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Have to paint the outside of the house this year and I have started on the fiddly stuff like scraping and found 1/2 of the sills have some dry rot. Fortunately it is a single story house and I made a trip to buy wood hardener, putty, epoxy, and some cedar planking. So..... tomorrow morning before the rains start again I will see how deep it goes on the kitchen windows and start the adventure. Already pulled a tick out of my hair, maybe I should get a collar. The good news is I get to use my table saws and planer again. It has been too long.

Good luck Ernie, just make sure it's dry rot and not termites!

good luck indeed .... do hope the damaged area is minimal

Sometimes, a replacement is easier than a repair. The new synthetic silks are much easier to deal with. Good luck.

markiver54 wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 22, 2019 6:49 pm

Good luck Ernie, just make sure it's dry rot and not termites!

It is definitely dry rot.

Ernie wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 22, 2019 10:02 pm

markiver54 wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 22, 2019 6:49 pm

Good luck Ernie, just make sure it's dry rot and not termites!

It is definitely dry rot.

That's good...other repairs are relatively easy. Just comes a time when repairs are necessary..

Get some Git Rot at a marine supply if there is most of the sill left. You just drill several small holes and pour it in. When it hardens you can shape it or sand it and then paint. I was in the carpentry trade for fifty years and I don't know why folks call it dry rot. If if has not gotten wet it would not have rotted.

I’ve seen houses in the plains areas that get very little rain, and sills deteriorate kinda like wet rot. I think because of high heat thru the years that the wood looses all the oils, causing the wood to be almost petrified. I ruined a chain saw blade on a tree that had been dead a few years.

Travlin wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 23, 2019 1:09 am

Get some Git Rot at a marine supply if there is most of the sill left. You just drill several small holes and pour it in. When it hardens you can shape it or sand it and then paint. I was in the carpentry trade for fifty years and I don't know why folks call it dry rot. If if has not gotten wet it would not have rotted.

Off subject, however, makes me think of a pet peeve of my own. That's when people call a "Water Heater " a "Hot Water Heater "!
If the water is already hot, it doesn't need to be heated!

Working on kitchen windows. Cut out rot, worried it down to firmer wood, coated with wood hardener and now another trip to the lumberyard. Going to fill with epoxy putty, sand and attach a new piece of sill. Had to order siding to fill in broken shingles that will take a week to get but it may take me that long to finish this section and be ready to move on to the next set. Hoping to learn along the way so it speeds up some. Only five more to go.Watched many videos last night and they make it look sooooo easy.