Leon said:

"Michael Baglio" wrote in message
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Yep.

Upside:
Comes already primed, and providing it's painted within 30 days, the
warrantee on Hardi-Plank is 50 years.

IIRC you should paint within 6 moonths.

I hope so, 'cause it's been 3 months for my siding...
I can't get SWMBO to decide what color she wants... :-\

It's what I did my shop-ette
in. Looks good, weighs a ton and-- given that it's cement board--
should hold up pretty darned well. (Hell, 50 years is a longer
warrantee than _I_ have right now so all's good.) ;

Downside:
It's cement. Be prepared to destroy a couple of circular saw blades.
Cutting it creates cement dust. Be prepared to breathe a lot of
cement dust.

While you can cut it with a carbide blade I found that the diamond coated
blades with no teeth work very very well compared to carbide blade with
teeth. When I first sided my house with Hardi I used the common carbide
circle saw blade. When doing repairs on other houses and when doing my shed
I used the cheap, $15 diamond coated blade from HD. This blade works like a
dream, stirs up less dust, and makes a cleaner, smoother cut. You have to
look for this blade as the sales people point to the $50 blade. So the $15
blade only lasts 75% as long as the $50 blade. It has already outlasted the
carbide blades and in this instance, the cheaper blade is cheaper in the
long run.

I'll second that emotion - I'm using a Dewalt diamond siding blade,
and it has thousands of cuts on it - no sign of wear yet. FAR better
than any wood cutting blade, carbide or not. Heck, the time saved
changing out blades is worth what it costs - $45 as I recall. I
couldn't find the Hardy recommended Hitachi blade locally.

FWIW,

Greg G.