Covington Hardie plank home recoated with ceramic system

Hardie Siding Painting in the Gulf South | Paint + Protection.

Your Hardie siding will outlive its paint. Protect Your Home. Shield Your Family.

Fiber cement siding is one of the best exterior materials you can put on a Gulf South home. The board itself resists rot, termites, and fire. But the factory finish does not last like the board does. Gulf UV chalks the color, and the caulked joints, butt ends, and trim edges give out years before the panels do. When that happens, water gets behind siding that was supposed to be bulletproof.

The problem

The board lasts. The finish and the joints do not.

Most Hardie repaints treat fiber cement like any other wall: a fresh coat over the chalked finish, no attention to the joints. Paint over chalk bonds poorly, and unsealed joints keep letting wind driven rain behind the boards. So the repaint looks right for a season while the real failure points keep failing. Fiber cement is also a porous, cementitious material, which means it needs a finish that breathes, not a film that traps moisture in the board.

My crew preps the chalked factory finish so the coating can actually bond, reseals every joint, butt end, and trim edge with sealant built to flex, and then applies the Climate Proof Ceramic Coating: breathable, so the cementitious board vents moisture, and thick enough to hold color through Gulf UV. The system carries a 25 year transferable manufacturer's warranty against cracking, chipping, and peeling.

Hardie plank siding with resealed joints and ceramic recoat

What you actually get

Home health, family health, and equity.

One system defends the three things that matter most about your home.

Home health: woman opening her window in a protected home

Your home stays healthy

Sealed joints and a breathable coating keep water out of the wall assembly while letting the board itself vent, which is exactly what fiber cement needs in this humidity.

Your family is protected

No more chalky residue shedding off the walls, and no moisture creeping behind the siding to feed mold where you cannot see it.

Home equity protected by a transferable warranty

Your equity is protected

Hardie is a selling point. Hardie with a documented 25 year transferable warranty on its finish is a bigger one. One recoat replaces the factory repaint cycle for good.

How the diagnosis works

I don't give estimates. I give diagnoses.

Kevin Mmahat, Exterior Home Protection Consultant

When you book your free Home Protection Consultation, I come out myself. I do not give estimates. I give diagnoses. I check the chalking on the finish, run every joint and butt end for failed caulk, and look at the bottom edges and cut ends where fiber cement drinks water first. Then I tell you what your siding actually needs, in writing, before anything begins.

Real Gulf Coast homes

A job like yours.

Fiber cement done right, on a real home.

Covington Hardie Plank

Covington, LA

Problem: Caulk failure at joints and factory paint chalking after eight years.
Protocol: Joints recaulked, full ceramic recoat with 25-year color hold.
Outcome: One coating outlasts three factory repaint cycles.

Hardie Siding Questions

Your questions, answered.

The questions homeowners ask before they book.

Not directly, and that is the mistake most repaints make. The chalk has to be prepped off so the coating can bond to the board's surface. That prep is part of every job we do on fiber cement.

Yes, every joint, butt end, and trim edge, with sealant made to move with the boards. On Hardie the joints fail before the panels, so recoating without resealing protects the wrong thing.

Yes. Fiber cement is cementitious and holds moisture the way masonry does. A coating that cannot breathe traps that moisture in the board. This system vents vapor out while keeping rain and humidity from getting in.

The coating is built and warrantied for 25 years by the manufacturer, and the warranty transfers if you sell. The factory finish it replaces typically chalks out in a fraction of that.

When you see chalking on your hand after touching the siding, fading on the sunny elevations, or any joint caulk cracking or pulling away. Catching the joints early is much cheaper than fixing what water does behind them.

Gulf South fiber cement, protected

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From Hardie subdivisions in Covington and Mandeville to fiber cement remodels across Baton Rouge and the Capital Region, we make the finish last like the board.

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