Replacing Wooden Siding With Concrete Board

Be sure to nail into the existing holes on the adjacent siding.

Replacing wooden siding with concrete board.

Face nail the top piece of fiber cement siding through the old siding. A long piece of siding will sag in the middle so use temporary blocks to hold it in place while you attach it. After you remove the rotted courses use a small hacksaw to cut any protruding nail shanks or if you have a very strong grip use a good pair of wire cutters. Because fiber cement looks and cuts like wood the process of fixing buckled fiber cement boards is nearly identical to fixing warped wood boards.

Remove any nails from the top piece of good siding. Buckled fiber cement boards boards. The band board has rot luckily there is no rot in the inside of crawl space adjacent. Using existing siding for replacing siding the best place to start is to closely examine the existing siding to get a good understanding of what condition it is actually in.

Like warped wood siding fiber cement siding can buckle if it s installed without proper gaps between the boards. Watch this graphic depiction of the removal and replacement of hardboard siding. Install the new boards. According to the best practices manual from james hardie existing siding can be used as a substrate as long as it is in good condition meaning that it is not warped.

The process of replacing rotten wood siding isn t difficult. Nail straight down on the replacement board in order to hit studs. Then use a chalk line to create a reference mark for the first or bottom piece of siding and start securing the siding pieces from the bottom to the top. The steps involve cutting away the rotten siding clearing out the old nails cutting the new siding to the appropriate length and fastening the siding as well as caulking it to make the siding watertight.

Take the replacement board fit it in place image 2 and nail it in with a hammer using galvanized nails. Cut the fiber cement siding to length wear approved dust protection. Trim your replacement pieces down to size using the old siding for reference. Blind nail the fiber cement siding in place starting with the bottom piece.

There is concrete touching the siding band board. Am i right there is gap and water entering when heavy rain 2. When you replace the boards use a homemade reveal set jig to match the reveal of the existing siding. To remove and replace damaged siding.

Use a pry bar to remove the damaged siding. Fill in the nail holes.