Great video! I just used it on two rotted out window sills on 1906 house. Now working on large fluted column on front porch. Interesting that you used that metal tube. Brilliant! I have cut 3/4 inch treated tongue and groove left over boards for our porch to a length of about 2 feet and then reaching inside I screw in from outside and countersink. This hopefully will then give good strength so I can remove ancient failed patches of plaster. The rolling pin has me thinking... it could really help me in trying to shape the flutes!!! Thanks for the video!!! Abatron is a great product.
Hi! Thank you very much for the compliment. If you take a look at my page I can show you what it looks like after 2 seasons of Florida weather. Spoiler alert it held up great
Thanks for taking your time to share how to do this. We're renovating/restoring a 1928. I would like to see a video of how you restored your original floors.
The repair we did is still rock solid. Honestly we had no idea how to do this until we found Wood Epox. The tin isn't structural, it just helped form the work.
Thank you so much. We have one last room to finish with the Heart of Pine, so I will put that together, but in a few weeks. BTW this repair is still going strong
Great video, thank you for sharing your expertise and knowledge for this type repair. I have been researching for months to try and find a solution to 1 of my wood columns rotting at the bottom. Not sure if I am capable of making the repair, however worth a shot to try and salvage.
Jen, make sure it is dry and you remove as much rot as possible! After a year in the Florida elements all of the columns we did (this was by far the worst) are strong and look great
Randy, finally someone who knows what they are doing. I have 4 22' high wood columns wiht one of them that is really bad. Are you by chance in Toronto that you could come out to look at my home?
Hi Fillipina! Unfortunately I am far away from your home. However I would most certainly use the liquid hardener as soon as possible so you can stop the spread of rot. When we began we had no idea there was as much damage as there was, hidden under paint. Then you can make a plan on how to proceed and whether you need to support the porch while you repair
this was great I just bought a 1890 house the porch has rotten boards as well and the box gutters leak does your house have them and if it does did they leak as well and how did u fix them thanks this was great
Frances Moore Hi! we did not have box gutters. it was a tin roof which drained directly down with some of it hitting right in front of the columns which caused a lot of the rot.. however I did have some rot caused by misdirected runoff. I redirected the runoff by changing the tin curvature and then use the Wood Epox to fix the wood that was rotted
Hi Randy. Thank you for this video. So helpful. My husband and I would love to see that video you mention at the the end, of your restoration of a hardwood pine wood floor using the same product! Is that possible? Thank you!
Hi Martha...funny thing even though we di this in Novembet we are only finishing the floors now. I may have missed this by a day but ill see if there is a hole or two to make one for you
Hi Martha, We are actually coating the floors with a thin coat of woca oil now, so I missed the termite holes by a day. However, if you have that red heart of pine wood and are going to use woca to preserve it, I can tell you how we did this with wood epox and red wood filler.
Amazing video thank you, we have water intrusion on the wooden sill atop a concrete foundation for our sunroom. I assume this product will work for that, since it says it strengthens the wood. Also, will the rot continue to spread if you miss some? obviously I'd try to get it all cut out but if I did miss a patch would the the rot keep going? I've been curious about this for a while. Thanks.
stronger way to fix this is to go to local telephone pole place and find pole same diameter as your front porch, then just cut to length and replace the entire collumn or just the bottom section. at a bare minimum one should stick a 4x4 of treated wood in the center of the pole and use structural screws to strengthen the connection. If pole is not painted regularly the epoxy will eventually crack after many years and then you loose structural integrity
Hi and thank you for watching the video. We had more than one column in similar condition and they looked much better going in but once we started removing the rotted wood we had a similar one to the one in the video. In one case we had to gouge out some of the work it was about a 2-inch by 2-inch area and redo it but not on the column in the video. The repair that we made is been over a year and that one has been holding well so do the best you can to get as much rotted wood as you can off just keep making sure that you don't lose structural integrity and take too much! Again thank you for watching
How about Copper wool and patching cement? My idea is to clean out the bad wood , stuff the rotted bottom openings of the column with copper wool and then skim over with a thick cement patch mix. I do not have a lot of money for specialized products and have a sack of cement in the garage.
