Cutting Cement Board Siding

Typically siding shears use air pressure to power them and they shear or cut the siding like a pair of scissors.

Cutting cement board siding.

One way to eliminate cutting or at least keep it to a minimum would be to remove the entire piece above the window flash the window and then replace the siding. For a slow but virtually dustless way to cut siding use power. The cleanest way to cut fiber cement siding is by using siding shears. These are specialized to reduce the dust caused from cutting these planks.

The advantage of using the circular saw is that you can cut more than one board at a time. When cutting fiber cement siding with circular saw use a blade that has only four or six teeth. I recommend the turboshear tsf1a fiber cement pnuematic if you re looking to buy a pneumatic siding shear. To keep dust to a minimum use a circular saw that s equipped with either a dust collection bag or electric fan that.

You have to make the cuts very slowly.