Cement Siding Over Foam Insulation

Minimum nail length must accommodate sheathing and penetrate framing a minimum 1 inches.

Cement siding over foam insulation.

Well call me half hazard. And non nailable substrates 1 inches thick and less. Concrete cultured marble glass. Cladding attachment over thick exterior rigid insulation background current building code does provide prescriptive means to attach cladding over exterior insulation table r704 3 note v.

The building codes are all headed the way of requiring exterior rigid foam the 2012 iecc will require 1 2 foam to boost overall efficiency so i m really not too far ahead of my time with. It adds up to a robust system. Also are triple pane windows too heavy for a double wide mobile home with 2 6. Plus rigid foam insulation applied over the outside walls.

Almost any type of siding can be installed over the rigid foam cedar or redwood planks exterior plywood sheets cement fiber board or vinyl siding are common options. When applying james hardie siding directly over the combined thickness of foam sheathing continuous insulation and other non nailable substrates e g. Spray foam really is a magical tool for household insulation. Although fiberglass has been commonly use for insulation spray foam can actually outperform it plus with so many ways you can use expanding foam this material certainly is handy now only if it could help us out with all of those concrete problems.

The bid i just got is from a company that wants to put vinyl siding with foam insulation attached to the siding on over the existing siding. Of course i did this all knowing my warranty would be void. I d like to side it in fiber cement siding to match the existing house. I have a 1996 double wide mobile home that needs new siding and windows.

Siding over rigid foam. My siding is mostly in good shape. The foam on the outside keeps the wood frame. February 13 2013 exteriors insulation air sealing siding i ve become a big fan of utilizing outsulation on all my houses over the last 2 3 years.

Applying hardie siding directly through c i. Current pneumatic nailers have maximum fastener lengths. According to my calculations if i want to use rigid foam insulation on the outside of the 2 6 walls with r 21 fiberglass in the wall cavities i need at least r 11 25 in order to avoid condensation on the inside face of the sheathing.