How to install Hardie® VL Plank

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I have been able to get hands on with the Hardie® VL Plank, this is a fibre cement cladding that is pre finished in several colours, it comes with a 15 year warranty and is easy to install and maintain.
It is a great alternative to traditional wall claddings such as timber and it is completely fire proof too.

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[mikeenglish]

Silly question time. If installing cladding vertically. How do you maintain the vent strip, when the lower batten would close off the vetilation void

[rinokentie]

Many thanks! Much clearer than the official Hardie videos. Now I know how to do my project.

[conorlavery]

What a beautifully precise and well engineered this product was destined to be in your hands match made in heaven

[mattopham]

To use this stuff you have to invest in the entire "system" seems to be the trend these days. Special end grain sealer, special screws, special saw blade, special bottom trim, corner trim just not something I'd buy into unless we were asked specially for it.
Looks a tidy job but Rob "neat n tidy" Clevett could polish a turd amd it'd look good

[grantholdaway]

Great video, helps a budding self builder who will be installing a product such as this the confidence to do so and what it entails. The devil's in the detail and you cover most of it. Keep it up, am learning a lot!

[horsk]

I used the standard Hardie plank three times now on old terrace houses. It lets the brick work dry out for good so even though its not insulated a dry brick is much more thermally efficient. My only problem was ending it against the house next door neatly but i just got some black plastic trim from eurocell and ripped it down and glued it on.
But i think ill try the VL plank next time as it looks so much easier for a one man job.

[TheHairyKarl]

Great vid Rob, would be cool to see a standard hardie board installation vid too. I install it all the time but would be good to see a vid with yourself in case there’s any tips and tricks.

[petermc]

Great video as always thanks Robin.
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[lorrym]

Please can u do a video on the vertical in this system ?
There's nothing on website or utube

1. maybe a video on butt joints, trimming around windows and doors
2. If I'm double batterning up to my neighbours wall I will be 65mm+ proud..wondering how to finish such a detail?

Top bloke, great videos

Kind regards

D

[philipdavenport]

I'd definitely want to be the man who fitted the battens in the first place if I was to fit the board as well.

[buck]

Good content, if you do a lot of cladding it’s easier with experience to use a nail gun with s/s ring shank nails for the trims and boards also if you can’t help having joints on runs you need a roll of Epdm tape. 👍

[SmallWonda]

Oh, that was really interesting - & looking it up, see it's an Australian product! Goodness!! I wonder how it would compare to Colourbond (aluminium siding)? I suppose from the aesthetic, it would give a more 'natural' look - which might look better against brickwork - have to investigate costs, but interesting, thanks RObin, you are a star! My husband will be surprised.

[tullgutten]

11:42 now you have a large hole where an mouse can EASILY go in between the trim and the vent grid...
That is a big fail with this system.
A mouse needs just 5mm to go in and that looked like 10 or 15mm square

[darrenmackenzie]

Great video... I'm planning to clad using pvc exterior cladding.. but there's no video in how I'd finish off a door way??

[kelvinwilliamson]

I saw a clip of Ed with a Festool eco-skeleton this week, is it for real and will you do a short please?

[andybibby]

Can PIR insulation board be placed behind this??

[RobertClark-tpkp]

I found this very useful but not being a builder I got confused as the words "Trim" and "Profile" were used interchangeably, and the camera panning in to profile/trim in question was too brief - I had to rewatch 3 times at 50% speed with captions on. I think it would be helpful at the end of the video to have a list of all the profiles used. The demonstration frame with batons seems to have roofing membrane behind it. On a 1966 townhouse I imagine that the old decaying wooden cladding will have blockwork under it. Would one fix a membrane on this? Or could one paint the area to be clad with Thomson's Water Seal (or equivalent) ? On neighbouring townhouses on the terrace where there is replacement white plastic cladding and the cladding has been joined to meet the horizontal span, there seems to be a white plastic tape over the joint. But in the Hardie's catalogue there is a black EPDM tape, which I think from the video goes behind the joint, but no white tape to go over the the front of the joint. Should/could there be and where would one source this? Finally where a joint is necessary for several horizontally laid VL planks, should these be staggered or should they be in a straight line?

[nevans]

Is it possible to fix a utility power cable to the outside of this cladding, if so how would you recommend this? regarding fixings etc.

[Morning_Rays]

I learn so much from your channel. Super. Thank you. Two questions please. What kind of dust mask do you use? How do you fit soffit? Does it go over cladding?

[djtaylorutube]

Whoa, safety first! 5:45 you CANNOT just use a sponge from the kitchen without first donning hi-vis, hard hat, goggles and most important ASK PERMISSION OF SIGNIFICANT OTHER!