Product Spotlight: "Square Channel" Siding from James Hardie

This Product Spotlight video is excerpted from Building Resilience, a show about extreme climate, healthy homes, and sustainability. In it, Michael Anschel of OA Design + Build + Architecture unveils a new product from James Hardie: Square Channel cladding in from the Artisan collection.

Video transcript

"Another thing that we love about James Hardie's fiber cement products is their ability to hold paint incredibly well. They also have a whole host of colors in their Dream Collection and Statement Collection that we can order as prefinished material. That means we don't have to wait until spring to finish this whole thing.

The other thing—with the Hardie trims and their concealed fastening system—we have no fasteners anywhere on our trim products. And then on our Hardie panel and our board-and-batten, we really only have these nail heads to touch up in the spring.

Artisan square channel highlights

But there's something else that's super cool that I want to show you. This is James Hardie's Artisan Square Channel fiber cement siding. It features an extra-wide board and this beautifully milled 1-inch channel, which comes together for a gorgeous shadow line.

It's installed flat on the wall instead of lapping, which means when we get to the corner, we could do a mitered corner if we chose to. It's installed both horizontally and vertically.

Hidden fasteners and precision fit

And you'll notice there's no fasteners. That's because it's a tongue-and-groove type product. So when we're installing this, we blind nail through here, and then this lock joint system allows the two pieces to come together very smoothly but very precisely.

So we get a perfect reveal, and there's no chance of it buckling because there's a small gap at the end there for any expansion and contraction that might occur.