Something you will want to keep in mind when making this decision is how long hardieplank will be on your home.
Hardie board over wood siding.
Are you talking about going over wood lap siding.
More than 50 years.
This siding is completely rot and insect resistant and can even handle salt spray from the ocean.
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This siding style was traditionally made of wood.
According to the best practices manual from james hardie existing siding can be used as a substrate as long as it is in good condition meaning that it is not warped bowed curling delaminated or rotting.
But wood siding is vulnerable to moisture damage invites insects like termites and requires more ongoing maintenance.
The best place to start is to closely examine the existing siding to get a good understanding of what condition it is actually in.
Or is your wood siding one of the 303 plywood profiles.
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This is also why the james hardie manufacturer does not recommend replacing a damaged cedar clapboard with this product.
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Most hardie board siding comes with a 50 year limited transferable warranty.
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The term wood siding is kind of generic.
At any rate their instructions specifically state.
The actual question is should the current siding be removed with osb installed or should the current siding remain to act as a substrate an additional layer beneath the top layer under the new hardieplank siding.
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Despite hardiboard being an alternative it is promoted as a replacement to wood.
Hardieplank lap siding may be installed on flat vertical wall applications only.