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Cement Fiber Siding Installation

Bob confers with contractor Arnold Johnson of Crosswinds Enterprises, as he installs siding on the Roxbury House in Boston.

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Cement Fiber Siding Installation

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" If the cement fiber. Board it comes already pre stained with two coats of stain you can get it in a variety of colors. Termites don't go for it it's fireproof its impact resistant there's a lot of reasons to use this. Especially -- projects like we're involved with here now the big question is -- it is easy to work with as -- let's check in with Arnold our contractor. -- I don't know but I like working where this stuff. It's not too bad but you are using a water will water just program excessive dust. Yeah when it's windy is. -- bad yeah you're working -- it all day long you don't want to be in having all the cement dust well let me hold a -- soda and -- cuts. I'm back. -- off like about you know you want done the land this plane or boat gently working right now. And so it nails up with regular. Let go ring nail -- Now what you have to do here first but we'll want to flop splashing. To help protect us. The water table -- that's a nice detail that happy note the new house they. The the wood trim along the base here for the water table and then you've got to -- trip here what's the purpose of this. We want shingles that have them. Continuous kicked out all the way for the for the water table. So this is access to stop it stripping it looked a little angle an awful sheds water. So it's essentially little are extra but the bottom that'll. Take that shingled. -- may get angle out that's right. Good it will look like tapered clobbered the I -- ready to start putting section -- will you be shooting them on. It would make -- diplomatic tool yeah. -- What's the exposure. Six interest -- for the web. And you've got to mark. The bottom mark right yes. So that'll give us six inches to the weather. Okay. And now this next one judging from the bottom of the window and your mark. We're going to have to notch to notch it out right this well I don't lock. On the casing. And we're going to -- not exactly an inch and a quarter. OK -- to get at is that there that we will have the uniform exposure. To the weather in all of these different Roberts. Okay that's right on the mark. Negative same exposure. -- through the ring shank nails that we're using for this are. The galvanized there some sort of lightweight alloy they've -- very very little."

" Another advantage of this cement -- product is the fact that it comes with a fifty year warranty. It's really moisture resistant there's a 25 year warranty on earnings -- that we apply it. These cement fiber clapboard -- numerous different companies. Around the country this one -- made back up because sampling."

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