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   ptp | Mar 31, 2008 11:12pm | #1

   I've seen some houses built over the past two years with "mitered" Hardiplank corners. They used metal outside corners similar to what you'd find on houses with steel or aluminum siding. I've also seen these used on larger clapboards with a reveal of six inches or more. I'm not sure if anyone is making this hardware specifically for Hardie applications or if the installers just found something meant for another type of siding that worked.

   It doesn't look horrible from the street. How's that for a ringing endorsement?

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   DanH | Apr 01, 2008 12:22am | #2

   I believe the term sometimes used for them is "tin corners" (though generally they're made from aluminum). In our part of the country you see them used occasonally with the wood siding on 100-year-old homes, as an alternative to mitered or woven corners. They have advantages over most other corner schemes in terms of durability and weather resistance.Woven corners would be a possibility with Hardi, I suppose. At least not quite as impractical as mitered.
   What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell

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   DanH | Apr 01, 2008 12:28am | #3

   http://forums.jlconline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=358045

   Somewhere in a thread here 6-12 months back is a discussion of tin corners, including some links to suppliers.

   What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell
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   dieselpig | Apr 01, 2008 12:29am | #4

   If corner boards are out of the question I think I'd try to weave the corners with Hardie before I'd try to miter them.  When you cut a miter in Hardie Plank you are left with a very brittle edge.  Tough to glue, tough to pin together, etc.

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