Boise Cascade™ hardboard siding failures & claims:

Boise Cascade™ hardboard siding is similar to products sold by Masonite Corp., Abatibi-Price, and Georgia Pacific Corp, both of which experience failures of delamination, swelling, softening, and general deterioration when exposed to water and weather.

Common Causes of Boise Cascade™ and other Hardboard Building Siding Failures

Our own field observations show that the siding material deteriorates fastest and most severely where:

• The Boise Cascade™ hardboard siding (and similar products) has not been kept perfectly sealed and coated against water intrusion
• The Boise Cascade™ hardboard siding has been damaged by cuts, nicks, or by counter-sunk siding nails that penetrated its top skin and were not kept perfectly sealed
• The Boise Cascade™ hardboard siding has been exposed to high amounts of rain (weather side of buildings), or where it is exposed to roof spillage splash-up against siding, for example where building gutters and leaders are not installed or are not properly maintained
• The end butt-joints of the Boise Cascade™ siding were not kept sealed where exposed to weather
• Water penetrates the Boise Cascade™ siding and building wall at poorly-flashed or poorly-installed windows, doors, or other wall penetrations

We have photographs and material samples on-hand and solicit field reports and photographs to add to siding identification, maintenance, repair, replacement, and class action information at this website.

If you have additional product failure examples you are welcome to CONTACT the author.

Or select a topic from closely-related articles below, or see our complete INDEX to RELATED ARTICLES. to provide additional field photos or information that may assist others in identifying and repairing siding failures

Boise-Cascade Siding Claims or Class Action Status

• No class action is pending at a U.S. national level. State level class actions may be underway.
• Contact Boise-Cascade with warranty questions: 1-208-384-6161 Website: http://www.bc.com

Common Causes of Boise Cascade siding defect

Are the defects with Boise Cascade siding is the Boise Cascade now known as BMC of Boise, Idaho.

Yes.

Back in 1987 BMC West formed with acquisition of 20 building materials centers from Boise Cascade Corporation. - buildwithbmc.com retrieved 2/23/2014

Contacting the company may be a bit tricky. Your easy-to-find options are an online web-comment form that shows no corporate address, or an eleven page list of BMC locations listed by area and product line.

However a more persistent search digs up the following:

Boise Cascade Company
1111 West Jefferson Street Ste 300
Boise, ID 83702-5389
P.O. Box 50
Boise, ID 83728

Tel:
208-384-6161

Boise Cascade Brand
E-mail: BCBrand@bc.com

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Reader Q&A - also see RECOMMENDED ARTICLES & FAQs

Reader Question: my Boise Cascade hardboard siding is in bad shape, how do I get results? Ray Ellison Home.

(June 23, 2014) David Coolbaugh said:

The siding on the house I had built in 1992 is in bad shape. I need it completely replaced on 3 sides. The front is brick. How do I get results?
I live in San Antonio Texas. My neighbor just gave up and had his house re sided with hardi plank.

I think my house should last longer than this. I paid good money for my home. This is wrong. Please contact me. This was a Ray Ellison home. 210-521-2665. Or contact my wife on her cell...Cheryl Coolbaugh 210-535-4680.

Respectfully,

David Coolbaugh

Reply:

Contact the company at the contact points we've given in the article above. Let us know what happens: what you learn will help other readers.

On 2020-07-09 by AustinTX1974

My home was built in 1974 and still has X brand of hardboard, kept together by intense caulking due to butt gaps for 10 years. It's either really dry or rains just enough here, with long intensely hot summers. I wash down the algae every Spring, if it's a wet one.

And, if I can get to it. I'm much older now, so, I didn't attempt the tall ladder to clean it this year.

I noticed yesterday, there are water stains along the ceiling/wall joint on the inside of a corner room. Outside, only the gables have the hardboard, with a wood trim at its base. Beneath that is white stone. I

'll have the roof checked first.
BUT... Bottomline: It's probably time to replace it, but with what?

On 2020-07-09 - by (mod) - X brand of hardboard, kept together by intense caulking

I agree that is a difficult decision, dorry but with no other information i have no advice.

