Here are the pics [url]http://www.hyperjoes.com/homesiding/[/url] We are just about done sanding the paint off and down our home with a Paint Shaver. Worked like a miracle. We are now fine sanding it. Now I don't know what to do with the siding after the final sand. We would like to prep the wood so that we can remove the darker spots, and if we can't, stain dark then. What kind of prep work do we do? I head use Oxegenated Bleech? What kind of stain do you recomend? What do we do with the corners of the house, they are capped with Aluminum caps? Do they make wood caps? Thanks Joe and Karrie

I'm considering putting up Hardie board siding over my cement block house (very drab, but apparently very practical in the 1950's). I thought that I'd have to attach furring strips to the house to hang the board on, but someone recently told me that Hardie Co. says that you can attach the boards directly to cement block with pneumatic nailers. Any knowledge about this? I've also been told that: 1-nails won't be secure enough to hold furring strips to cement in order to hold siding; 2-I should use construction adhesive on the strips to help anchor it to the cement block walls (I hesitate to do this since the cement block is painted. The last latex paint job was done poorly, and it is peeling extensively off the original oil-based paint over the cement block); 3- I should screw the furring strips into the block to hold them up and not rely on nails or adhesive. Sounds like a lot more work. Any feedback, direction or stories of past projects like this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Mark