I liked this but unless it was a historic house, not just old, I think I would have looked at some of the new products out there for a load bearing post. I feel there is a market for reproduction of classic windows etc. that is not being met.
@@randycoppola2069 I agree. My own home is only 40 years old and it is sure important to me! I have things like M&W windows that have a historic look and would never replace them or the bull nose treatments I had under them. What I was thinking is that a home that is a true historic house may have to have the exact look as the original, where as in my case I can deal a with a little variation in the look as a trade for modern rot proof items.
Fascinating shit. Anyone know if this stuff is uh, unappealing to argentine ants (damned near the same thing as termites in their destruction but also a helluva clean-up crew. Stupid bugs and their usefulness trying to offset their pestiness!!)?
wow, I was deinitely hesitant when I saw the initial damage. Absolutely astonishing after!
My home was built in 1900. This gives me an idea of what to do with my columns now.
Good hunting! This does a lot of different jobs, corners etc.
great job for a couple of neophytes. the sheet metal at the inside was smart. thank you.
Great video! I just used it on two rotted out window sills on 1906 house. Now working on large fluted column on front porch. Interesting that you used that metal tube. Brilliant! I have cut 3/4 inch treated tongue and groove left over boards for our porch to a length of about 2 feet and then reaching inside I screw in from outside and countersink. This hopefully will then give good strength so I can remove ancient failed patches of plaster. The rolling pin has me thinking... it could really help me in trying to shape the flutes!!! Thanks for the video!!! Abatron is a great product.
Great video! Thank you for taking the time to create a well made example for us to learn by.
Hi! Thank you very much for the compliment. If you take a look at my page I can show you what it looks like after 2 seasons of Florida weather. Spoiler alert it held up great
I’ll be sure to check it out. Thanks again.
wonderful work! thanks.
Thanks for taking your time to share how to do this. We're renovating/restoring a 1928. I would like to see a video of how you restored your original floors.
ruclips.net/video/cNF6oJUO7U4/видео.html Hi Deborah, here it is!
Thank you!! I have 6 columns on my front porch with 3 of them completely rotted at the bottom..
The repair we did is still rock solid. Honestly we had no idea how to do this until we found Wood Epox. The tin isn't structural, it just helped form the work.
I really like this video saved me a lot of time after watching other videos. I would really like to see the other video
Thank you so much. We have one last room to finish with the Heart of Pine, so I will put that together, but in a few weeks. BTW this repair is still going strong
Hi! I finally posted the final floor video, hope you like it!
Great video, thank you for sharing your expertise and knowledge for this type repair. I have been researching for months to try and find a solution to 1 of my wood columns rotting at the bottom. Not sure if I am capable of making the repair, however worth a shot to try and salvage.
Jen, make sure it is dry and you remove as much rot as possible! After a year in the Florida elements all of the columns we did (this was by far the worst) are strong and look great
Here is the job after 2 rainy seasons! ruclips.net/video/ANFIyLzAl5Y/видео.html
I'm doing the same on a column that is on a 1865 home how did yours turn out?
Thanks this is a great video
Thank you! I ahve another one on the channel showing the repairs two years later
Neat job BUT will it take the weight of the porch roof in unconfined compression?
well its still going strong, 5 years now. Did the fascia on the other pillars unconfined compression methinbks
Randy, finally someone who knows what they are doing. I have 4 22' high wood columns wiht one of them that is really bad. Are you by chance in Toronto that you could come out to look at my home?
Hi Fillipina! Unfortunately I am far away from your home. However I would most certainly use the liquid hardener as soon as possible so you can stop the spread of rot. When we began we had no idea there was as much damage as there was, hidden under paint. Then you can make a plan on how to proceed and whether you need to support the porch while you repair
this was great I just bought a 1890 house the porch has rotten boards as well and the box gutters leak does your house have them and if it does did they leak as well and how did u fix them thanks this was great
Frances Moore Hi! we did not have box gutters. it was a tin roof which drained directly down with some of it hitting right in front of the columns which caused a lot of the rot.. however I did have some rot caused by misdirected runoff. I redirected the runoff by changing the tin curvature and then use the Wood Epox to fix the wood that was rotted
Wondering how to determine how much product to buy. Was there a measure (e.g.: for X-size hole, it will take X-ounces...)?
