# Rotten Wood Repair in Dunwoody, GA

> A spongy sill under a Dunwoody oak doesn't condemn the window. **We remove the decayed wood entirely, mill an exact copy of the piece in real lumber, and splice it in — from $375.** Never filler, never foam, never paint over rot.

**From $375 · 4.9 · 473+ reviews**

## The Trees That Sold You the Street Are Slowly Eating Your Sills

Dunwoody's tree canopy is the whole point of the place — the oaks and hickories arching over The Branches and Wynterhall are why these streets feel the way they do. They're also why the north side of your house never truly dries. After an afternoon thunderstorm, a sunlit sill sheds its moisture by evening; a shaded one stays damp into the next day, and fungus only needs wood to stay wet. That's why Dunwoody rot has a signature address: the north-facing sills, the corner behind the hollies, the trim the irrigation head mists every morning at six. The original 1970s lumber in these houses is genuinely good wood — but fifty years means fifty seasons of paint seams opening a hair at a time, and every open seam is a straw.
- Paint that lifts, checks or bubbles along the sill nose
- A thumbnail sinks in → the decay is already established below
- Shaded and north-facing elevations always go first — physics, not luck
- The sprinkler-side sill: watered daily like a garden bed, and it rots like one

## The Rot Leaves the House. A Milled Copy of the Piece Takes Its Place

There's a fast version of this repair going door to door: push filler into the soft spot, sand, paint, cash the check. Twelve months later the bubble is back, because the fungus never left — it just got a roof. We work the opposite way. Probing tells us where sound wood actually begins; everything decayed comes out to clean, square cuts. Then our bench mills a replacement section from laminated lumber, reproducing the original 1970s profile — the sill nose, the wash slope, the drip kerf underneath — and splices it in with joinery tight enough to vanish under primer and paint. On a Williamsburg-colonial facade where every sill line shows from the street, that invisibility is the standard, not a bonus. And before we leave, we name what fed the rot — the sprinkler arc, the failed caulk joint, the clogged gutter — so the new wood doesn't inherit the old diet.
- Window sills and sashes — rebuilt in real wood from $375
- Door frames, thresholds and brickmould — from $475
- Laminated lumber shrugs off moisture by its very construction
- The water source gets diagnosed and named, not just the damage

## How Rotten Wood Repair Works in Dunwoody

Honest probing, per-piece pricing, bench-milled copies — carpentry that saves original houses.
- **Find the True Edge of the Damage** — We probe past the paint into joints, sill horns and end grain to map exactly where decay stops and sound wood begins — before any number is quoted.
- **Put Every Piece on Paper** — Window wood from $375, door-frame wood from $475, door sash from $575 — each damaged section is its own written line before a saw comes out.
- **Mill the Copy, Make the Splice** — The replacement is fabricated in laminated lumber to the original profile and joined in so cleanly the seam disappears under finish.
- **Seal the Wood, Cut Off the Water** — Primed on every face, painted, caulked watertight — with the moisture source corrected and a 5-year written workmanship warranty behind it all.

## How Much Does Rotten Wood Repair Cost in Dunwoody?

Rot repair in Dunwoody is billed by the piece from our printed catalog — the identical numbers we quote in every metro, put in writing before any cutting begins:
- **Window sash or sill** — rebuilt in real wood from $375
- **Door frame wood** — from $475 · **door sash** — from $575
- **Brickmould, trim and porch profiles** — quoted per assessment
- **For scale** — a new wood window lands around $2,000 installed

## Why Dunwoody Homeowners Choose WowFix
- **Backed by a Warranty** — Every repair comes with a written workmanship warranty. If it's not right, we come back and make it right.
- **Repair, Not Replace** — We fix the part that failed — glass, seal, sash or hardware — so you keep your windows and skip full-replacement cost.
- **Our Own Technicians** — Your repair is done by our own technicians, never subcontracted — visits run on scheduled routes with a firm appointment date.
- **Upfront, Honest Pricing** — A clear quote before any work starts. No hidden fees, no upsells, no pressure to replace what we can repair.

## Rotten Wood Repair in Dunwoody — FAQ

**Q: Only the sills on the back of the house are soft — the front looks perfect. Why?**

A: Look up: the back of the house is where the canopy is. Shaded wood can stay damp for a day or more after each storm while sunlit wood dries in hours, and rot fungus only works on wood that stays wet. It's the most common pattern we see in Dunwoody — pristine street side, soft canopy side. Each affected piece is rebuilt from $375, and the shade itself just means we spec the finish and caulk lines for slow-drying exposure.

**Q: The wood in our 1975 house is supposedly better than modern lumber. Is it still worth rebuilding?**

A: Emphatically — that's the argument for the splice. The sound portions of a '70s sill are usually tighter-grained than anything at a lumberyard today, so we save every inch of them, remove only the decayed section, and marry in a milled copy. You keep the good old wood and get new, moisture-resistant laminated stock exactly where the old wood failed.

**Q: A handyman quoted us half your price to epoxy and paint it. What's the catch?**

A: The catch is that decay is alive. Filler or epoxy pressed over active rot seals moisture in with the fungus, and the softness keeps spreading under the cosmetic skin — typically resurfacing within a year, now bigger. Our rule has no asterisks: decayed wood is cut out to sound material and real wood is spliced in. That's why our rebuild carries a 5-year written warranty and a patch job carries a repaint schedule.

**Q: Our swim-tennis HOA is particular about street-facing trim. Will the repair show?**

A: No — invisibility is the acceptance test. The replacement piece is milled to the exact original profile, including the nose radius and drip kerf, spliced with tight joinery and finished to match. From the sidewalk the sill simply looks freshly painted, which is all an architectural committee ever asks of it.

**Q: We found soft trim during a pre-listing walkthrough. Fix now or credit the buyer?**

A: Fix now, almost every time. Inspectors probe trim with an awl and painted-over rot is precisely what they're trained to find — and once it's in the report, the buyer's repair credit demand will dwarf the from-$375 rebuild cost. A documented splice repair with a written warranty, by contrast, reads as a maintenance receipt.

**Q: The sill is gone but the window above it works fine. Surely we don't need a new window?**

A: You don't — that's the entire premise. The sill is a component, and components get rebuilt: from $375, versus roughly $2,000 installed for a comparable new wood window plus the trim and paint work replacement drags along. If probing ever shows a frame truly beyond saving, both figures go on the same written sheet and you decide with real numbers.

## Serving Dunwoody & Metro Atlanta

We rebuild rotted wood across Dunwoody — the shaded colonial streets of the Club Estates, Redfield and The Branches, the ranches of Dunwoody North — and throughout metro Atlanta on scheduled routes.

In Dunwoody: Dunwoody Village, Dunwoody Club Estates, The Branches, Wynterhall, Redfield, Georgetown, Dunwoody North, Kingsley
Also in Dunwoody: Foggy Windows — Dunwoody, Window Repair — Dunwoody, Glass Repair — Dunwoody, Atlanta Metro Hub, WowFix in Georgia

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