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   brownbagg | Oct 02, 2005 05:35am | #1

   I forgot pictures.

   
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   brownbagg | Oct 02, 2005 05:41am | #2

   six and 1/2 hours without moving, see the blue line.

   
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   Matt | Oct 02, 2005 05:55am | #3

   I guess you are using hardi-backer...

   BTW - that is never gonna work right.  You used the wrong color of caulk... ;-)

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   maddog3 | Oct 02, 2005 06:02am | #4

   .....yeah.......................I see it ,is that it .......under the clock ?"

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   Gunner | Oct 02, 2005 06:05am | #5

   What kind of truck is that?

    

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   brownbagg | Oct 02, 2005 06:12am | #6

   the blue line is above the clockthat is the body to this truck. I had to do some welding on the frame.

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   Gunner | Oct 02, 2005 06:18am | #7

   Cool. Alabamas answer to  Jesse James.

   So what's the pupose of the experiment? To show that the water won't soak through?

    

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   brownbagg | Oct 02, 2005 06:29am | #8

   just something I need to know.My great grandfather had a mule killed by the real jesse james in ne arkansas. that was a mean man

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   Gunner | Oct 02, 2005 06:39am | #9

   Mule was probably snoring or something hideous. There's a place not to far away from here that used to be a hotel now it's a house. He'd hide out there. Legend has it that there was a tunnel to another house.There he fathered a child by a local girl. Or something like that, I just wanted to fix the electric and get out when the old lady was babbling on about it.

    

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   JeffBuck | Oct 02, 2005 09:23am | #10

   is the top (uuh ... bottom) open?

    

   waters gonna evaporate and ruin your test results.

   Jeff    Buck Construction

    Artistry In Carpentry

        Pittsburgh Pa

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   brownbagg | Oct 02, 2005 03:43pm | #11

   yes you right, just mainly seening if it will seep througth to the bottom side

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   maddog3 | Oct 02, 2005 05:06pm | #13

   ...so what happens if it does leak??
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   brownbagg | Oct 02, 2005 05:44pm | #14

   18.5 hours.somebody said hardi board wasnt waterproof. I have been using my shower without tile yet. I just like to know.

   
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   maddog3 | Oct 02, 2005 06:06pm | #15

   I had to do the same thing in my bathroom, but I hung some plastic over the Hardi ,....... because I already had enough headaches in there..
   what about the joints? won't water seep into the cracks?"

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   davidmeiland | Oct 02, 2005 06:16pm | #16

   Try cutting some pieces of equal size, weighing them, then soaking half of them in water and weighing them later. Apparently Hardi siding will absorb 1/3 of its weight in water, which means it is holding quite a bit of water against your building.

   Besides, it's not necessarily straight thru the board that the leaks occur, it's at the joints. Once you have water leaking in around a window, Hardi board will absorb quite a bit of it and keep it there.

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   brownbagg | Oct 02, 2005 08:05pm | #17

   its been over twenty hours and it starting to seep through. This is with a head of water sitting on top. I think it could handle a shower with no problem.

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   Gunner | Oct 02, 2005 08:47pm | #18

   This is getting like that gun cam Jeff Buck posted a link too awhile back.

    

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   Kowboy | Oct 03, 2005 10:17pm | #19

   May I suggest another experiment?

   Cut an orange/lime/grapefriut in half and set it on a piece of granite countertop.

   Result?  It soaks through!

   Set it on a piece of solid surface or engineered stone, nothing.

   I haven't tried this with chicken yet.

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   custombuilt | Oct 04, 2005 12:50am | #20

   Good stuff---  I bet wonderboard would last about 10 seconds

    

    

    When in doubt, get a bigger hammer!

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   ss3964spd | Oct 04, 2005 07:26pm | #21

   How are you going to get the chicken to hold still?

   Dan

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   dustinf | Oct 02, 2005 04:05pm | #12

   A friend did a test of hardi backer when it was first available.  He cut about 15 pieces 3"x3", and dumped them all into a bucket of water.  The first week he cut 3 pieces in half to see if they had soaked through.  He repeated the process for a month, and none of the pieces had soaked through.  He left a couple pieces in the bucket for a few months, but the water started to stink, so he ended the experiement.