Cedar impressions siding (vinyl)
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Ralph
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What he's got going on will work just fine as long as he makes sure there will be no water intrusion.
Thinking more about this, I am concerned with the top sides of Hub's windows. Without some sort of protection, water very well could intrude. Premade J-channel will leave a nice, sealed trough for water to flow around the window and down. The homemade stuff should have some flashing or something sealed to the back side of it, that would go underneath the siding, and make said trough, so water cannot sit on top of the window and work its way into the structure.
Whatever is used here needs to be a J-shaped device that creates a sealed trough so water cannot intrude around the windows. The exact way it's done can vary.
Dennis 'd Menace
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As a firefighter, I advise you to avoid vinal siding if at all possible on the garage. Hardie plank is the best to protect your stuff.
We use Grace Vycor Sasm as a flexible flashing on all of our flange/fin mount windows. I'd highly recommend a proper soft flashing. We use a j-channel flashing header above the windows on all mesa profile metal siding. Same goes for vinyl, but we haven't used vinyl siding since I've been here. He can download proper flashing details on everything, just Google it.
Ralph
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The nice thing about this kind of work is that there's no one way set in stone to do it. As long as it accomplishes the final purpose (i.e. reliabily shedding water and durable over the long term), the underlying mechanics are not of major consequences.
Hub, if you were referring to Alside cementitious siding and trim, I don't have any experience with it. Funny you mentioned Alside... This morning I had an email from one of their account managers asking to bid on projects. Perhaps I will have them come in for some grovelling. Then I can see how theirs stand up against the others.
UPDATE:
I went to a couple stores and got some quotes, this stuff seems to be about $270/square. Probably going with Certainteed, Double 7" straight edge perfection shingle. Sterling gray matches the SITB color nicely.
They have vinyl door and window casing that is 2.5" and accepts the siding FTW.
-10 square of siding
-25 lengths of 3/4" j-channel.
-.5" R3.3 4X8 insulation (Tuff-R-F1s, 30 sheets).
-Mitered outside corners (looks like shingles on the corners, this added about $300)
-4" starter strip
-1.75" roofing nails galvanized 50 lbs.
$4,228
A lot better than the $7,800 quote I got to have it done and that was without mitered corners, he was going to add $900 for that, lulz.
I went to a couple stores and got some quotes, this stuff seems to be about $270/square. Probably going with Certainteed, Double 7" straight edge perfection shingle. Sterling gray matches the SITB color nicely.
They have vinyl door and window casing that is 2.5" and accepts the siding FTW.
-10 square of siding
-25 lengths of 3/4" j-channel.
-.5" R3.3 4X8 insulation (Tuff-R-F1s, 30 sheets).
-Mitered outside corners (looks like shingles on the corners, this added about $300)
-4" starter strip
-1.75" roofing nails galvanized 50 lbs.
$4,228
A lot better than the $7,800 quote I got to have it done and that was without mitered corners, he was going to add $900 for that, lulz.