Single Wall Construction and SmartSide

[Tennessee_Catfish]

Just want to frist thank the forum owner here and everyone else for the wealth of information on here. If I am asking a question already posed, I apologize, but I did not see it.

My wife and I are considering building a small house and we like the idea of framing the walls, covering with tar paper and finishing with smartside. It seems like it eliminates a step to drying in, with more time to concentrate on the rest.

Is this workable?

[rick91351]

First Off  from Rick and Ellen from Idaho.  Second are you asking about LP Smartside Panels?  Or lap siding?

[hpinson]

Welcome to this great forum!

You might check out this discussion: http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=7579.0

And Mountain Don's thread - lots of discussion there about tar paper and Hardy Siding:

http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=2335.0

[MountainDon]

Some Smartside in the 4x8 ft size sheets is approved as a structural panel. Some are not. IIRC there are three varieties of 4x8 panels. The lap siding Smartside products should be installed over sheathing panels.

[Alan Gage]

I'd just sheath it unless you had some special reason not to. That was one of the few parts of my build that was much faster and easier than I thought it would be. Then you can do whatever you want for siding without having it look like it got hit with a machine gun. Sheathing requires a lot of nails and it might not be so pretty when they all show.

Alan