How To Cut Cement Board Siding

Lay your cement board out on a work table or between two saw horses.

How to cut cement board siding.

The cleanest way to cut fiber cement siding is by using siding shears. Draw a line with a carpenter s pencil where you want to cut the board. Use the score and the snap tools. Typically siding shears use air.

Wait for the saw blade to warm up and come to full rpm before. Cutting fiber cement siding siding shears. For a slow but virtually dustless way to cut siding use power. The easiest method to cut the hardie board is that you spot the surface and break the sheet along the marked line.

You may need to trace over the line a few times to leave a mark that you can see well. Mark where you d like to cut the board. With the cement board flat use a ruler to guide your pencil as you mark a line where you want to cut the board. You can use diamond cutting blades attached to your circular saw or sliding miter saw.

To keep dust to a minimum use a circular saw that s equipped with either a dust collection bag or electric fan that. In fact you could use a utility knife or a carbide tipped scoring equipment in order to spot the line. Make sure the line is straight and visible. Unlike score and snap you ll need to use a surface.