I am a homeowner doing a very small hardie plank installation on the side of a 2nd floor dormer. The wood there is 17 years old and always has been a splitting cracking problem due to full sun exposure. it is lap siding, i am putting on hardie 8 1/4 in wide lap planks.
The hardie spec sheet says to use siding nails or roofing nails (11 gage for the roofing) with it looks like about 1 inch penetration into the wood studs.
The spiral siding nails can be used, but they really have small heads and we are in the hurricane zone on lower east coast and seems like the biger head roofing nails would pull thru the plank less easily. .
If I use the roofing nails has anyone had problems with them backing out like I have seen on roofs?
or is that just due to the roof temperatures, or too short penetration into the wood?
Thanks.
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I wouldn't think roofers to be the right thing for the application. Your concern will shift from heads pulling through siding to shanks pulling out of framing. You want a spiral or ring for grip, the heads don't easily pull through cement siding, unless you whallop it too hard and leave a crater with the hammer or have the gun setting them too deep. If the winds are strong enough to pull the siding off when its properly installed, you're going to have bigger things to worry about, like locating where your roof went.
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I used maze nails that were double dipped galvanized came in sticks for Hardi Plank installation, I think they were 2 1/4 and fit the round head framing nailer by Porter Cable, if I remember right, I haven't done any in a while. Most people want that dam vinyl siding. I think Maze sells individual nails as well. The website is http://www.mazenails.com