Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: siding

[Matt Lawrence (matt]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 HeidiNYS [at] aol.com wrote:

> Do you have a contact with anyone selling one of the Cement Fibre sidings, 
> Hardie CertainTee, etc??

Well, I've spoken with the James Hardie folks a couple of times.
 
> Several of us are building within Cantines Island coHo, here in Saugerties, 
> NY.  We'd wanted to apply the siding painted, however
> We've been warned that it's un-doably pricey to get the siding already 
> painted.
> Also that the paint gets  damaged in installation.

I don't know that I've ever seen pre-painted HardiePlank, but pre-primed 
is readily available.

I'm working on replacing the crappy pressboard siding on my house with 
Hardieplank and I plan on painting it first, but I'm waiting for the 
weather to cool off a bit here in Texas.  I expect it to collect minor 
dings and scrapes during installation, but touch up should be easier than 
trying to paint my entire two story house.

I suggest that if you are going to be doing the work yourselves that you 
may want to consider doing the way I am.  If you're going to hire 
somebody, I suggest not confusing them by asking for something that 
they've never done before.

-- Matt

-- 
>From my heart and from my hand, why don't people understand my intention?

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