James Hardie Siding

I have been thinking about siding for a long time now. I would rather not do vinyl, and am pretty sure I am going one step up, to fiber cement board siding. The most popular of which is the James Hardie brand. I dont want to pay $6000 to paint it, so I am going to go with the pre-painted stuff. It is 16% more expensive than the primed stuff ($7.10 vs $6.10 per 6 1/4" x 12' board), well worth it. I think a good quality vinyl siding would work out to about $4.50 for that same size.

But the trim will cost much more for Hardie than vinyl, depending what you get, probably triple the vinyl trim cost.

I am also trying to come up with decent links to Hardie fiber cement jobs. Here is what I found so far:

http://picasaweb.google.com/SicamousDevelopments/RavensCroftSalmonArm#

http://picasaweb.google.com/chander.ganesan/NewHouseJan52008#

http://picasaweb.google.com/sgulick1/OurNewHouse5Interior#

http://picasaweb.google.com/ncc77777/OtterSlideLoop2#

http://picasaweb.google.com/chitojared/FishFoodBank#

http://picasaweb.google.com/chughesconstruction/EscapeBeachside10#

http://picasaweb.google.com/gulfcoastsiding/HardieBoard#

Hopefuly your house won't look like this one:
http://picasaweb.google.com/JollyRoberts/SigmanWindowsSidingAtlantaGA#

The Framers are here...

Today the steel beam for the basement ceiling was delivered by Brewster Iron Works, as well as the 1st lumber delivery for the first floor deck. Bruce arranged for the lumber delivery boom truck, so that the steel beam could be lifted into place.

Garage Walls poured

Poured this morning, before the rain. Glad to get something else finished.

The southeast wall of the garage was poured the full 9'4". So the top of that wall will be about 6 feet above the garage floor height. This is so I can backfill that wall, to help me with the severe elevation difference on the eastern property line. The other 3 walls will be just a few inches higher than the garage floor height.