I want to use HardiePlank siding (mounted horizontally) on the Nudura house that we are building. James Hardie (Europe) are insisting that it is installed on battens with a breather paper underneath. I have no problem with any of that. The bit I can’t get my head round is how to install the trim at the corners of the windows. Our windows are set back to roughly mid-way in the wall and the HardiePlank trim needs to be fixed to something at the corner. The Nudura corner blocks include fixing strips each side of a building corner but you obviously don't get these where standard blocks have been cut to form a window opening. The only idea that I have come up with is to attach one batten on the wall at the next fixing strip along from the window and fix another batten through the end cap into the concrete. I could then put two strips of ply up, one from the wall batten to the corner and one from the end cap batten to the corner. The bits of ply would have battens behind them where they meet at the corner so that they could be solidly fixed together. Anybody got any better ideas? Thanks for your help. Andrew

PS Sorry for the lack of paragraph breaks. I couldn't get the formatting to work!

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look at my post and pictures on the subject "siding and parging around windows" a few pages prior...
i have hardie and stucco on the same house...
hardie is directly screwed to polysteel metal furring strips, no paper...
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Thanks for that, Peter. Maybe I have misunderstood what you are suggesting but I am not sure that it takes me very much further forward as I want to take the siding into the window reveal and I have to use wooden battens (furring strips?) on top of the Nudura blocks as fastening points for the HardiePlank. I am waiting to see what my Nudura rep suggests but at the moment the only way that I can think of doing it is to construct a sort of frame round the corner from the two closest fixing points and screw in to that.

Thanks again.
Andrew