Mine is painted - check their website for staining info . Mine is being installed
right now and I noticed their is alot of white dust that tends to get all over the boards - so you may have to do some clean up . Good luck

Mikey,

I don't think you need to re-prime. Our house sat over winter before being stained (first coat) and another winter before everything got a second coat. Ours is Certainteed, but that primer coat is pretty durable. We had a friend sink (on purpose) a chunk of fiber cement siding in the lake, left it there all winter (MN) and retrieved it the next summer. It looked exactly the same. That sold him on putting it on his house. We also had small stacks left outside for nearly two years and other than cleaning off some dirt that had accumulated they were like new and put up to finish some small areas.

BTW we decided on using a Cabot acrylic stain rather than paint on the advice of a friend who is a professional painter. We've been happy so far.

Jill

P.S. Congrats on the move in!