Re: [GBlist] hardiplank

["Steven Shepard" <sbtdesigns@earthlink.net>]

I know I have ruined a skill saw on Hardi and it blows dust everywhere.
Makes a mess - wear a dust mask.  Even so,  it holds up better in our
climate than anything else available.

SBT Designs
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Abrams, A.I.B.D." <awabrams@starpower.net>
To: <greenbuilding@crest.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:29 PM
Subject: [GBlist] hardiplank


> I work in the Washington, DC area.  I've been using Cemplank, a fiber
cement
> siding similar to Hardi, for four years now.  It's a little softer and
more
> fibrous, but the carpenters like it because it nails easier than Hardi.
> (Hardi is more dense and brittle--if you use it, i recommend drilling
pilot
> holes before nailing.  I've done some unscientific testing on both
products,
> immersing unfinished samples in water for 30 days.  Hardi comes out
> absolutely immuted--it seems to have the absorbtion capacity of a sheet of
> glass.  Cemplank's surface seems to absorb a little, but not enough to
> measurably swell the width or thickness of the panel.  Cemplank holds
paint
> tenaciously.
>
> My working assumption that the limit of its service life will be the
> substrate or the nail, not the product itself.
>
> By the same token, red cedar shingles on houses built in the Teens and
> Twenties are still going strong here.
>
> Alan Abrams, AIBD
>
>
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