BryanDaum

And they are often painted closed like screened vents. Bryan

Thanks Mike, I appreciate your response. I called Hardie Technical today (as I was going to anyway) and recommended by Steve, and the response was polite an thorough. He said Hardie was looking for room for the flashing to be sloped for drainage of the flashing and that errors in any aspect would/could only affect warranty in that aspect, not house wide, as I expected. Bryan Lake Oswego, Oregon Inspector class of 1984

New construction house today had very nice install EXCEPT the1/4" gap had been ommitted. I find this issue very annoying. Years back a Hardie rep signed off on an issue saying it would not affect the warrranty, will they do that now? Anyone with an update on this issue? Installations before this requirement have not suffered by my observation. Anyone seen any problems resulting from when it was not done? How do Hardie reps handle this sort of thing now? The builder's superintendent was intractable -which was even more annoying as the clients are timid. Thanks, Bryan