How to repair and replace damaged siding: Hardie board, Masonite or Cement Fiber Board siding
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Whether you call it: Masonite Siding, Hardie Board or Cement Fiber Board, it’s a great siding option for your home. If not properly maintain it can fall into disrepair and need to be replaced, but don’t fret, it’s not that hard of a job to master.
In this episode of The Saw Dust Dude, Todd will carry you through a step by step process of replacing damaged siding, address some of the reasons that failures occur and get your home looking great again!
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I'd consider it if the pumped up rockabilly intro was removed.
@@deanb949Agree. Check out my newer videos, less intro. We all grow and learn. Thanks for watching
What do you do if that hardieboard profile/colour isn't available anymore?
@@gregorymosher5008 Take an old piece to Sherwin Williams and have in color matched. It will be close but not much to do when color isn't available. Good luck with the project! Thanks for watching and please Subscribe 🍀🍺
Leaf blower! solid idea. No messing around with cement dusts.
@@livingimprovements4382 thanks my friend. Good luck on your project. Thanks for watching and please Subscribe 🍀🍺
Thank You! We have a Double Wide Mobile,from 1996, & the siding is soon to be painted for the 1st time, & realized a few boards are water damaged, made out of some sort of Saw Dust ,Particle board,& my husband,TRIED,to pry off the damaged boards,but they Would Not Budge, ...... I watched Your video,in hopes of Figuring Out "The Secret " to prying them off, & I Do feel,you've Helped me understand it all,better! 😂
I can tell you take a lot of pride in your work. Not too caulky.
Aye, thanks my friend. Good luck on your project 🍀. Thanks for watching and please Subscribe 🍺
This was excellent. Thank you. I need to change almost the exact same thing on my house.
Awesome, thanks for the encouragement. Good luck on your project, thanks for watching and please Subscribe!
Great video and tips! I've done new siding before but have never replaced a piece. I have to replace a broken piece on my house. I assumed I was going to have to surface nail my board, but I like the idea of adding a shim behind the top board so I can hide the screws.
Awesome and thanks for watching!
When doing screws at a angle and not straight on your not using the head screw properly to hold Hardie in place.
Also you have a screw being not properly seated thus causing head of screw to protrude out hitting the Hardie board being put down on top ,and if he drilled head farther in past the the Hardie so the second peace lays flat it's will compromise the structure or the integrity of the Hardie board thus causing failure later in life.
@Cookinitmax what is the best way to fix the replacement board? Genuinely interested as need to do this same repair to 3 boards that came down in a recent storm! Board above obscures the previous fixing which look like oval head framing nails, so I was thinking of using some 15ga galv nails and trying to shim the board above, and shoot up at an angle to fix the replacement board....
@@cookinitmax The HardiPlank website has instructions, which specifically state not to slant the nails. Instead, it shows how to face nail for repairs. Like you, I also cannot see how the screws in the video would not be angled?
@@cookinitmax I think you may be overthinking it. Face nailing is going to decrease the life of the board too if not caulked often. The way he did his repair seemed like a good approach for aesthetics. He did secure the board above the one replaced with finish nails. The best approach is an impractical one. Pull all the siding above the one to be replaced then reattach the good siding. This also has it's problems: needing to upsize the nails so they will bite and hold the siding in place securely on the studs or risk cracking the siding if you nail adjacent to where it was previously nailed. I came here to see a repair method for hardie plank his seems like a reasonable practical approach. Now that Hardie has been out a while I see a lot of 1st run deterioration. This stuff isn't wood that will swell and seal the nail when it's painted or gets wet probably the reason it's not recommended to face nail it for installation. Maybe I'm the one overthinking it.
Great work Saw Dust Dude. I have this exact job at my house.
Thanks and good luck on your project. Thanks for watching and please Subscribe 🍀🍺
Watching you remove the bottom board, it didn't seem to have screws from the previous install. Won't adding the screws make it more difficult for a second removal?
Thanks Saw Dust! Great video. I did Hardie for a summer but never had to replace a lower board. I hear you about the silica dust.... eventually it starts to smell sweet, that cant be good. LOL
Awesome, and yes the dust is No Bueno! Thanks for watching and please Subscribe 🍀🍺
thanks for the vid. helped me understand what I need to do!
Cool deal. Thanks for watching and please Subscribe. Good luck on your project 🍀🍺
“It’ll make your babies be born naked.” Lol!!!😂
🤣😁. Thanks for watching and please Subscribe 🍀🍺
I laughed out loud at that too hahaha
The bottom part should be 1/4” from the bottom concrete, too
Excellent
Thank you!
