which is a better product - hardi color plus or hardi primed?
jamaraz
12 years ago
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Which beadboards are good for exterior use? Hardi not available!
Comments (11)Acountry- I would love to see a pic if you have one. Knowing that yours is doing well against your Oregon weather makes me feel so much better. I hadn't even thought about the seams. It is a great thing that you mentioned them. Ours will be painted as well. I had to pick out the color at the same time this issue came up. I did samples this morning and selected a great blue called, Atmospheric. It is from Wodka's recommendation from the home decor forum and is absolutely *perfect*. Sorry to ramble, I am just so excited! I had warning bells go off when I saw the "beadboard" at Home Depot -reminded me of cardboard or that junk they use to make cheapie dorm furniture. Wood would make me feel so much better! Our porch is like an inch shy of 8 feet deep (400 square feet total) so I will check into the lengths available. A 16 foot board would be ideal since I hate paying for waste and the environmental impact of it. It was made 8' just to minimize waste (it could of been 6', but I wanted to put a breakfast table on it). Has anyone used a product that is wood and in sheets? An 8 foot sheet would be ideal as well. Hardi REALLY needs to make a beadboard line. : ) SO many decisions! I am glad that this is wonderfully fun and that I have you y'all to turn to....See Morehelp! need to pick window color fast (eagle windows/hardie sidng)
Comments (9)Before the GardenWeb gets around to pulling my plug I thought I would point out that one of the greatest, if not the only, benefit of using an Eagle Window is the fact that they will put a different color sash in their aluminum clad window frames as I referenced in my earlier post that was thought to be rude. A black sash can sometimes be an excellent choice in a gray or off-white frame because it gives the windows a more dramatic, deeper, and larger appearance. It was commonly used in older houses and has worked well for me in several historic restorations. But without seeing the rest of the trim colors and materials and the general setting of the house, it would be inappropriate to recommend anything that specific. Making the entire window sash and frame black can be too strong IMHO since subtlety is an important issue in any huse although it can work when the windows are inset in brick openings with no trim. Whatever is decided it should be accurately drawn to scale in color or mocked up. Making the windows all white seems a waste of a design opportunity unless the style of the house demands it (Georgian, etc). But if you like the Craftsman Style you really shouldn't be thinking about white windows or even clapboard siding for that matter. Pick a theme and try to reinforce it with the appropriate materials. There is a reason the Craftsman houses used shingles and earth colors; it was part of a cultural movement protesting the industrial revolution, not just a fashion or a "style". mdev, you apparently thought I was speaking to you about your window color comments but you should not have. I try to only speak to the OP in a thread and often don't read the other posts very thoroughly since I'm working in my office and often don't even see a recent post because it can take me an hour or two to post if a client calls or if I go to lunch. I can't do this full time. If I had something to say to you, I would normally have used your name. Others appear to have understood that and I only just figured out what you had assumed. I believe that responding to other posters comments rarely helps the OP and it often hijacks the thread which is truly a rude thing to do. The original post should always take precedence or AH would just become another chat room like the garden and kitchen forums. People come to BAH for real answers. The late Ben Thompson often told us to never design in a vacuum. It actually took me some time to understand what he meant: never focus on one design element to the exclusion of the others. The first thing you consider when selecting anything is how it will reinforce the central idea or design motif (called a "parti" in design school and you had to have one you could defend or your presentation was over). Only then should you consider the other aspects of the design. (You can learn a bit of this from the "What Not To Wear" TV show.) Focusing on the big ideas first instead of your old favorite ideas actually makes designing easier as well as more powerful. Toward the end things just seem to fall into place. The choice of a window color should fit into the larger "parti" and if you haven't defined that yet or can't describe it to others you can't move forward and get effective help from others. In other words, your're stuck. Know that feeling? It took me 4 years as an engineering and art student in college, 3 1/2 years in graduate school (interrupted by the war) and 10 years in an office to figure how a design process worked. I offer it to you in a 10 minute tutorial for free. Whether you understand it or not, you can't say I didn't try. The photo below is of a Cambridge, MA house restoration finished last year. On a lark I applied to do a another Cambridge house advertised on Craigslist with just my resume and this photo and beat out 250 other architectural proposals from all over New England. What many years of experience teaches you is proportion and balance. I don't know how to teach that in 10 minutes but learning to design a Palladian window would an excellent place to start....See Moreshould Hardi Plank be primed on the back side before install?
Comments (5)"We find the installation instruction rather odd that they advise NOT to caulk between boards. Won't water get in there and ruin it?" Siding is not the final drainage plane on the exterior of a house. The tar paper or house wrap is intended to stop water movement (while still allowing vapor movement). Exterior walls need to resists water entry, while allowing for vapor to not become trapped in the structure since some will move from the living space into the walls....See MorePlease HELP with Hardie siding color selection
Comments (5)We have been very pleased with the Hardiboard. No maintenance at all so far and we have had it for about 10 years (? I think). One irritating thing was that a squirrel gnawed on the edge of a couple boards, but not a big deal as it is not really noticeable. We did need to redo our trim at that point. Wish we had gone ahead anyway because I doubt DH will ever bother with it now. Sigh. Oh, and I am beginning to think we may not have the taupe-ours isn't actually as dark as your first picture now that I look at it. I can't remember where I stuck my home improvements binder or I would check. I will look for it. GW isn't letting me share my photos from my iPad these days or I would post one for you. Very irritating. I will see if there are any photos on the Macbook....See Morekfhl
12 years agoSpringtimeHomes
12 years agoI agree with lzerarc. You can expect the body of paint to last longer on the color plus but the overall paint job is much better with site painted. Ive used both and the main problem with the color plus is the caulk joints, even using their very expensive trim.
The caulk is unpainted and attracts dirt and dust more than paint which is definitely noticeable. Check out the picture of our hardie plus home below and you can notice the darker caulk joints in the Heathered Moss(green)The trim is Khaki brown I think. Great house and color but you can definitely see the caulk joints in person.
We are moving away from Fiber Cement on spec homes to LP Smartside. Great product worth checking out.
Here is a link that might be useful:
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