I would not use this for anything load baring
I would love to see the video on how you restored a wood floor with this product. We live in a home that is 104 years old and are restoring it as well
Hi please look at my playlist of videos for the floor restoration short... I hope you like it 😊
This method is ok for the load bearing columns (half base is rotten)?
Yes, the one I fixed was. Better to use a jack post while uncertain until the job is done though
I'd like to see the video on how you repaired your upstairs floor. Thanks for this video.
Hi Randy. Thank you for this video. So helpful. My husband and I would love to see that video you mention at the the end, of your restoration of a hardwood pine wood floor using the same product! Is that possible? Thank you!
Hi Martha...funny thing even though we di this in Novembet we are only finishing the floors now. I may have missed this by a day but ill see if there is a hole or two to make one for you
Hi Martha,
We are actually coating the floors with a thin coat of woca oil now, so I missed the termite holes by a day. However, if you have that red heart of pine wood and are going to use woca to preserve it, I can tell you how we did this with wood epox and red wood filler.
Hi Martha, I just post a video showing termite repair and Woca oil finish if you are still on the project!
What were there products u used?
could this be done with bondo?
No it's totally different as it it is weight bearing
Amazing video thank you, we have water intrusion on the wooden sill atop a concrete foundation for our sunroom. I assume this product will work for that, since it says it strengthens the wood. Also, will the rot continue to spread if you miss some? obviously I'd try to get it all cut out but if I did miss a patch would the the rot keep going? I've been curious about this for a while. Thanks.
Is the liquid wood strictly a strengthening agent? My wood is strong, I just need a filler, can I skip the liquid wood?
It helps the putty bond to the wood
stronger way to fix this is to go to local telephone pole place and find pole same diameter as your front porch, then just cut to length and replace the entire collumn or just the bottom section.
at a bare minimum one should stick a 4x4 of treated wood in the center of the pole and use structural screws to strengthen the connection. If pole is not painted regularly the epoxy will eventually crack after many years and then you loose structural integrity
I completely agree with this, its best to put a pole inside or a piece of wood in the interior to provide supporteven though its not load bearing.
Hi and thank you for watching the video. We had more than one column in similar condition and they looked much better going in but once we started removing the rotted wood we had a similar one to the one in the video. In one case we had to gouge out some of the work it was about a 2-inch by 2-inch area and redo it but not on the column in the video. The repair that we made is been over a year and that one has been holding well so do the best you can to get as much rotted wood as you can off just keep making sure that you don't lose structural integrity and take too much! Again thank you for watching
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How much did you charge
This was a friend's house so I probably got a good meal or two
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How about Copper wool and patching cement? My idea is to clean out the bad wood , stuff the rotted bottom openings of the column with copper wool and then skim over with a thick cement patch mix. I do not have a lot of money for specialized products and have a sack of cement in the garage.
Hi! I can't speak for something I haven't tried so all I can add is definitely make sure you get as much rot and moisture you can out before the job!
I would be surprise it has the sufficient strength (it's has no fiber)
I liked this but unless it was a historic house, not just old, I think I would have looked at some of the new products out there for a load bearing post. I feel there is a market for reproduction of classic windows etc. that is not being met.
I guess all older homes are important to the owner.
@@randycoppola2069 I agree. My own home is only 40 years old and it is sure important to me! I have things like M&W windows that have a historic look and would never replace them or the bull nose treatments I had under them. What I was thinking is that a home that is a true historic house may have to have the exact look as the original, where as in my case I can deal a with a little variation in the look as a trade for modern rot proof items.
If this doesn't crack somewhere down the line....THAT was impressive...........
take your time, it is a good product and gets results. New rot will come before this fails
WOW!
Dana Scully thank you...still holding up strong too
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Fascinating shit. Anyone know if this stuff is uh, unappealing to argentine ants (damned near the same thing as termites in their destruction but also a helluva clean-up crew. Stupid bugs and their usefulness trying to offset their pestiness!!)?