Mixing Vinyl And Hardie Board

While both vinyl and fiber cement are rot resistant and pest resistant unlike traditional wood planks hardie board siding is inflammable warp resistant engineered for climate and impact resistant.

Mixing vinyl and hardie board.

Precision contributes much of their success to their all in relationship with james hardie. Mixing vinyl and hardie board on new addition. It s in pretty good shape and ideally i don t want to paint it. Hardie board is a fiber cement board made from sand cement and wood fibers that was introduced in the 1980s as an alternative to vinyl siding.

Like vinyl it s very durable. In this respect it is like vinyl. Currently the soffits and eaves and gable areas have vinyl siding a cream color. Cement board siding in its current form was introduced by james hardie in the 1980s hence the name hardie board like vinyl it is also extremely hard wearing and durable but it is much heavier to work with.

In 2014 precision installed two small jobs featuring james hardie siding and 32 vinyl jobs. I have seen this done and it works. Have a 1930 s house i gutting renovating and adding an addition to the back it will be an apartment. It is also quickly becoming a popular option for housing exteriors.

In the u s vinyl exterior siding can be found on twice as many homes as any other siding material. But the gable ends in this case will be creased copper panels. The clapboards will be on the wall below and that is where i am considering mixing materials the problem i have with fc is that it is too consistent.