Cut Concrete Board Siding

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Cut concrete board siding.

With the cement board flat use a ruler to guide your pencil as you mark a line where you want to cut the board. Fiber cement siding accessories. It can be cut and drilled just like wood. You draw the outline of the hole in the board by a pencil compass.

When you want to have the holes in the surface from a tub faucet or toilet flange this is the time to cut the board with the holes. It s available in a variety of sizes and shapes to match many of the old siding shingles installed over the last 60 years. Cement fiber siding is a commonly used building material. See below for a shopping list and tools subscribe to.

Make sure the line is straight and visible. Mark where you d like to cut the board. Unlike score and snap you ll need to use a surface. Unlike some of the original siding shingles that it replaces.

Like the score and snap method set a straightedge across your sheet. For a slow but virtually dustless way to cut siding use power. When cutting fiber cement siding with circular saw use a blade that has only four or six teeth. Wait for the saw blade to warm up and come to full rpm before.

Just sharing some of the different methods i ve used for cutting hardieboard siding. These are specialized to reduce the dust caused from cutting these planks. You have to make the cuts very slowly. You may need to trace over the line a few times to leave a mark that you can see well.

Use a specialized blade used with the saw such as mikita hardiblade or dewalts filber cement blade. Use your eyeware and ear protection. Draw a line with a carpenter s pencil where you want to cut the board. It is a concrete product that is light flexible and has a woodlike finish.

Lay your cement board out on a work table or between two saw horses. Weatherside fiber cement siding is the 1 and weatherside fiber cement siding is the 1 and only solution for replacing or repairing old asbestos siding shingles. James hardie 8 25 in x 144 in hz10 hardieplank cedarmill fiber cement lap siding. To keep dust to a minimum use a circular saw that s equipped with either a dust collection bag or electric fan that.

Then you get the diameter of inches in a drill and the series of a bore that near the spaced holes and the outline.