Cut Cement Board Siding

This old house general contractor tom silva shares his secrets for working with fiber cement siding.

Cut cement board siding.

Like the score and snap method set a straightedge across your sheet. Makita and hitachi. The cleanest way to cut fiber cement siding is by using siding shears. Cutting fiber cement siding siding shears.

Use a specialized blade used with the saw such as mikita hardiblade or dewalts filber cement blade. Wait for the saw blade to warm up and come to full rpm before. For the contractor who measures siding jobs by the square mile not the square foot i think the. Make sure the line is straight and visible.

Cut a straight 1 2 so its length runs from the frieze board to the bottom of the first siding course. See below for a shopping list and tools subscribe to. You may need to trace over the line a few times to leave a mark that you can see well. Unlike score and snap you ll need to use a surface.

Measure up from the bottom of the story pole to mark the full width of the first course of siding. Typically siding shears use air. When cutting fiber cement siding with circular saw use a blade that has only four or six teeth. Remember this mark represents the top of the siding piece not the bottom of the second course.

Just sharing some of the different methods i ve used for cutting hardieboard siding. For a slow but virtually dustless way to cut siding use power. These are specialized to reduce the dust caused from cutting these planks. With the cement board flat use a ruler to guide your pencil as you mark a line where you want to cut the board.

Mark where you d like to cut the board. Lay your cement board out on a work table or between two saw horses. You have to make the cuts very slowly. You can use diamond cutting blades attached to your circular saw or sliding miter saw.

This is probably the most popular method for cutting fiber cement siding. To keep dust to a minimum use a circular saw that s equipped with either a dust collection bag or electric fan that.