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Replacing siding. It is currently 30 year old cedar.
Posted on 5/29/20 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 5/29/20 at 5:00 pm
Contractors all recommending hardi or similar. Doesn’t it require similar maintenance and painting? They claim it involves less maintenance.
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Posted on 5/29/20 at 5:24 pm to Dawgfanman
I'd put new cedar on. We have shingles with bleaching stain to help the graying process. No maintenance. Ecoshel is the company that makes them....great product.
This post was edited on 5/29/20 at 5:25 pm
Posted on 5/29/20 at 5:53 pm to Dawgfanman
Hardie is essentially maintenance free. Cedar is wood. I’ve had both a wood siding house and hardie. Wood may look slightly better but man is hardie nice to just be done with it. Hardie is so stable, no expand/contract issues, no re-caulking, etc.
Posted on 5/29/20 at 6:16 pm to Coon
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Hardie is essentially maintenance free. Cedar is wood. I’ve had both a wood siding house and hardie. Wood may look slightly better but man is hardie nice to just be done with it. Hardie is so stable, no expand/contract issues, no re-caulking, etc.
Mine looks like shite so I’m sure either will look great to me. Guy today wanted to do the primed and then paint Hardie. Not the prepainted. We will see what the quotes look like here. Getting new siding, deck, soffit repair, couple of windows and sliding door to deck. I’m pretty frightened to see the quotes, lol.
Posted on 5/29/20 at 6:27 pm to Dawgfanman
The main thing I'd consider before installing Hardie is if your framework is nice and plumb and pretty much each stud face is in line with the other if you look down the side of the house from one end to the other.
A lot of older homes will have wall studs that bow in or out a bit and when they nail the Hardie to it then it can look kind of wavy.
A lot of older homes will have wall studs that bow in or out a bit and when they nail the Hardie to it then it can look kind of wavy.
Posted on 5/29/20 at 6:40 pm to Dawgfanman
We replaced cedar with hardie and it looks incredible. I expect little maintenance. But I guess I won't know for a while. I'm very pleased.
Posted on 5/29/20 at 7:10 pm to Dawgfanman
my siding is painted redwood.
it was installed in the 70s and still looks ok, but there are rotted spots that need replacing
I’m going back and forth on just removing everything and installing hardi, it will be expensive but every house I’ve seen with it looks sharp
it was installed in the 70s and still looks ok, but there are rotted spots that need replacing
I’m going back and forth on just removing everything and installing hardi, it will be expensive but every house I’ve seen with it looks sharp
Posted on 5/29/20 at 10:22 pm to Dawgfanman
I just pressure washed my cedar siding and stained it. Looks like new again. Cedar lasts forever, there’s no reason to change it.
Posted on 5/29/20 at 10:54 pm to tigers9898
Unless you try and paint it. Two neighbors of mine have cedar and both had it painted recently. If not done by someone who knows cedar it will peel pretty quick. One had it painted 2 years ago and is already peeling.
Posted on 5/29/20 at 11:26 pm to Dawgfanman
Haha if you think Hardi is gonna last 30 years
Posted on 5/30/20 at 1:21 pm to Cracker
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Haha if you think Hardi is gonna last 30 years
Why would it not? Serious question. It doesn’t rot. The only thing it could do is deteriorate. Is that going to be spontaneous? Like unprotected with water penetrating it. In that case, the framing would rot as well.
Posted on 6/2/20 at 8:16 am to Dawgfanman
Take it down and reinstall inside out.
Posted on 6/2/20 at 8:24 am to mingoswamp
I used paint grade Hardie on my guest house. Over all, I like and think it is a good produce. It took the paint real good, but I used a spray gun to paint it. Came out great. 
On a side note. IT does move some. I will have to go back and recork a couple spots. More so on the south side were sun hits it the most.
On a side note. IT does move some. I will have to go back and recork a couple spots. More so on the south side were sun hits it the most.
Posted on 6/2/20 at 8:35 am to fishfighter
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IT does move some. I will have to go back and recork a couple spots. More so on the south side were sun hits it the most.
really, that's surprising. is this once it got settled in or yearly/periodically? my old house with wood felt like i was caulking/touching up every year. On my shed, i had one wall that faced the west directly and was all hardie (no openings) and got beat down by that afternoon sun and never gave me issues.
On that same note, we painted the house and the shed at the same time. the house almost needed a new paint job when we decided to sell, shed looked perfect.
like i said, wood is beautiful but boy you gotta work on it (and because of this, no wood on the outside of my new house other than porch ceilings).
Posted on 6/2/20 at 11:31 am to Coon
It's really not to bad, so I haven't did anything to it. Been about two years from painting it. Looks as good to the day I had painted it other then needing a washing. 
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