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CertainTeed WeatherBoard Fiber Cement Siding Class Action Lawsuit
By Sarah Pierce
UPDATE: This case was consolidated with several other class action lawsuits and a settlement has been reached. See how to file a claim for the CertainTeed Siding Class Action Lawsuit Settlement to potentially receive several thousand dollars if you qualify.
A federal class action lawsuit claims that CertainTeed’s fiber cement siding has been “severely defective” since 2002, when it began making it with fly ash instead of sand to cash in on “large federal tax breaks.” The CertainTeen class action lawsuit comes nearly a year after the company reached a class action settlement over defective organic shingles.
According to the CertainTeed fiber cement siding class action lawsuit, CertainTeed markets its WeathBoards Fiber Cement exterior siding as durable, long-lasting and appropriate for use on the home and other structures.
“However, in contrast to CertainTeed’s warranties and representations concerning their Siding board, the product is severely defective and problematic. CertainTeen WeatherBoard Fiber Cement is not impervious to moisture invasions and degradations. It cracks, warps, rots, buckles, discolors, delaminates, deteriorates and otherwise does not perform as expressly warranted and represented. Nevertheless, CertainTeed continues to sell it to the public and continues to make their false representations and warranties, despite the fact that the product has, and will eventually cause consumers enormous property damage and substantial removal and replacement costs.”
Furthermore, the CertainTeed class action lawsuit states, CertainTeed improperly rejects warranty claims on the defective siding, despite providing a limited 50-year warranty and separate 2-year warranty that it will pay to repair or replace the siding if its determined to be defective.
The CertainTeed class action lawsuit is brought on behalf of all persons and entities who owned, own or acquired homes, residences, buildings or other structures physically located in the U.S., on which CertainTeen WeatherBoards Fiber Cement exterior siding has been installed since 2002 to the present.
A copy of the CertainTeed WeatherBoard Fiber Cement Siding Class Action Lawsuit can be read here.
The case is Michael Patota v. CertainTeen Corporation, Case No. 1:11-mi-99999-UNA, United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia.
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28 thoughts onCertainTeed WeatherBoard Fiber Cement Siding Class Action Lawsuit
Does anyone know if this stuff ever stabilizes or does it just keep getting worse?
Purchased prefinished Certainteed siding in 2004 and now have 21 cracked pieces on one side. The offer they made me as settlement is laughable. Where do I go from here?
We had our home built in 2004 and the siding started to shrink within 3 years. Certainteed send a person to look at it and said they’d give up 3k to replace it but won’t cover the labor.
My home is 4 years old Ive had the siding replaced twice. They would only replace the broken pieces then you have to paint it. Of the course the paint doesn’t exactly match. I am now having all the siding replaced . Its going to cost $17,500. Yes im getting the best. If this class action suite put them out of business so be it.
We have 4 townhomes that were built in 2004 with CertainTeed siding. All 4 of the townhomes are having trouble with boards cracking. Been working with CertainTeed for aver a year to get boards under warrantee. They just give me the run-around. I’m not even sure I’d want the replacement boards – I’m pretty sure we are going to have to take down the defective CertainTeed material and replace the complete siding on all 4 units.
We built our house in 2005 and siding started splitting within 6 months. The builder contacted Certainteed. They came out and determined it was due to shrinkage. They were supposed to send us 120 sheets of siding and $1000 for labor. We have contacted several times since we never received anything. Now the entire house is totally cracked and will need to be replaced. This was told to them the last time I talked to them. Was told to take pictures and label the location of the crack. This year our basement started leaking around window and will have to redo sheet rock. I told them they already admitted shrinkage and they will take care of it. We will see!
I have the same issue with a home built in 2008. I have been attempting to negotiate the costs of the labor to pull the junk they sold me off, and put new sidiing on, but they have callously refused. Anyone on this post have suggestions for a suitable resolution?
Thanks!
I have a house built in 2009 that has this siding on it. In t he first year there were just a few cracked pieces of siding. I now have 19 pieces, probably more.
I installed this siding on 2 houses and started having clouding of the factory redwood stain and noticed a slight bowing of them within 1 snow season on the lower areas that would get covered in snow. Within a little over 2 years I had some cracks forming in some of the panels that both the owner and I thought might have been caused by kids, though there was no impact indication of any kind. More cracked panels have formed elsewhere including higher up and the warping and shrinking is evident in a lot of the siding now as well as sections of panels cracking and falling off altogether. This is not the quality work I do and even though I had originally wanted Hardie siding, my lumber and building supply here in the mountain community didn’t carry Hardie products, but Certainteed. I had always known Certainteed to be a quality company and opted to do my business locally utilizing their product. Now, I wish I never had as it will likely lead to lawsuits against me because of their misrepresented product.
We have exactly the same issue as Michael. Certaineed has offered to pay us the cost of the siding material at $4,800.00 but no labor costs. We feel this is unfair since the siding was installed only 6 years ago.
The labor alone just to remove and haul away the defective siding will be $3,000.00. That does not include the cost of the new siding and the cost to install the new siding.