What are the pros and cons of vinyl siding vs hardiplank?

Thank you,

Vinyl can crack if hit with a hard object but it will not require much long term maintenance and is cheaper. Hardiplank has deeper texture and may look a bit more like real wood. You must paint it or buy pre-painted planks with a 15 year paint warranty. The plank itself has a 50 year warranty.

Unless Your Wanting A Wood Like Appearance From The Street, Id Just Go With Viynl Siding, You Really Don't Want To Paint Do You?
The Hardi Plank Is Some Dusty Work To. Great For Your Tools. Right Ballenger , Good Luck , Nichols Trim

I realize this is an old post, but I am looking at the same sort of options. Frankly, the ability to repaint is somewhat of a plus to me. It can be nice to change colors down the road. I am a fairly skilled amateur. Is replacing my current siding (1 x 10 roughsawn pine... lousy!) something I might want to tackle? My biggest concern is how to go about replacing the planks where the electric meter enters. Any advice? The hardiplank looks good to me and is reasonably priced at about seven bucks for a 12 foot board, 8" wide.

I realize this is an old post, but I am looking at the same sort of options. Frankly, the ability to repaint is somewhat of a plus to me. It can be nice to change colors down the road. I am a fairly skilled amateur. Is replacing my current siding (1 x 10 roughsawn pine...lousy!) something I might want to tackle? My biggest concern is how to go about replacing the planks where the electric meter enters. Any advice? The hardiplank looks good to me and is reasonably priced at about seven bucks for a 12 foot board, 8" wide.

I've been researching this online-- to decide what to put on my house. Haven't made a decision yet, but have found references that there is some danger to installing hardiplank yourself because of the dust(which contains silicon) you might breath in.

A decent respirator should handle that.

Call power company and ask about having power temporarily disconnected. If you work up to the meter and service entrance cable, then schedule power disconnect you shouldn't be with out power long. You may have to have electrical permit and inspection. If you are using power tools have a standby generator. If you don't have to have permit your outage should be hours.

Thanks for that reply. That part of it is the major hang up.