and day out that I had no idea was an earned skill set.
@@jefannavital2187 Yeah, that siding probably cost over $4000. I agree with you.
It's coming together now. By the time you get to the other side of the back, the battles will be over! Measure once, cut twice!!! Been there a time or two! Rome wasn't built in a day and when is break time( that board looks heavy)?
Thx for the video. what is the spacing for the nails? Distance from edge? Thx
Spacing is really your choice. We went 16 inches and about 1/2-3/4 inch from the edge. Battens are 2.5 inches so they will be able to cover the edges. On the upper areas we went 12 inch.
@@breakheartorchard4761 do you nail in the center also??
Those plates looks very much like something we used to build our garage and then covered them up with horizontal overlapping board as the plates sucked up water like you wouldn't belive. So I really hope you are using something else as the outer shell of your house or that your fiber cement plates are very different from what we used. But since we built our garage over 10 years ago, such plates might have changed a lot since we use them.
Hopefully you know a lot better than me how those sheet work than me and that they are very different than the fiber cement sheets we used back then. I remembered why I hated them when you broke that first piece and then the memories came flooding back. Basically the fiber cement sheets we got was fully unusable as the outer sheet of a building, but my dad wanted to use them because we got them really cheap. Thankfully we figured out how bad they worked against rain early enough to fix the issue by adding a second layer on top of them out of painted wood.
Today, I'm almost sure that my dad would have used those fake plastic wood boards that is getting more and more used if he could do it all over again. But then he has always been about getting things done quick, even if its shoddy work as long as it works (that point actually broke my parent apart too, because my mum was the total opposite that way. And both me and my brother is somewhere in-between.)
This product, James Hardie, has a long history of being a premium siding product. I had Hardie board lap siding on my last house and liked it. If you seal and paint it properly, it holds up very well
@@breakheartorchard4761 Good to know, they just looked so damned much like the panels we just so long ago that were a total disaster even when we followed the manufacturing instruction. Mind you this was like 15 years ago and the panels were a new thing around here.
Hi I love your videos. Do you have a date for the roof installation. Your house looks great. I love the design.
Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone. I am editing video of the roofers right now.
Great Job... what type of nails did you use ?
Hitachi 2 1/4 x .092 exterior grade coil nails. 15 degree. Hitachi is Metabo now.
Thanks for the video! What did you guts use for the seams?
Sealed with caulk and we are putting battens over them.
Hope that you have put the joins in the right places for your battens, if not checked right your battens will not work out properly!
I first thought the same thing, but if they caulk the seams before painting, you'll probably never see them. The evenly spaced battens will take care of any distraction.
Have you tried a sheetrock lift pedal to lift the concrete board
Gonna pick one up this week
I thought it was recommended to use respirators for fiber-cement installation?
Not cutting with a saw. The shears create almost no dust.
Measure twice cut once (Carpentry) Figuratively, when describing oneself) Plan and prepare careful and thorough manner before taking action!
Could you please explain what you are putting on the panel edges before you put on the wall?
Just paint. Instructions were to paint the cut edges to seal them.
Hi fiber cement is weight, you can use cement board ( durock, aqua panel...)
Whether or not Jeffana lifted on the end there was just no way that third sheet was going to survive being lifted flat!! Even lifting it vertically was probably going to be fatal, there was just too much cut out. The lifting lever was the right idea but don't you have a piece of pipe or other round stock laying around you can use as the fulcrum? Then you can move it towards or away from the wall as needed and still have a wider piece attached to the 2 x 4 distributing the load thereby reducing crushing on the bottom of the panel.. And for gosh sake just step on the end rather than leaning over and pressing on the end. For all the "teething problems" you two are making progress and that, as ever. is good to see. Chances are "Murphy" will make sure that this task will be ending just as you are getting good at it :-). Take best care of yourselves and we'll look forward to the next instalment of your trials, tribulations and successes!
I agree.
@68Jaguar420G: If there is a possibly of damage to the edge of the panel, a small piece of PVC pipe slotted lengthwise and placed on the lifting edge will eliminate that problem.
What white stuff were you rolling onto the edges of the panels?
Just plain old house paint. You need to paint all cut edges to seal them.
We just hung 24 sheets off ladders, scaffolding on huge dormers.
Is your Tyvek directly on the studs or do you have another wood barrier underneath? I'm about to do some fiber cement myself, and am debating if I can put it directly on studs (with tyvek) or if I need to put a wood barrier up before the tyvek first.
Sounds like you need some sheathing for shear strength.
@@breakheartorchard4761 thanks for responding. I'll make sure to do that. Appreciate it.
Great job guys! What are you rolling on the end cuts, just primer?
Just paint. The siding sheets came pre-primed. Instructions say to paint all cut edges to seal them.
