Best Nails For Cement Siding

Pick out stainless steel or hot dipped galvanized nails size 6d 1 1 2 inch long siding nails and 2 inch long siding nails in the quantity you need for your project.

Best nails for cement siding.

These nails can be used to attach hardboard siding. Leave a small gap at butt joints and fill with caulk. 7d galvanized siding nails the grip rite 2 1 4 in. Driving nails at 15 with sizes of 1 2 1 2 the pcn65 is a very powerful model.

Fiber cement siding stormed onto the scene a few decades ago and revolutionized the house siding industry because it possesses the best of many worlds. Drive the nail heads flush to the siding not below the surface. Maze nails now has stainless steel fiber cement siding nails in coils to fit 14 popular coil nailers. If hand nailing fiber cement siding use hot dipped galvanized nails and drive the nails into the wall studs.

7d galvanized siding nails 1 lb pack have a spiral shank designed to help drive the nails into hard woods. Hardie siding is harder fiber cement siding. Into the solid wood wood sheathings like osb and plywood count toward the 1 1 4 in but soft sheathings like. Ring shank provides additional holding power.

Find fiber cement siding nails at lowe s today. Nails for blind nailing should be between 1 in. Long lasting fiber cement siding deserves great nails. The grip rite 2 1 4 in.

From ends of boards. The freeman pcn65 is the last of our siding nail gun reviews and comes in at 4 on our list. If the hardiplank is being installed on a building in a humid climate or near the ocean or any large body of water the stainless steel nails are the first choice. For best aesthetics nail heads should be touched up to color match.

Fasteners are hidden by the course above blind nailing nails are driven through the sheathing into the studs. Use 6d or 8d galvanized or stainless siding nails and install a single nail about 1 in. 1 blind nailing measurements keep nails 3 8 in. It offers the look of authentic wood shiplap siding even with lookalike textured wood grain.

An ideal pneumatic nail gun should be of 70 to 120 psi air pressure capability for hardie siding projects. Customers can have the excellent long term rust protection of maze stainless steel nails and the speed and convenience of pneumatic application. More product details close. If using a pneumatic nailer choose ring shank.

N nail lengths should be chosen so they penetrate a minimum of 1 1 4 in. Be sure the flashing overlaps the siding course below. From the top of the board. Down from the top edge at each stud no more than 16 in.