New Construction in Whittier, Clad in Fiber Cement Siding
Fiber cement lap siding over a ventilated gap for a new Whittier house: it holds paint under hard sun, drains after storms and gives termites nothing to eat.
Fiber cement lap siding is the cladding we put forward for the walls of a new Whittier house. The boards are pressed from cement and wood fiber and come primed from the factory. They hold paint through long stretches of hard sun, stay flat in dry wind, give termites and rot nothing to feed on and will not burn. Hung over a slim ventilated gap, they let the wall behind drain and dry after a hard storm.
Hanging the boards
Over the sheathing goes a weather resistive barrier, lapped shingle style, then vertical furring strips or a drainage mat that holds the siding off the wall. Insect screen closes the top and bottom of that gap while leaving it open to air. Each board is nailed through the furring into the studs at the spacing the maker lists, with its lap hiding the nails of the course below. Butt joints land on a stud or get a flashing tab behind them, and every cut end is primed before it goes up.
Openings, corners and paint
Windows and doors get a pan flashing below and a head flashing above, lapped into the barrier so water leaving the gap finds its way out. Trim at corners and openings is fiber cement too, so the whole skin ages at one rate. The bottom course stops a set distance above the ground and above any roof it meets, which keeps the board ends dry. A quality acrylic finish goes on last, and the inspector looks at the barrier and flashings before the siding covers them.
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New Construction in Whittier: questions
Tell us the look you have in mind for the outside, from wide boards to a narrow lap, and send the survey, the zoning rules for height and setbacks and any soils study. The siding style affects trim depth at windows, so it is settled along with the wall assemblies.
Pricing follows the sequence crews work in: site work, foundation, frame and roof, the rough trades, then the skin and interiors. Siding is split into barrier and furring, boards and trim, and paint, each on its own line. Consultant and permit costs open the estimate as a separate group.
We keep one current set of drawings. When the surveyor revises the site plan or the engineer changes a sheet, the new page gets a date and goes to every consultant and to the crew, and the old page comes off the job. Nobody frames, pours or hangs siding from a superseded drawing.
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