Rotted Sill, Caught in Time
Decay cut out completely and rebuilt in real wood — no filler, no new window.
A soft sill on a fifteen-year-old house isn't a verdict on the house. The rotten section gets sawn out to healthy wood, an exact real-lumber duplicate gets milled, and the splice vanishes under paint — from $375. Filler and epoxy over rot? Never — that's the shortcut we exist to undo.
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Real WowFix job — drag to see the difference.
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Cypress homeowners assume rot is an old-house disease — then find a thumbnail sinking into a sill on a house built in 2010. The culprit is usually standing in the flower bed. HOA-grade irrigation runs before sunrise, and a misaligned head mists the same sill and brickmould every single morning; mulch beds get topped off each spring until the pile bridges the weep gap and holds moisture directly against the trim; and between waterings, Gulf humidity makes sure the fiber never truly dries. Fiber-cement siding on these homes hides the fact that the window frames, door jambs and brickmould behind it are still wood. Decay fungus asks only for sustained moisture, and a Cypress landscape package delivers it on a timer — north walls, fence-shaded corners and bed-facing sills going first.
Every spongy sill in Cypress eventually meets a tub of wood filler — pressed into the mush, sanded, painted, photographed. And underneath, the fungus keeps eating, because the patch never removed the infected wood. We work by a rule with no exceptions: probe until the boundary of genuinely healthy lumber is found, saw out everything soft on clean square lines, then mill a duplicate of the missing section from laminated stock — original profile, slope and drip kerf reproduced — and splice it home until primer and paint hide the joint. Laminated lumber stands up to Gulf moisture by its very construction; the assessment also fingers the water source — that sprinkler head, that mulch pile — so the corner never fails twice; and the written 5-year warranty covers it all. Window wood starts at $375, while a brand-new wood window for that same opening is roughly $2,000 installed.
Probe honestly, quote in writing, fabricate exactly, splice cleanly — carpentry, not cosmetics.
Decay gets traced to where it truly stops — beneath paint, inside joints, down the sill horns — before we quote, since rot always runs wider than the soft spot you can see.
Window pieces from $375, door frame lumber from $475, door sashes from $575 — every item its own written line before a saw touches the house.
The stand-in piece is milled from laminated stock to match the original's profile precisely — a duplicate of what's coming out, never a generic board caulked in.
Tight joints, seams sanded to nothing, then primer, paint and watertight sealing — the whole rebuild under the written 5-year workmanship warranty.
Rot work in Cypress is priced piece by piece off the printed catalog, with the written total in hand before cutting begins:
Every repair comes with a written workmanship warranty. If it's not right, we come back and make it right.
We fix the part that failed — glass, seal, sash or hardware — so you keep your windows and skip full-replacement cost.
Your repair is done by our own technicians, never subcontracted — visits run on scheduled routes with a firm appointment date.
A clear quote before any work starts. No hidden fees, no upsells, no pressure to replace what we can repair.
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We rebuild rotted wood across the Cypress master plans — irrigated corner lots in Bridgeland and Towne Lake, Fairfield and Coles Crossing streets under their maturing oaks, Cypress Creek Lakes and BlackHorse Ranch — on scheduled routes with firm dates.
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No stock footage, no actors — this is one of our actual jobs. Watch a rotted, fogged-out window brought back to flawless, like-new condition.
Snap a clear photo of every foggy, cracked or stuck window in natural light. Morning light shows fog between the panes best and lets us quote faster — often before we arrive.
Jot down the symptom per window — fog between the glass, won't open or stay up, draft, cracked pane, or rotted frame. It tells us whether it's a glass-only swap (from $198) or hardware/wood work.
Move furniture, blinds and décor back roughly three feet so our crew can measure and work safely. It keeps the visit quick and your things out of the way.
If you have the original window brand, a sticker in the frame, or install paperwork, set it aside. It's not required, but it helps us match glass and parts on the first trip.
Unlock gates, secure pets, and clear the exterior path to the windows. Most glass-unit work is done from both sides, so outside access keeps everything one visit.
Decay cut out completely and rebuilt in real wood — no filler, no new window.
We fabricate an exact-profile piece from laminated lumber and splice it in.
New glass built to the window's exact size — frame and trim untouched.
The pane is the part that failed — so the pane is the part we replace.
A failed seal, not a failed window: the sealed unit is swapped, the frame stays.
Rotted bottom rebuilt on-site — a fraction of the ~$10,000 a new door runs.
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Lead Window & Door Repair Specialist
This content is written by Eugene Ko, a master craftsman with 17+ years of hands-on experience in residential and commercial window repair. Eugene has personally completed over 15,000 window and door repairs across North Carolina, so every answer here is grounded in real field experience — not guesswork.
Last updated: July 19, 2026