Hardiepanel® Vertical Siding Product Description
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Information Product Product General Working Working Safely Cutting and Fastening Tools for Tools Requirements Installation General Requirements Fastener General Finishing and Maintenance Weather Barrier Weather Technology. The Technology. HardieWrap ® ® Boards/Battens HardieTrim © ® and Sierra 8. HardiePanel vertical siding is and Sierra 8. HardiePanel product with ColorPlus product © HardieSoffit ® Panels Smooth Select Cedarmill ® 109 HardiePlank Lap Siding ® HardieShingle Siding ® Vertical Siding Vertical HardiePanel Vertical Siding Product Description ® ® Appendix/ Glossary 2290 Report ESR-1844 & Stucco HardiePanel vertical siding is available as a prefinished James Hardie vertical siding is available as a prefinished HardiePanel 5/16 in. thick and is available in 4x8, 4x9 and 4x10 sizes. Please see your local James Hardie dealer for texture and dealer for texture 5/16 in. thick and is available in 4x8, 4x9 and 4x10 sizes. Please see your local James Hardie size availability. Sierra 8 HardiePanel siding is factory-primed fiber-cement vertical siding available in a variety of sizes and textures. Examples vertical siding available in a variety of sizes and textures. siding is factory-primed fiber-cement HardiePanel include smooth, stucco, Cedarmill Textures shown below. of these are HardiePanel ColorPlus coating is a factory applied, oven baked finish available on a variety of James Hardie siding and trim ColorPlus coating is a factory applied, oven baked finish available on a variety of James Hardie color and accessories. See your local dealer for availability of products, products. Installation of HardiePanel® Vertical Siding General Product Product Information Safely Note: James Hardie has a capillary break requirement when installing HardiePanel on a Multi-Family/ Working Working Commercial project. Please visit: www.jameshardiepros.com for further information. GETTING STARTED Tools for Tools Fastening Cutting and 12.1 Water resistive First locate the lowest point of the barrier sheathing or sill plate, and begin. installation on that wall. General Installation Requirements 1. Measure up from the sill plate the height of the panels at either end of the wall and snap a General Fastener straight, level chalk line between Requirements the marks as a reference line. That line is for guidance in positioning the top edge of the Maintenance Finishing and panels. Check the reference line ® with a 4 ft. level. 2. Starting on one end and working HardieWrap across the wall, measure and Weather Barrier Weather trim the first panel making sure ® that the edge falls in the middle of a stud. HardieTrim Boards/Battens 3. Using the chalk line as a guide ® along the panel’s top edge, carefully position the panel and Panels HardieSoffit secure it with suitable fasteners and fastener spacing for the ® particular application as noted in the ESR-1844. Panel edges land in the middle of a stud. Lap Siding HardiePlank 4. As installation continues, check ® the vertical edge of each panel TIP: It is common practice to mark panels for cutting with a chalk line. Blue chalk is with a 4 ft. level. Check each panel Siding with a 4 ft. level recommended because it washes off. Red HardieShingle chalk is considered permanent and may ® bleed through lighter colored paints. 12.2 HardiePanel Vertical Siding Vertical TIP: For Sierra 8 TIP: Install flashing over the panels, double footing/foundation and extend studs at each the panel over the flashing panel joint Glossary Appendix/ just below the sill plate. Do allows fasten- not extend siding beyond the ers to be placed required grade clearances. outside of panel grooves. ESR-1844 & 2290 Report 110 Information Product Product General Working Working Safely VERTICAL JOINT TREATMENT ® 12.3 12.4 Treat vertical joints in HardiePanel 2 Caulked joint Cutting and 1 Moderate contact joint Fastening vertical siding by using one of the 1/8 in. gap left between for Tools Panels are butted together lightly. following four methods: panels is filled with caulk. (not applicable with ColorPlus) 1. Install the panels in moderate Requirements Installation contact. General 2. Leave an appropriate gap between panels (1/8 in. is the most common), and caulk Requirements Fastener General using a high-quality paintable caulk, that meets ASTM C-834 or C-920 requirements. (Not Note: The following outlines the recommended applications for ColorPlus and Finishing and recommended for ColorPlus) Primed panels. Not all designs will be suitable for every application: Maintenance • Exposed fasteners or battens is the recommended application for ColorPlus products Panels may be installed first with • Do not use touch-up over fastener heads for smooth ColorPlus products - primed panel caulk applied in the joints after recommended Weather Barrier Weather • For ColorPlus panel applications that require fasteners in the field, it is acceptable to HardieWrap installation; or as an option, after