# Rotten Wood Repair in Katy, TX > A soft sill or a crumbling frame corner doesn't condemn the whole window. **The decayed wood comes out entirely, an exact duplicate of the piece gets milled in real lumber, and the new piece splices in — from $375.** No filler, no epoxy cosmetics, no paint over rot. Ever. **From $375 · 4.9 · 473+ reviews** ## In Katy, the Rot Is Often on Payroll — Your Irrigation System's The manicured lawns that make the master-plans beautiful come with a hidden tax. Irrigation heads across Cinco Ranch, Grand Lakes and Seven Meadows run on their HOA-tidy schedules, and the ones set a little wrong mist the same window sills and door casings every morning at dawn — then the Gulf's humidity spends the rest of the day making sure nothing dries. Wood that never dries is wood that rots. The second route in is overhead: on the shadeless west elevations, the prairie sun cooks paint film until it checks and hairlines, and every crack becomes a straw feeding water into the builder trim behind it — much of it finger-jointed stock primed once at the factory and never again. The test is simple and honest: press a thumbnail into the suspect spot. Sound wood pushes back. Decayed wood dents like cork, no matter how recent the paint job on top of it. - Sprinkler overspray wetting the same sill on a daily schedule - Sun-checked paint on west faces funneling water into the trim - A thumbnail that sinks in means the fungus is already deep - Shaded north corners that stay damp for days after each storm ## Rot Doesn't Get Patched Here — It Gets Removed and the Piece Rebuilt Every handyman flyer in the area pitches the same shortcut: press some wood filler or epoxy into the soft spot, paint it smooth by dinner. It photographs beautifully and fails on schedule, because the fungus keeps eating the wood underneath the cosmetic shell — in this humidity, usually within a year or two. Our repair is carpentry with one non-negotiable rule: probe to the honest boundary of sound wood, cut out everything soft with clean square edges, then fabricate a duplicate of the missing piece from laminated lumber — milled to the original profile, bevels and drip kerfs included — and splice it in until primer and paint erase the seam. Laminated stock resists Gulf moisture by its very construction, which makes the rebuild stronger than the builder trim it replaces. And before we leave, the water source gets named — the misaimed sprinkler head, the failed caulk line, the checked paint — so the same corner never calls us twice. - Sills and sashes — real-lumber rebuilds from $375 - Thresholds, brickmould and door frames — from $475 - Laminated lumber outperforms the original builder stock - The moisture source is identified and fixed, not ignored ## How Rotten Wood Repair Works in Katy Honest probing, written pricing, exact fabrication, clean splicing — how good houses stay out of the replacement funnel. - **Map the Real Damage** — Probing runs beneath the paint, through the joints, out along the sill horns — decay always reaches farther than the soft spot you can see. - **Price by the Piece, in Writing** — Each piece gets its own written line — window wood at $375+, door frames at $475+, door sash at $575+ — before any saw starts. - **Mill the Duplicate** — Laminated lumber gets milled into a true copy of the doomed piece's shape — never a generic board forced to fit. - **Splice, Finish & Warranty** — Joints faired invisible, then primer, paint and watertight sealing — the whole rebuild carried by a 5-year written workmanship warranty. ## How Much Does Rotten Wood Repair Cost in Katy? In Katy, rot work prices per piece off the printed catalog — the numbers reach paper before anything reaches the saw: - **Sill or sash** — rebuilt in real lumber from $375 - **Door frame wood** — from $475 · **door sash** — from $575 - **Porch profiles, trim and brickmould** — priced at assessment - **For scale** — a new wood window runs ~$2,000 installed ## Why Katy 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 Katy — FAQ **Q: Only the sills nearest the flower beds are going soft. Why those?** A: Look at your irrigation coverage. Heads tucked into beds along the foundation routinely throw mist onto the bottom foot of the wall — the same sill, the same casing, every scheduled morning — and Gulf humidity keeps the wood from drying between cycles. That's a rot farm. We rebuild the damaged pieces in real wood from $375, and part of the assessment is flagging exactly which heads need re-aiming so the new wood doesn't inherit the old shower. **Q: The house is a 2004 build. Isn't twenty years too soon for rotted trim?** A: Not for the trim most 2000s builders installed. A lot of it is finger-jointed stock that received one coat of factory primer and went in with raw end grain drinking water from day one — a material choice made on price, not longevity. Katy's irrigation plus humidity simply collects on that decision early. The rebuild uses laminated lumber that resists moisture by construction, which is why the repair outlasts what the builder originally put in. **Q: A handyman quoted a third of your price to epoxy the soft spots. What's the catch?** A: The catch is that epoxy over active rot is a cosmetic, not a cure. The decay keeps consuming the wood beneath the patch, and in this climate it pushes back through the paint within a year or two — at which point you pay again, for more damage. Our rule has no exceptions: soft wood is cut out to a clean sound boundary and a fabricated real-wood piece is spliced in. That method is the only reason we can back rot work with five years of written warranty. **Q: Will the repaired sill match our HOA-approved exterior?** A: Exactly — that's the point of profile-matched fabrication. The replacement piece is milled to copy the original's shape, spliced in with clean joints, then primed and painted to the existing scheme. Once the paint cures, there is no visible line between old wood and new, and from the street the elevation is precisely what the architectural guidelines expect. Replacement windows and mismatched trim are what create HOA letters; an invisible repair never does. **Q: Do you take on door frames and thresholds, or just window wood?** A: Every wooden part of an opening: sills, sashes and jambs at $375 and up, door frames, thresholds and brickmould at $475 and up, door sashes at $575 and up. A single walk-through catalogs each soft piece on the property onto one written sheet, and most Katy visits bundle several rebuilds into the same scheduled stop — one trip charge covering the lot. **Q: How fast can this get scheduled, truthfully?** A: Truthfully: Katy rides the scheduled west-Houston routes, and booking comes with a firm calendar date instead of a hopeful guess. Rot that took seasons to develop won't collapse the wall next week — but don't carry it through another storm season either, because every additional wet month widens the boundary of what has to be cut out, and the quote grows with it. ## Serving Katy & the West Houston Metro We rebuild rotted wood across the Katy master-plans — irrigated sills in Cinco Ranch and Grand Lakes, the maturing trim of Kelliwood and Nottingham Country, the frame houses of Old Katy near downtown — on scheduled service routes with firm dates. 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