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took one today I'm gonna look at cement
board products specifically James Hardie
trim and see if it might be what you've
been looking for party trend is pretty
tough stuff it's brought fruit insect
proof fireproof doesn't have the thumbs
of PVC and it looks just like wood my
favorite I'll show you how easy it was
to install on my house and how you can
do it too
welcome to sunny Florida and my little
neighborhood of bungalows okay so it's
not always sunny but well actually this
is pretty much whatever you afternoon in
the summer looks like these afternoon
showers are relentless around here okay
this is getting ridiculous
but with rain like this it's no wonder
my trim has just turned to mush these
trim boards by mine deck never have time
to dry out and I've already replaced
these boards once I needed a better
solution so it was time to dump the
lumber and try something new
first thing I had to do is cut and pry
that old wood trim off that was rotten
you can see my kids inside having a
grand old time as that bang away on the
door not too easy just pry it all off
and once I have it off it revealed how
rotten some of the structure was
underneath so we're gonna have to deal
with that before we even got to replace
the trim so I've got the old trim off
now I've done some repairs to the
framing because I'm just waiting I
couldn't really leave all that rot
underneath there so we did some epoxy
some boric air some different things to
make sure that the rot the framing
doesn't take place because I certainly
don't want to cover it up with nice new
hardy trim and then leave the rot back
there to keep festering so we've got to
take care of that before we finish it
out while I'm waiting for it to set up
and cure I wanted to show you a couple
of samples so Hardy sent me a they send
you three samples you can request some
so you can see they're siding in some
different textures and colors so one of
the cool things they've got is they've
got a variety of textures you can do
smooth or you can do like a cedar mill
look on some of their siding so if
you've got some wood siding that you're
trying to match that has that wood
texture on this house the trim was all
smooth so that's what I stayed with and
they do have a thing where you can get
cut there ColorPlus technology so you
can get them factory painted and really
the advantage to that I'm saying this
coming from Hardy's what what James
Hardy company says about this because I
haven't seen it long term because I
haven't used this stuff but it's I think
it's a pretty cool option to have color
plus technology where they're coated in
the factory which is always a better
coating than what you do out here in the
field there's no dirt there's no rain
there's no direct sunlight on your fresh
paint it's coated in a factory so you
know it's consistent all the way across
they give a 15 year warranty on their
color plus technology I didn't use it in
this case because I'm trying to match a
paint job that's already on the house
but if you're doing something and you
haven't picked out your trim color and
you like one of the colors they have
then why not save yourself the trouble
of having to paint save yourself the
step of having a paint so I think it's
definitely something you want to look at
if it works for your project why not
save yourself the trouble especially if
your contract
you don't have to have a painting
contractor come follow behind you take
that much longer and possibly screw up
the nice work you did on your siding and
trim so once everything was repaired I
was ready to measure the length cut that
and I'm also going to measure my width
because I want a nice quarter inch
reveal on either side of the framing
there
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I will say it was a little frustrating
that the hardy trim board only came in
12 foot lengths because my door was
about seven feet so I had a lot of waste
left over I did have to rip a couple
pieces to width to get the just right to
fit my custom trim sizes I needed but
the board's came in standard one by six
with and they also come in three quarter
inch thicknesses or four quarter inch
thicknesses which is awesome if you've
got sin - the thicker trim and you can
use them all just like standard
woodworking tools I'm using a 15 gauge
nailer to nail it in place a regular
table saw regular circ saw note and
changing the blades even though there
are special blades that you can get if
you're cutting a lot of cement board
trim that helps go through it faster and
cut down on the dust because the dust
with these is pretty significant
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and it was time to up all my joints
I really tried to that pant in
place because it seemed to follow me no
matter where I was working but I never
got him put plenty of into the
joints smooth it out with your finger
and I also like to use a wet rag
afterwards to make sure everything is
smooth I cut a couple small pieces down
here to go at the bottom where there was
some cord around this had rotted away
almost completely and it basically just
cocked them in place up against the
glass does a great job to seal this
joint here then it was time for paint
using one of my favorite exterior paints
sherwin-williams resiliance roll it on
and use a brush to get into the cracks
and crevices where you need to
and you're pretty much done overall I
was really happy with how easy it was to
work with the hardy trim how good it
looks when it's done and really
unexcited to see how much better it will
hold up against the rain and rock hey it
looks good from my house check out the
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middle okay bye bye
