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Originally Posted by 93097004xx
I’m lucky enough to own a very nice and finely built custom house constructed in 1988.
Front of the house is brick. Back of the house is first floor brick second floor rough cedar.
All the trim work on the outside of the house is cedar as well.
Contractor is trying to get me to use cement board however I just feel like it looks cheap and is not in place on a custom house..
Opinions or expertise welcome
Thanks Tony
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You got 30 years out of real wood, will you even be
alive in 30 years to see it need replacing?
Just me, but I would stick with the real thing.
For the record, I've had cement board on several of my projects with good results.
However, 10 years ago I visited a clone home McMansion subdivision (Michigan) that was only 5 years old. Many houses there had the same siding problem, western sun facing elevations were the worst with as much as 1-inch gaps between siding joints exposed.
Only theory I had was it could have been installed soaking wet and shank. This would not explain the continuous shrinking. Bad batch from Hardi more likely - it can happen (rare).
About 35 years ago in South Carolina I saw the Georgia Pacific failures with mold growing on the siding, huge failure and lawsuits.
I put up a small area of cedar shake siding 25 years ago on my south facing back porch on the second floor, and it still looked good 8 months ago as they torn the house down for an apartment complex.
Still looked good despite two screw ups on my part, no layer of building felt between each course and grabbed paint instead of tinted primer - single coat.
May have helped that both sides of wall were cold because it was an enclosed porch.
Stick with real thing.