Cut Cement Board Siding

Like the score and snap method set a straightedge across your sheet.

Cut cement board siding.

This old house general contractor tom silva shares his secrets for working with fiber cement siding. Use a specialized blade used with the saw such as mikita hardiblade or dewalts filber cement blade. See below for a shopping list and tools subscribe to. Use your eyeware and ear protection.

Mark where you d like to cut the board. Unlike score and snap you ll need to use a surface. Lay your cement board out on a work table or between two saw horses. Make sure the line is straight and visible.

Remember this mark represents the top of the siding piece not the bottom of the second course. The cleanest way to cut fiber cement siding is by using siding shears. For a slow but virtually dustless way to cut siding use power. Just sharing some of the different methods i ve used for cutting hardieboard siding.

You have to make the cuts very slowly. For the contractor who measures siding jobs by the square mile not the square foot i think the. You can use diamond cutting blades attached to your circular saw or sliding miter saw. Cutting fiber cement siding stationary shears.

Cutting fiber cement siding siding shears. Draw a line with a carpenter s pencil where you want to cut the board. Typically siding shears use air. Cut a straight 1 2 so its length runs from the frieze board to the bottom of the first siding course.

When cutting fiber cement siding with circular saw use a blade that has only four or six teeth. These are specialized to reduce the dust caused from cutting these planks. You may need to trace over the line a few times to leave a mark that you can see well. Measure up from the bottom of the story pole to mark the full width of the first course of siding.

Wait for the saw blade to warm up and come to full rpm before. Makita and hitachi.