Cutting Fiber Cement with Shears
Shears make a nice, clean cut while protecting both your siding material and your lungs
If you’re cutting fiber cement and don’t have a respirator handy, you need to use shears. Shears come in two styles. One type is mounted to a corded drill body. The other style, preferred byFine Homebuildingcontributing editor Mike Guertin, can be easily mounted inside the shaft of a cordless drill. Either way, the keys to using shears successfully are flipping the board over for a nice, clean cut on the face and using a square as a cutting guide.
Want to see more? Watch videos of Mike demonstrating how he makessimple cuts with a circular saw, and thetools he uses to make curved or round cutsin fiber cement.
And to learn more about the tools used when working with fiber cement, readFiber Cement ToolsfromFine Homebuildingissue #193 (Feb/March 2008), pp.82-87.