Cementboard on Pandora
The house is really coming along. As you can see in the picture, we’re about half-way up the south side with the cement board siding. The first time I installed cement board (also known as Hardie Board) was in 1999 during a Jimmy Carter Work Camp just outside Manilla in the Philippines. I was amazed that I could cut the stuff with a razor knife. If you’ve never worked with it, Hardie Board looks like wood or pressed board but it’s made of recycled wood fiber and cement so it’s very weather and insect resistant. Perfect for a really rainy buggy place like Maragondon, PI. It’s been used extensively by Habitat affiliates along the gulf coast rebuilding after Katrina. Louisville Habitat Rehab Supervisor Richard McBride used the stuff during his Habitat service in NOLA; he was instrumental in getting us to use the product in Louisville.
If your wondering about the unusual color of the siding, it’s not really that color. I must have hit the wrong button on my “snapture” app when I took the picture. It’s also why my face is blue like one of the Pandora people in Avatar.
Anyway, if you’d like to see the REAL color of the siding and check out cement board in person just come by the house.