What do you do with the seems between each panel? Thx
I am editing a video right now about this. We use alex plus and caulk the seams. Then we will nail battens on them. The seems will be covered with a batten, creating a board and batten look.
@@breakheartorchard4761 thanks, are you using strips of the siding for the batten?? I’m just about to start a similar project but with only 1 window..😜
@@jeffsond I use the james Hardie battens. They are about 2 3/8” wide and about 3/4 inch thick. Around windows the have trim available in multiple widths. Siding nailer for the panels and a heavy duty trim nailer for battens and trim. 15 guage or thicker. Have a small punch available when doing trim to seat nails correctly.
Correction. I said trim nailer. I believe it is a finish nailer for the battens and trim. Again 15 gauge is better than 16. The specs say you can use 16 but they don’t drive well in that material.
I’m doing board and batten LP siding on my place. I’m going to do a 1x6 trim piece on the bottom of the wall and then come back and place all my panels on top of that. Z flashing on top of the trim should prevent leaking.
Doing it by myself, I can’t figure out any other way to do it.
Can you tell me what nails you used? stainless steel? Size?
Also what did you use for the batten strips? Size? Type of product?
Doing this to my house now. Thanks
Hitachi (now metabo) coil siding nailer. I recall looking for stainless but I think we just used the regular hit dipped galvanized. 2 1/4 inch. Battens are 2 1/2 inch james hard 1 inch thick. We went ceder mill battens and flat siding panel. And we still have not done the battens. Been too busy on the inside of the house. We only did one test batten so far.
Hitachi (now metabo) coil siding nailer. I recall looking for stainless but I think we just used the regular hit dipped galvanized. 2 1/4 inch. Battens are 2 1/2 inch james hard 1 inch thick. We went ceder mill battens and flat siding panel. And we still have not done the battens. Been too busy on the inside of the house. We only did one test batten so far. For the battens you use a 16 g finish nailer.
What a great dog bring a ball to you
Any reason you didn't use channel molds instead of battons?
I don’t think I understand the question. Do you mean the plastic channel molds?
@Break Heart Orchard yes but not plastic, they're aluminum, I believe.
@ 1:29 So that is $529 here in Oklahoma to fill.:(
$5.99/Gallon for me.
Can you actually ditch the particle boards and install cement siding right away?
You can install the cement siding as soon as your schedule allows. But these are SIPs walls so the particle board is structural.
@@breakheartorchard4761 Thank you for your response! Our house (two story) also uses these particle boards for structural support. The issue is that the builder cut corners when excavating and building. One side of the house has the wood and the slab level with ground causing rot. I wonder if I could replace at least the bottom part with cement ones and seal it for good.
@@ToxaJart consult a professional because I am just telling you what I would do off the cuff. Excavate around the house so the soil no longer touched the wood. Cut off the osb, treat the studs, replace the osb with new osb then do a proper install of the siding. You cant use it to replace osb. It doesn’t have shear strength. I’m sorry your builder put you in that position.
@@breakheartorchard4761 Thank you for your input! I appreciate it!
Looks awesome, we have a much smaller job and this helped. How did the painting go?
Jefanna painted with a roller. It takes paint very well.
Your placing nails all over those panels. Place nails with the same pattern to every sheet. Try to place the nails so they all follow the same pattern. Looks and is much more professional. I can’t tell what kind of nails you are using but if they have heads this is even more important. Just take your time, this is the finish you are working on. GOOD LUCK GUYS ‼️👍👍. Vinny 🇺🇸
I appreciate the concern and advice. Nails are properly spaced and following a pattern. It may not look like it on the video. I will spend a moment tomorrow when we are up there, talking about it, for next week’s video.
Can I get the name of the siding used? Or a link?
We used James Hardie vertical siding.
www.jameshardie.com/?loc=refresh
www.jameshardie.com/products/hardiepanel-vertical-siding
No strapping?
Strapping is whats called for in the Manual. But i have hundreds of button nails that lift the siding slightly away from the wall similar to drain wrap. Strapping seems like an opportunity for insects to make nests.
Thanks for sharing. We also built a SIPS house and want to use the Fiber panels. What machine did you use to cut? No masks I thought you needed protection from fiber dust? How does it look a year later? Anything you would have done differently or still like the fiber panels? thanjks!
Still looks good. We haven’t put the battens up yet. Been working inside the house. We’ve been told we should have put firring strips behind the siding to create an air space to fight agains moisture. I’m not worried. Only time will tell.
We used these Makita Shears. Creates almost no dust.
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How do you lay out the installation of the fiber cement panels so that the battens land on seams between panels?
Sheets are 48 inch wide. Pattens are spaced 16 inches.
When the finish roofing go on.
