To keep dust to a minimum use a circular saw that s equipped with either a dust collection bag or electric fan that blows dust into a bucket.
Cutting fiber cement siding with osselatting tool.
How to cut and install fiber cement siding.
Iboa640 1 1 1 4 carbide grit blade.
Under 29 cfr 1926 1153 c iii osha provides a specific safe harbor practice for cutting for cutting fiber cement boards using a handheld power saw with blade diameter of 8 inches or less 1.
The fein tools are great but the accessories are very costly.
Use saw equipped with commercially available dust collection system.
For tasks performed outdoors only.
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A carbide grit coating provides a long lasting cutting life with consistent performance.
I would think this would cut fiber cement.
Siding already on wall cutting into installed hardi fiber cement hi to vent an attic i need to install some gable end vents into exterior walls already sided with hardi plank or some other similar brand of plank that simulates beveled horizontal siding.
Siding shears the cleanest way to cut fiber cement siding is by using siding shears.
I have a nice small 4 makita grinder that is light and small enough to do detail work.
The snippers above will make wide radius cuts in fiber cement siding but pacific international s ss410 whippersnapper is the tool you need for amazingly tight radius work like arches radius gable.
Between 100 and 200.
Typically siding shears use air pressure to power them and they shear or cut the siding like a pair of scissors.
When cutting fiber cement siding with circular saw use a blade that has only four or six teeth.
It s accurate durable and compatible with hundreds of oscillating multi tool blade formats.
For a slow but virtually dustless way to cut siding use power shears.
Likewise i would consider using a conventional grinder for doing 95 of the cutting.
Tips for cutting hardie board cement fiberboard siding duration.
They have some cutters for grinding grout between tiles.