DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY FOR SIDING
We used house smart home renovations to install hardie board on our house, biggest mistake we could of made! Absolutely no professionalism or pride in their work, from what we saw they have never installed siding before as it was atrocious! From the first day they started we brought up issues we saw and we were met with excuse after excuse and the fact they weren’t done yet etc... Nothing was done to James hardie recommended practices or to any building code, our house was left in worse condition than when they started! They had multiple opportunities to fix the defects but every time they touched our house they made it worse and worse. Material was broken and left installed, caulking was used EVERYWHERE to try and hide their mistakes, 90% of the nails were showing or pulled almost all the way though the material which they then filled with caulking.
Boards were installed over nails from original siding, straight over cable and even backwards!!
Instead of staggering the siding at the side of the house due to our slope they just dug the siding into the dirt. I could go on and on, just don’t use house smarts home renovations if you want a professional, rainscreened install that looks good.