In repair situations I know you can only do so much so not directing this at you but the original installer should have put more clearance between the Hardie and the bricks.. Either flashing, pvc trim, boral, etc. If this is hz5 it needs to be 2" or hz10 would be atleast 1"
Josh you are spot on my friend. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video. What is best way to repair blemishes, nail holes in cement siding? And should I caulk the board vehicle board,and batten boards?
Thanks for watching. Caulk is the only way that I know for nail holes, small blemishes, etc. I do caulk batten boards and trim. Thanks again
Thanks! Appreciate the vid :)
Thanks so very much! Good luck on your project!
Shin and hide screws💪
Thanks dude and thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video. What type of screws are you using? Stainless/galvanized, head type, length, etc.
Thanks for watching. I use exterior decking type screws, they make a finish screw which has a smaller head, 1 1/2". Good luck on your project and please Subscribe 🍀
And should I calk the verticle board and batton?
Great video. How did you deal with the nails before removing/sliding out the piece of hardy board?
Thanks Wally. I just pull the piece out, then pull the nails out of the wall after the piece is removed. Thanks for watching and please Subscribe. Good luck on your project 🍀🍺
Thanks for the video. We just discovered that our builder's lack of quality apparently one of our boards was predrilled, but not attached so is falling off. It is the absolutely bottom one. Do I want the clowns who did a crappy job come back or do it ourselves ? I vote for your video and doing it ourselves.
All right DIY ! Thanks for watching and please Subscribe! Good luck on your project 🍀🍺
Curious why you face trim nailed and caulked the 2nd board up. It was already secure right. I fixed mine and it looks like shit because i face nailed and caulked. Your sceews and shim idea i like but im afraid to tear the top board thanks
Can't remember exactly why I faced nailed, many times on repairs I try to match the original work when I have to blend in new work with old. Try my best to not make it look like a patch or repair job. Thanks for watching and please Subscribe 🍀🍺
Thanks for good video! What type and size nails are you using in the nail gun you used?
2" 18 gauge. Thanks for watching!
how do you locate your studs along the outside wall? do you just visually mark them when you take the siding off?
Eric, yes you can do that, make a light pencil mark on the siding above or a piece of painters tape so you can be locate the studs. A stud finder on deep scan can also locate. Thanks for watching, please like this video and subscribe.
Great lesson , thank you so much. I was going to hire a guy to replace two runs in different places and he told me he had to take all of the runs from the top to get to the ones were broken, I saw your video and he didn’t get the job.
One question, my runs are on the south walls one right at the bottom and the other two runs above up high about 15’. So I need to screw the tops to secure them or just nails would do? Thank you for your answer.
hey man, how would you go about fastening lose ends of hardieboard? Ive got a 2 story house and about 40ish loose boards ends (wish i could attach a picture to youtube). The boards are starting to slightly bow at the ends and I need to refasten those areas to get it tight again. I called a siding company and they wanted $7200, so its time for me to rent a scaffold and fix the boards lol.
I got the same problem did you ever figure out what to do?
Sorry if you said it, but what caulk are you using behind the board?
No problem, good question. I used DAP latex caulk, it's a 40 year paintable caulk. Good luck on your project. 🍀🍺 Thanks for watching and please Subscribe!
Nice repair. What type blade did you use to cut the hardie board?
Thanks for watching. I use a diamond cement blade. Thanks again and please Subscribe
I have tried many types of blades.
The best has been the actual red hardy backer.
Recently I went to shears. I did a modest size house and see no change in cut quality from the first cut. Well except, after practice, they got better!
Dust becomes a none issue.
I also use diamond jig saw blades.
Do not hit wood with a Hardibacker blade. Woops...
Thanks for a really useful video, with the one exception that your starting/ending music is incredibly loud compared to everything else! :(
What type of nails did you use?
Galvanized screw nails, so they back out. Good luck on your project. Thanks for watching and please Subscribe 🍀🍺
Go ahead and get shears.
They have come down in price, to the point you will save on blades.
There is much much less dust, and it's quiet.
The kerf is headding for 5/16".
I use a flat file to clean up.
All cuts and the entire back of the first course get two coats of paint.
Cut around, say, a window usually get painted on the back too.
I find caulk causes problems, trapping weather.
I have to replace impact damaged, screwed on, Hardibacker in the middle of a field.
I guess a multi tool to cut the screws, then face nail.
Not my favorite kinda job.
No saw dust involved!
I talked to Hardie they say it's ok to butt boards up.
Thing is you need to seal the end cuts not just caulk over.
You are exactly right. All siding like this is butt jointed. Lay down caulk under the end of one board and where the next board will join (under and on the end) then install next board. Thanks for watching
Cracking boards, thus don't heavy caulk.