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Your casement windows are the most vunerable to wood rot because of their design. Water enters the sash between
the glass and the wood frame and gets trapped. Water also enters the sill due to lack of paint and caulking resulting in rot.The
side jambs are likey to rot when the sill is rotting. Your double hung windows also have wood rot occur
in the sill at the sides where water enters in behind the sash tracks and under the brick mold. All of your windows
can have wood rot occur in the brick mold at the ends and at the corners.
Your doors will also have wood rot occur near the bottom of the unit on the side jambs and brick mold. Wood rot
also can be found on the door itself near the bottom if it is a wood door. Your garage doors will rot near the horizontal
seams and the bottom edge. Your wood french and sliding door units will rot on the bottom near the glass and
under the door unit causing the door unit to become loose or drop in its mounting. The brick mold and side jambs will also
rot.
If you live in Johnson County your house is likely covered
with siding materials that are made of either sawdust and glue or wood chips and glue. They form them into siding panels
that in most climates work very well to protect the home they are installed on. Several factors here in Kansas cause
these products not to last as long on your house as they should. The manufacturers instructions are not followed during
the installation and this allows rain water to soak into the the unprotected ends of your siding causing it to
soften and crumble. The siding is often installed directly over another layer of hard insulation or fiber board
trapping moisture in the siding should it enter and resulting in rot and decay. Nails used to attach your siding
are pushed to far in and the protective cover of your siding is broken exposing the siding to rain water and resulting
in rot.
Trim boards are usually not primed prior to being painted during the construction of the
home and the paint used flakes off allowing water to infiltrate and rot the boards. Trim boards also come loose becuase the
wrong size nail was used or not enough nails were used to hold the board. Pine trim boards are sometimes used
and they are not as rot resistant as other woods like cedar.
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We are experts at finding and eliminating wood rot.
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