use touch-up over fasteners for Cedarmill and Stucco panel only, but correct touch-up the first panel is installed, apply a application is important. Some colors may show touch-up when applied over fasteners. Trim is recommended to cover joints when appropriate. bead of caulk along the panel edge. ® 12.5 12.6 When the next panel is installed 3 Battened joint 4 H-Channel joint Boards/Battens HardieTrim against the first, the edge embeds HardieTrim® batten board covers A manufactured H-channel captures the joint between panels. in the applied caulk creating a the vertical edges of the panels. thorough seal between the edges ® of the panels. HardieSoffit Panels ! WARNING ® HardiePlank The caulk joint method is Lap Siding not recommended for the ColorPlus® products ® 3. Vertical joints may be covered HARDIEPANEL SIDING FASTENER SPECIFICATIONS HardieShingle with wood or fiber-cement The Fastener Specifications table shows fastener options for a variety of different nailing substrates. Please Siding refer to the applicable ESR report online (see back page) to determine which fastener meets your wind load batten strips. If James Hardie® Fastening Approved Fastener Fastening Types siding or trim products are Substrate ® 1 6d4d Vertical Siding Vertical ripped and used as batten 16 in o.c. 1 2 5 9 .113 in. x .267 in x 1.5 in common HardiePanel strips, paint or prime the cut 2 6d edges. Batten strips should wood .113 in. x .267 in x 2 in. common studs ® span the vertical joint by at least 5 ring shank siding nail .091 in. x .225 in x 1.5 in Appendix/ ¾ in. on each side. 24 in o.c. 1 2 9 Glossary 4. Metal or PVC “H” moldings can 9 roofing nail No. 11ga 1.25 in long be used to join two sections of 2290 Report HardiePanel siding. 7 screw ESR-1844 & steel 16 in o.c or 7 13 TIP: Stainless steel fasteners are Ribbed Bugle-Head No. 8 (.323 in. x 1 in.) studs 24 in o.c. screw recommended when installing 13 ET&F James Hardie products. [AKN100-0150NA] 111 .100 in x .25 in x 1.5 in Installation of HardiePanel® Vertical Siding (cont.) General Product Product Information Safely Working Working HORIZONTAL JOINT TREATMENT 12.7 1 Simple horizontal joint In some applications such as Water-resistive barrier Upper panel multi-story structures or at gable Water-resistive Tools for Tools barrier Fastening ends, it may be necessary to stack Cutting and HardiePanel® siding. The horizontal joints created between panels must Upper panel be flashed properly to minimize General 6mm (¼ in) Installation Requirements water penetration. Treat horizontal Gap panel joints by using one of the Flashing following methods: General Fastener 1. After installing the lower course Requirements Lower panel of panel siding, install vinyl or Don’t caulk gap coated aluminum “Z” flashing at between flashing and upper panel. the top edge of the panel. Make Lower panel Maintenance Finishing and sure that the flashing is sloped away from the wall and does not ® 12.8 2 Band-board joint rest flat on the top edge of the Water-resistive barrier Upper panel panel. Install the second level Water-resistive HardieWrap barrier Weather Barrier Weather or gable panels leaving a 1/4 Upper panel Don’t caulk ® in. minimum gap between the gap between bottom of the panel and the Z flashing and upper panel. flashing. This gap should never 6mm (¼ in) HardieTrim Gap Boards/Battens be caulked. Flashing ® 2. As an alternative, if a horizontal Lower panel Panels band board is used at the Decorative HardieSoffit horizontal joint, flashing must band board ® extend over the panel edge and trim attachment. Flashing for Decorative Lap Siding both treatments must slip behind HardiePlank band board the water-resistive barrier. ® TIP: For best looking installation of HardiePanel Select Sierra 8 siding, carefully align vertical Siding panel grooves at 1st to 2nd story or gable junctures. HardieShingle ® ! WARNING Do not bridge floors with panel siding. A horizontal joint shall always be created between floors. HardiePanel Vertical Siding Vertical TIP: For the most symmetrical looking wall, plan the installation so that a full panel is centered on the wall or gable with equal-size Glossary Appendix/ panels cut for each end. As an alternative, plan the installation so that a full panel is located on either side of the wall center, again leaving equal-size panels on each end. These strategies might entail a center- ed framing layout. Choose the strategy that looks the best and uses material most efficiently. ESR-1844 & 2290 Report 112 Information Product Product General Working Working Safely WINDOWS, DOORS, AND OTHER WALL PENETRATIONS 12.9 Cutting and 1 install ¼ in thick shim 2 install flashing over the Fastening In panel installations, trim is for Tools over the window. shim and under the water- typically overlaid on top of the resistive barrier. panel. Special attention needs to be paid to trim flashing at the Requirements Installation tops of openings. Below is one General method for properly flashing trim in a panel application: Requirements Fastener 1.