I resided this house 17 or 18 years ago. It is a two story building 32 by 36 feet. I used what is called Canex, it is really a pressed paper with a hard surface formed to look like aged painted wood. The boards are 12 feet long and 8 inches wide, quite heavy. I used a similar product, a little different design for vertical siding on the gable ends and aluminum soffit and fascia.
The trick is to measure each corner from the under side of where the soffet will go down and dividing that evenly by the virtual width of the boards to locate the height of the bottom mounting member what ever that is and depending on the system. Then you need to get the bottom member that the siding hangs on straight from one corner to the other. Once that is done it is just a matter of laying each course and nailing it into place until you hit a door or a window. The next trick is to cut out when you hit the bottom or top of window openings or the top of door openings or other penetrations like vents. Various siding systems use different trim materials. Many use 'J' mold around window and door frames which you apply before you start the siding. Some use corner caps which are also applied first. Some corner caps are under-cut to hide the ends of the siding, others are designed to but up tight. Most applications you will apply a drip cap over windows and doors but you probably don't have to remove that. Frankly though, if the insurance is willing to pay a contractor that is the way I would go. They will come in with scaffolding, tarps to cover plantings and a skip to collect the debris and they will be in and out of there in a couple of days. You will be renting all that stuff for a long time without a crew and even paying demurrage on the skip or dumpster will cost you a lot more because it will take you days to strip shingles, collect them up and load them into the skip. A crew will strip the building in a couple of days and have it all picked up. They will have their own arrangements to get scaffolding to and from the site and so on and the contractor is protected by insurance and Worker's compensation, you are not. I did it because I was paying for it and I had the time but not the money. This isn't your situation. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Baldwin To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:24 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Siding Hi, Has anyone on here sided their house? Baseball sized hail caused the insurance company to total my siding and roof, and I can't believe what these dorks want to charge to do the work. And my insurance agent don't care if I do it, as long as it is done. I want to use the Fiber Cement siding. I have done some roofing before, and helped on large house reroofs, but not done one this big myself, but roofing isn't that hard, just don't' fall off the roof, LOL. Puts my other remodel on the back burner though until this stuff is done. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.0/1507 - Release Date: 6/18/2008 7:09 AM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
