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When the sun shines on any particular wall the shadow lines vary widely, my first clue that something was up. It was noticing that that got me to check the siding closer. I saw the product arrive dry. Several pallets along driveway which was covered with pieces of house wrap. House wrap would not stay on in wind and also didn't come close to reach the ground. Proceeded to get rained on endlessly for weeks. I complained many times about storing material dry. Their solution was to pile fresh boards previously under house wrap on top of the wrap to keep the house wrap from blowing off. House wrap is great at holding water in dams BTW, as piles would get lower and the blocking to keep it from blowing away got more creative, quite often I would come home to find the material being stored in mini 'swimming pools' basically. We had extensive rainy weather the entire spring. I called attention to the wet siding with the install crew many times, they ignored me. Quite often they would just leave wet pieces leaning against the house or laying out in the lawn while they waited for the next day to try and continue working. Did not measure the MC in any way though that would have been a great idea at the time, darn it. I have endless pictures documenting the entire siding removal, Hardie siding arrival, and weeks and weeks of install progress. Probably 100 or more documenting wet conditions, siding storage conditions, near and far views of siding, views showing siding breaking beads of caulk, missing caulk, unpainted ends, etcetera. Thank you for the response.

Just found this forum. Can someone tell me about issues with Hardie after it has been installed wet? I have whole sections of my home that were very recently resided with Hardie ColorPlus planks that are curling up at the ends and bowing away from the walls in the middle of pieces. It bows away from the wall enough that if you were to look up the wall, it looks like fish gills. I would never be able to wash the home off with a hose... Water would go straight behind the siding. There have been a bunch of scraps in my garage the last few months that the installers left behind. On a hunch, and after getting zero help from Hardie after they heard the word wet, I laid out some of the planks. Sure enough, they are lifting off the ground on the ends. I should also note that some of the ends have lifted strongly enough that they have broken the Quad caulk that was used to weatherproof the ends where the boards meet vertical trim. The company that installed the siding wants to face nail the worst spots to 'fix' my issue. I'm very worried of two things: 1. Hardie has already said that they will not warranty the material. 2. I'm worried that with the amount of force that's required to press the material down into submission that stress cracks will develop across the boards, making for some very unflattering siding and a home that I will never be able to sell in 5-8 years. Click to Enlarge 91.89 KB Click to Enlarge 42.84 KB Click to Enlarge 35.18 KB