IIServices · The Trade
Restoration and rot repair, the invisible kind.
The best repair is the one you cannot find. Sill and post surgery, storm damage and the matching of century old profiles, done so old and new read as one hand and the fix disappears into the original.
Old Cape houses are worth saving, and most rot is worse than it looks and fixable when caught. Here is the work, and how we match what was there.
Common repairs
- Sill and post surgery
- Cutting out rotted sill, post base or framing and letting in sound new wood, so the structure is whole again without rebuilding the wall.
- Storm damage
- Repairs after wind and water, from torn shingles and trim to framing, matched back to the original.
- Rotted trim and thresholds
- The wet spots that fail first, sills, thresholds, corner bases and casing, replaced or repaired before the rot spreads.
- Historic profile matching
- Where a molding or a shingle detail is no longer made, we salvage, mill or match it so the repair vanishes.
Repair or replace
- Epoxy consolidation
- For sound but softened wood, especially on a piece worth saving, we can consolidate and rebuild with structural epoxy rather than replace.
- Let in new wood
- Where wood is gone, we let in matching new stock, primed all around, so it lasts and reads as original.
- Match, do not modernize
- On an old house the goal is to make the repair invisible, not to leave a modern patch. That is the whole craft of restoration.
Caught early, it is small
Most rot is a small job if it is caught before it reaches the framing. Left alone, a soft sill becomes a structural repair. If you see paint bubbling or soft trim, it is worth a look now rather than a bigger bill later.
How it is quoted
A site visit to find the real extent, an honest written scope of what needs doing and what can wait, and a price you can hold us to.
Put it in writing.
A site visit and a written proposal cost nothing. Scope, materials, schedule and price, in a document you can hold us to.