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Installing Fiber-Cement Siding

While the house is being dried out, the siding can be put in place. The furring strips are attached to the foam exterior with an adhesive foam. Fasteners are used to affix the fiber cement siding and make sure it's secure. Bob talks with Jack Armour from Powers Fasteners about the fasteners used to secure the siding. Holes are drilled into the structure that are the same diameter as the fasteners . The fasteners are built with a "S" shape and are heat treated so that when the fasteners exert pressure against the cement walls and heat up, they try to return to their original shap, causing them to tighten their grip within the walls . Powers Fasteners is a company that is almost 100 years old. The fasteners were originally made of jute and then gradually started being made of plastic. HardiPlank, a product made of fiber cement, will be used for the siding. The planks are made of a mix of wood fiber and cement, which work well together. The planks are durable and hold paint well. The siding being used is prefinished.

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Installing Fiber-Cement Siding

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" So while the house is drying out and all this interior work is going and we can also be putting the siding on right and because it's a concrete shell Howard. How do you go about putting on the furring strips we attach the furring strips with the adhesive to the foam exterior structure. And then you need these fasteners to make sure that the siting and everything is."

" Not gonna go anywhere and -- here -- powers and out of these things work of vale do was to simply. Drill a hole and drive them right same diameter as the as the diameter of the of the fastener OK so as far as this is concerned. A quarter inch diameter you don't -- into your substrate right through you. Here. Two -- here. Right into the masonry exactly does."

" That that wrinkle in the front end of it that little."

" CS -- yes shape version of that what happens is it's bent and it's manufactured. With the F shaped -- America yeah and then that -- that turns into heat treating process. Which one once they heat treat that process and they drive that into the hole. It exerts pressure against the walls of concrete because it has memory wants you back to that fascia. "

" That's -- if you -- now this is the company is almost a century old with this kind of product correct I -- bastard -- Only known as the WellPoint company it was a European European company which they were the first time. Manufacturers of masonry anchor which was marketed by the powers family and -- about 75 light years ago in the United States they really make them out of jute. Yeah I was in jute fiber plug with a yacht lead based insert and then that evolved into the lead shields that which then came into the plastic. They came into the plastic wonderful well thanks very up very well."

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