On 2017-12-07 by Lael Anderson

@Barb Dorgan,

We are just starting the process to find out if we can hold any company accountable.

We finished our home in 2004, we have had problem after problem on south side, and now I see a fungus growing out from between boards.... if you have found out anything, please post.... I will do the same. I’m going to start with who manufactured our hard board siding...

On 2017-12-08 - by (mod) - I see a fungus growing out from between boards

Lael

my advice for priorities of attention would be first to discover if there is a significant mold problem in the building as that could be a health hazard.

Second is to discover the source of an extent of leakage and water damage so that you know what steps need to be taken to protect the home from further damage.

When you understand the nature of the leak then you can understand whether there were errors in construction or some other problem.

On 2017-10-14 by Elhanson25@gmail.com - Hardie Plank siding gap issues

My husband and I built several homes for ourselves over the years.. In the summer of 1999, we started a home and it was finished in 2000.

So I am going to have to go back through our records, and find the invoice and /or order form, as I don't recall the exact brand of hardie plank type siding we installed and if was 1999 or 2000.

The irony in all this, was we wanted to put cedar lap siding on, however, the fire department and codes prohibited us for doing this, unless we wanted to put hardie plank type siding and tile roof, the other option was to PUT A $10,000.00++ Sprinkler system in our home.

The design itself was $3500.00 --which we had to pay and finally did what the county suggested choosing a product we were very leery about, as we had just gone through the LP siding deal.

I wonder who got their pockets lined in that deal?) I am telling you my parents had 12" siding applied to their home in late 50's and it has never leaked and is still in great shape!

After a few years we started hearing about Hardie Plank having problems.

(of course they were blaming the installers. .

However, I looked on-line and it seems that the instructions, were not developed until 2001) My husband who'd been in the building business for years, and was there everyday supervising the subs, did not let those stupid mistakes happen!!

Even so, after a few years, we noticed the butt joints on the siding pulling apart terribly!! They expanded and contracted with the weather. (Back them, they didn't have those metal clips/flashing to put behind the butt joints) .

In 2007, we paid a painter re-caulk all those HUGE GAPS IN THE JOINTS around the house, and repaint the entire house...and again, being in this business, my husband was right there watching the subs to make sure they did all the necessary caulking etc..

In 2008,, We started to build a new house (thinking we had that other sold, but then the economy went to love and of course lenders were backing out of all the deals etc, So for approximately the last 9 years, we were renting the home.)

Now my buyer, who has worked for us for several years said the siding has been leaking in areas (especially the south side )and we are going to have to probably replace it soon!! So I am looking into this, as the builder, I have receipts and invoices that will tell me when it was purchased and by who, and the type it was. (depending on the type, it was guaranteed for 25 to 50 years.)

There is a good possibility that if installation instructions were given, I might still have a copy of them! But our experience (mine now-as my husband passed away a couple of years ago) has been extensive in leaking window, leaking siding etc,as we have been in (other than for our own homes) the insurance restoration business for 20++ years!!

And over those years, dealing with 100's of clients every year, You would not believe the wacky things people have done in the building business for years!! However, LP finnaly had to pay *what little they did" and I am almost sure we are going to see the SAME thing with the "Fake'" stucco (EIFS systems) very soon.

People wanted houses with that on them, and believe me it leaks and it they have to fix a wall, etc (In the Pacific Northwest) they are going to not only find dryrot in the siding, sheathing, insulation, and studs!!...

I hope I can figure this out, as we were told Hardi Plank (or Such type of siding) was immersed in water for months or years and it came out of the water just fine. (???) Yeah, but it wasn't exposed to heat and cold so it expanded and contracted a whole lot more than anyone thought it would. pulling the nails out and making huge cracks in the siding!!

AND I AM TELLING YOU, IF YOU HAVE TO RELY ON CAULKING YOUR WINDOWS AND SIDING ETC TO KEEP WATER OUT, TO ME THAT MEANS THE PRODUCT ITSELF IS FAILING!!

Caulk is a band aid and it is not supposed to be your first line of defense in keeping water out!!

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