If you pour water on the back side of each product it will absorb into the hardie while staying beaded up on the smartside.
Lp smartside prefinished siding reviews.
While some users have found lp durable many tend to disagree.
What we don t like durability.
Their intent was to sell me the lp smart siding and trim.
1 was from lp.
The wood strands are then fed through a mixing mechanism whereby all surfaces of the wood chips are coated with a mixture of waxes resins and zinc.
It took seeing moisture tests and demonstrations for me to become a believer.
Lp uses its own smartguard process to add a layer of protection to their engineered wood products.
Installing lp smartside siding is pretty easy and it requires nothing more than the usual woodworking tools.
Lp smartside is a great product that i have yet to find a single failure on but i find installation errors on nearly every home i inspect.
Homeowners with no prior installation knowledge can easily master the art.
When i first saw lp smartside i was pretty skeptical of an osb siding product based on the history.
Lp smartside is made out of what lp calls an engineered wood product the first step in the process involves placing raw lumber through a wood chipper to create wood strands chips that are somewhat uniform in shape size.