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We are planning a large addition to our house. Since three sides of the house are involved, re-siding the entire house seems reasonable at the same time. We do not like the appearance of steel/vinyl/aluminum siding. Does anyone have recommendations or experience re: the concrete fiber siding that is on the market? Or would you stay with cedar or redwood. Cost is not as important to us as is appearance, repairability, and long-term value.
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To learn about cement board siding use the
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in the search box. There has already been a lot of discussion about fiber cement board siding here at Breaktime.
*First choice to me would certainly be cedar. It is a superior product.Hardie has it's fans on this forum. I've never used it, so I can't comment on it.Congratulations on choosing to avoid plastic.There has been much discussion regarding film products over claps. Do searches using "backpriming", "rain screen", etc to find them. Don't forget to check the archives as well.Best of luck...
*I'm a remodeler that totally refused to put plastic or aluminum on my own house. I used 3/4 cedar with one coat of bahr solid color stain. That was almost 3 years ago and it still looks like i just painted it. Although I want to repaint it, of coarse time is always a problem. I tend to shy away from new products. If you do choose cedar do some research on application, new idea's have recently come forward.
*Another vote here for cedar. From the land of vinyl.MD
*Given a choice - it will always be cedar - either shingles or drop (beveled) siding. Be aware that there is nothing "magic" about cedar. Unprotected and over time it will become very brittle and wear rapidly. Cedar needs it's resiliency in order to last - always use something on it. My favorites are oils (Cabot's Natural Cedar Tone) and stains. I can't imagine painting cedar.
*I'll chime in for cedar as well. We used cedar siding on the lower parts of all walls and sawn cedar shingles in the gable ends and a second story gable. It gave a little more visual interest to have two textures of the same material. Use the finish (I used natural oil) on all SIX sides of each piece (i.e. front, back, top, bottom, AND both ends). Also miter the ends so you can't see through to the white Tyvek underneath. If you can get it sealed a week in advance, it will absorb more of the oil and not be quite as messy to handle. It's tempting to nail it up dry and oil/stain/seal it later, but you'll never get another chance to seal the back and it will look more even then you could ever do afterwards. -David Kenai, Alaska
*Another idea for 3/4 lap cedar. Dowl the butt joints, worked great for me. Always seen other jobs with butt joints twisting apart. And yes, seal all sides of wood, wish I knew that before I installed mine!
*One more vote for cedar .....stain all sides, no paint.
*When installing redwood siding on my place, I used "Super Deck" natural oil finish on all sides before installing. I built a long trough of 1x4's with an attached rack to hold a couple dripping lengths of siding. I covered the whole thing in the plastic sheeting that shipped with the lumber. I set the trough with a slight pitch to one end, then set the 5gal. bucket of oil at the low end. I placed a fountain pump, with 25' of vinyl tubing attached in the full bucket, strapped the other end to a wide brush and plugged it in. The pump fed oil to the brush continuously and kept the solution stirred. After a couple minutes there was enough oil flowing down the trough to soak the back side while a single stroke with the oil fed brush did the face. I made some drying racks which held the siding, hidden edge down. My nephew made 5 cents a foot doing the work while I nailed up (stainless steel ring shank nails) the previous day's work. Worked like a dream!
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We are planning a large addition to our house. Since three sides of the house are involved, re-siding the entire house seems reasonable at the same time. We do not like the appearance of steel/vinyl/aluminum siding. Does anyone have recommendations or experience re: the concrete fiber siding that is on the market? Or would you stay with cedar or redwood. Cost is not as important to us as is appearance, repairability, and long-term value.