Re: [GBlist] hardiplank

["Mark Marcoplos" <marcoplos@mindspring.com>]

Makita makes a saw designed to withstand the rigors of cutting Hardiplank.
It works well with a diamond blade.

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Shepard" <sbtdesigns@earthlink.net>
To: "Alan Abrams, A.I.B.D." <awabrams@starpower.net>;
<greenbuilding@crest.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [GBlist] hardiplank


> 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.
>
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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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