Next video I hope
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HARDI SOFFIT PANEL IS 16" WIDE AND MUCH EASIER TO LIFT SECTION AND YOUR BATTENS SPACE EQUALLY.
Didn’t even know they had that product.
and sometimes cheaper too! You can also get them in 24" wide.
We broke one that was for window exactly same way. Happens
How not to do hardie panels...
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Ich muss mal fragen, was sind das für Platten, die Ihr anbringt? Was kommt da noch drauf? Wie es aussieht, lassen sich die Platten gut verarbeiten und auch zuschneiden. Sieht nicht schlecht aus damit.
Viele Grüße und ein schönes Wochenende
Es ist Faserzement Abstellgleis. Die Marke ist "James Hardie". Ich kenne die Verfügbarkeit in Deutschland nicht.
Do the battens need to be nailed on a stud?
Ordinarily you would nail some small pieces of wood (furring strips) on the wall at your nailing intervals and fasten siding to them. That helps moisture to clear from between house and siding. I chose not to because ladybugs and stink bugs get in every crevice ip here. My walls are SIP so I have half inch osb to nail to mo matter where I go
Should have put the corners up first and butt the sheets to that and have like a ledger trim piece at the bottom that you can rest the sheets on while installing,shouldn’t have the sheets so close to the ground
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Should have all the window and door trim up first then butt the sheets to the trim
The horizontal Hardie board is easier to install.
I would think so. This has brought some challenges.
aren't those lapped edges? seems like you cut off laps and butted them together. I guess they are not lapped. Ok.
Not lapped we are covering the seems for board and batten look.
@@breakheartorchard4761 if you don't properly lap the lap siding, the measurements will not work out to 16^ on center. Seems you caused yourself a lot of grief.
@@surveyguyor8958 it is not lap siding.
@@breakheartorchard4761 I know it's panel siding. but what's weird is if the edges are not lapped over each other. it looks like they are butted then you are caulking. What a terrible product. I was thinking this was like the LP smart side. I know it's not lap siding, but panel siding has a lap. I have no idea what you are using I guess. No wonder you are having so many problems.
@@breakheartorchard4761 I thought for sure the james hardie cedermill vertical siding was also like LP s smart side with a lap edge. no way to make sure it's a covered joint and no way to make sure it's even.
Next time the pump runs slow. Let off the handle and wait 10 seconds and then squeeze the trigger again. 99/100 times it fixes it.
I tried every trick I knew. Nothing worked. I have not been back to that place.
guys, it does take time. use that and slow down until you have it all done. one peace at a time. measure twice cut once. it will happen, like all shit.
How can he not lift that sheet by himself looks like a tall and strong man it seems like her wife was doing more work than he was.
She outworks me 90% of the time.
when you do the same thing wrong more then one time its not the tools.
Duct tape man.... it'll never show!
You guys aren't making us feel better about siding our place soon.......
You had Jefanna laughing with that one.
From watching your recent video with the stair stringers, it is obvious that you have eons more building experience than we do. I am sure you will rock it out. Have you priced the siding recently? Originally we were thinking metal siding the price made us back off. So we started looking at alternative Because of the jump in pricing for anything made of wood, the James Hardie became “affordable “.
@@breakheartorchard4761 funny to think of hardie as affordable. It used to be more expensive then anything else. We looked at metal too and hoping to catch an auction that'll have a color we can live with. Need to decide something soon though. We'd really like to get it up before it's 100 degrees.
I worked construction long time ago and used to draft houses for a living. Since then we've done our own projects here and there.
@@breakheartorchard4761 she laughed because it's "true" or because you've tried that before?
Every vehicle ha a roll of tape. My truck has black orange and white
struggle-bus
YOUY BOTH JUST NEED TO STOP, IF I DID THAT ON MY JOBS I WOULD EVENTUALLY GO BROKE. I MEAN STOP AND WALK AWAY AND COME BACK IN A BIT, RE GROUP
So slow
Not meaning to complain but can't help bu voice my opinion. As with all how to videos. The video becomes worthless at the moment when it becomes a music video. Also when you are demonstrating a tool, like the shears, allow the video to run at normal speed so that the viewer can get an idea of the tool worthiness.
Nice job but forget those shears! $375 and NO BATTERY!!! No way! I can complete my entire project for that much including materials and a saw. I’ve constructed a lot of things with hardi board and Archimedes.
I certainly understand. We even used one of the circular saw blades that is designed for cement siding, but I have to say I prefer the shears. the dust cloud created by the saw blade is horrible. If I was doing a small job or if i was on the clock for a very large job I might use the saw, but working on my own house, on my own schedule I liked the shears. Especially when my family members were around. I agree though, Makita is mighty proud of that saw...