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   dovetail97128 | Aug 31, 2008 06:27pm | #1

   Not necessary.

   That is a style issue not a requirement.

   They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
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   Piffin | Aug 31, 2008 06:53pm | #2

   usually a matter of taste and style.

   Do you like miniskirts or hoop dresses?

   Cowboy boots or clogs?

    

    

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   Cangowrongwillgowrong | Aug 31, 2008 07:02pm | #3

   thanks guys,

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   NickNukeEm | Aug 31, 2008 07:45pm | #4

   Just be careful the FC doesn't start too close to grade.  Handi recommends their siding start no closer than 6 inches to finished grade.  I assume that's to minimize backsplash.

   Handi install link:  http://www.jameshardie.com/pdf/install/install_plank_north.pdf

   Edit, added link

   "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."  Invictus, by Henley.

   
   

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   Edited 8/31/2008 12:46 pm ET by NickNukeEm

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   Pelipeth | Sep 01, 2008 02:47pm | #5

   Like the guy said it's a style thing. With fiber cement you don't have to worry about the first coarse of material wicking up moisture (from snow etc) if your siding has to be close to the ground or an intersection of (roof). In my home alot of the board and batten siding is just off the surface below and recently I've had to cut out rot and retro fit with an AZEK skirt board.

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   Matt | Sep 01, 2008 03:16pm | #6

   Glad to know someone besides myself calls the bottom piece a skirt board.

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   Pelipeth | Sep 02, 2008 02:09am | #7

   I'm a big fan of correct terminology and I find, at times, some things can have more than 1 correct name . Looking up they are rafters, standing on them they are joists. Always learning.

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   Matt | Sep 02, 2008 04:04am | #8

   Speaking of terminology, I'm not sure I followed you on the >> Looking up they are rafters, standing on them they are joists << 

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   Heck | Sep 02, 2008 04:12am | #9

   What he is saying is, if he just fell into the basement through the floor joists and is now looking up at them, they are now rafters.

     

          

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   Matt | Sep 02, 2008 06:15am | #10

   Not what I call rafters - but that's just me...

3. 
   Heck | Sep 02, 2008 07:05am | #13

   I was just joking around. He was saying something I have heard before, tho, about joists are things you can stand on while looking up at rafters.

   Something you might say to someone who had no knowledge whatsoever about the names of the parts of a building. 

          

4. 
   Framer | Sep 02, 2008 06:18am | #11

   What he is saying is, if he just fell into the basement through the floor joists and is now looking up at them, they are now rafters.

   You're joking, right?

    Joe Carola

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   Heck | Sep 02, 2008 07:02am | #12

   Small joke.

   Very small, apparently.