The epoxy is an elastomeric wood repair epoxy. Hit your browser's "back" button to return to this article.) I’ve since developed a new system of repairing rot in non-structural applications. When it was all finished, you couldn’t see the repair. I shaped it to a reasonable facsimile of stucco and primed it. You could actually rough-mold it to your desired shape. This was huge! While impatiently waiting for the foam to cure, so I could begin cutting it away, I found that you could push it back in and compress it. Here is where my accidental discovery came into play. I thought that, if controlled, it could be a very convincing stand-in for stucco. I had a can of black expanding polyurethane foam from another job. While looking in the van for a solution, it hit me. The problem/opportunity was that, after replacing the old trim, there was a varying gap between the trim and the stucco wall of between 1/2 in. There wasn’t money to do it right, but if it looked bad it would reflect badly on me. The job was a set price, so cost was definitely a consideration. The job consisted of putting up some PVC trim around a window to try to match all the other previously-finished windows. RevelationĪ few months ago, I was doing a job as a sub for another service. And who can blame them? A 1-quart can of Bondo costs about $11, while the equivalent amount of epoxy is over $200. Bondo, most customers choose Bondo without a moment’s hesitation. I’ve found that after explaining the cost-benefit analysis of epoxy vs. It does a superb job, but at $5.00 a blob (that’s my unit of measurement for it 1 blob = the size of a golf ball, 18 blobs per tube) you can quickly spend upwards of $100 for the epoxy alone. While simply cutting out and replacing the rotted material may be the preferred method, there are times when circumstances (or budget) just won’t allow for it. I’ve come to the conclusion that they all have their place in the hierarchy of repair options. I’ve used all of the commonly accepted practices-like cutting out and replacing the rotted piece and using structural repair epoxy-as well as not-so-accepted practices, like using Bondo. I’ve repaired a lot of rotting trim in the past few years-mostly window sills, door framing trim, and garage door trim. Repairing rot in non-structural wood trim
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