How to Repair Rotted Wood

Rebuild and restore rotted wood without replacing information technology.

Introduction

Employ a polyester filler to rebuild rotted or damaged forest. You can mold and shape it to friction match the original wood contour. It takes paint well and won't rot.

Tools Required

Materials Required

  • 100-dust sandpaper
  • Polyester filler
  • Wood hardener (consolidant)

Project step-past-pace (three)

Step 1

Repair wood with polyester filler: Apply wood hardener and filler

filler

To repair rotted door frame, first remove rotted wood with a 5-in-one or other sharp tool. Then coat the rotted door frame area with wood hardener as shown. Mix polyester wood filler or Bondo forest filler and printing information technology into the recess with a putty pocketknife.

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Step 2

Shape and smoothen

knife

Cleave the partially hardened sagging Bondo wood filler with a putty knife or chisel. Add another layer of filler if necessary to the rotted door frame.

If you've done any auto body repair, yous've probably worked with ii-part polyester filler. Minwax High Performance Wood Filler is one brand formulated for wood repair, but a gallon container of Bondo wood filler or some other brand of two-function auto body polyester will also work and may be less expensive for larger fixes.

The process for repairing wood is much the aforementioned whether you're using polyester filler or epoxy. Instead of epoxy consolidant, you'll apply High Performance Woods Hardener to solidify and strengthen the wood fibers (Photo 1). Polyester begins hardening faster than Abatron WoodEpox. Depending on the temperature, you'll have almost x to 15 minutes to piece of work before the filler starts to harden.

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Step iii

Smoothen out the repair

Pocket Plane

Also, unlike WoodEpox, polyester tends to sag when y'all're doing vertical repairs. Ane trick is to build a class and line it with plastic sheeting. Press the form against the filler and attach it with screws. And so pull information technology off later the filler hardens. Or yous tin look until the sagging filler reaches the hardness of soap and carve information technology off with a putty knife or chisel or shape information technology with a Surform plane or rasp (Photograph two). Most medium to large repairs volition require at least two layers of filler. Complete the repair by sanding and priming the filled area and and so painting.

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Originally Published: February eleven, 2019