Hebel or other exterior boards

I started another thread about choice of property and construction materials, thought I would ask this separate as I know little of this newer exterior.

Has anyone here have much experience with Hebel ? I looked at a place that I think has used that for exterior, or some other? board, then rendered and painted....this scares me, even though I can see it would have advantages in some ways.

Is it easy to work with ?

Are repairs easy ?

Are there known problems, such as rot, water or other problems that will cause this material problems ?

TIA

 

It goes in and out of favour. A poor Acrylic render job shows all of the block joints in certain light conditions. Must be installed as per the manual.

 

I think the place I saw must have been some sort of sheeting or panels, it was not blocks that I could make out, maybe not even Hebel, The exterior looked like render, but 100% is not render of the normal type.

The presentation looked fine, it was about a 4 year old cookie cutter type home, actually it was the painted surface that is more of a turn off for me, whether as home or rental.

 

You have few options

Hebel
Blue board
Rendered Styrofoam
Poweder coated James Hardie fiber sheets.


Each have their own pros and cons.


I personally used rendered Styrofoam and result was excellent. You can see pic of end result in one of my other post.