# Rotten Wood Repair in Marietta, GA

> Soft sills and crumbling sashes don't mean new windows. **We cut the rot out completely, fabricate an exact copy of the piece in real wood, and splice it in — from $375.** No filler, no foam, no painting over decay.

**From $375 · 4.9 · 473+ reviews**

## Marietta Rot Has Two Favorite Victims — and Your House Is One of Them

Metro Atlanta takes roughly fifty inches of rain a year, and the humidity between storms never lets the wood truly dry. That climate feeds on two kinds of Marietta houses. Around the Square and Whitlock, century-old sills and sashes carry profiles nobody mills anymore — beautiful wood that soaks at every failed paint line. Out in the '80s and '90s East Cobb subdivisions it's the opposite problem: finger-jointed builder trim that was primed once at the factory and never stood a chance under a Georgia sprinkler system. Different wood, same physics — water finds a seam, shade keeps it wet, and the rot works inward season by season.
- Paint bubbling or flaking at the sill's front edge
- Wood that dents under a thumbnail — already past saving
- North walls and shaded corners under mature pines rot first
- Sprinkler overspray: the self-inflicted rot nobody suspects

## Filler Over Rot Is the Handyman Lie — We Cut It Out and Rebuild

The cheap fix you'll be offered is a trowel of wood filler over the soft spot and a coat of paint over the filler. It fails within a year, because the decay keeps eating underneath. Our repair is carpentry, not cosmetics: we probe to the honest boundary of sound wood, cut the rot out with clean square edges, fabricate a replacement piece from laminated lumber milled to the original profile — ogees, bevels, drip kerfs and all — and splice it in until the seam disappears under primer and paint. The historic houses keep their faces. The subdivision trim comes back stronger than the builder ever made it.
- Window sills and sashes — rebuilt from $375
- Door frames, thresholds and brickmould — from $475
- Laminated lumber: moisture-resistant by construction
- Water source fixed too — drip edges, caulk lines, paint film

## How Rotten Wood Repair Works in Marietta

Probe, price, fabricate, splice — the sequence that keeps good houses out of the replacement funnel.
- **Probe to Sound Wood** — We map the honest boundary of the decay — behind paint, into joints, along the sill horns — before promising anything.
- **Written Price by Piece** — Window wood from $375, door wood from $475 — each piece on its own line of the written quote before the saw comes out.
- **Fabricate & Splice** — The replacement piece is milled from laminated lumber to the original profile, spliced in with clean joints, and fitted until the seam vanishes.
- **Finish & Warranty** — Sanded, primed, painted, sealed watertight — and backed by a 5-year written workmanship warranty.

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

Rot repair in Marietta is priced by the piece, from the same printed catalog we use in every metro — in writing before any cutting:
- **Window sash or sill** — rebuilt in real wood from $375
- **Door frame wood** — from $475 · **door sash** — from $575
- **Trim and porch profiles** — quoted per assessment
- **For scale** — a new wood window runs ~$2,000 installed

## Why Marietta 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 Marietta — FAQ

**Q: The house is 1920s, near the Square. Can you match the original sill profile?**

A: That's the entire craft: the replacement piece is milled to copy the original — ogees, bevels, drip kerfs — then spliced in and finished until the repair disappears under paint. Older Marietta wood usually deserves saving; the profiles are better than anything in a big-box aisle, and matching them is exactly what our bench does.

**Q: My '90s East Cobb trim is rotting after 30 years. Why so fast?**

A: Because much of the builder trim of that era is finger-jointed stock that was primed once at the factory and installed with its end grain drinking water from day one. Georgia rain and sprinklers finish the job. We rebuild those runs in laminated lumber that resists moisture by construction — stronger than what the builder installed, at catalog prices from $375.

**Q: Can I just have someone fill it and paint over?**

A: You can, and it fails within a year — filler over active rot is cosmetics over decay; the soft wood keeps eating underneath the paint. Our rule is absolute: decay gets cut out to sound wood with clean edges, and real wood gets spliced in. Small, early, honestly-probed spots are the only place consolidants belong.

**Q: The rot is always on the shady side of the house. Coincidence?**

A: Physics. North walls and corners under Marietta's mature pines and oaks dry slowest after each storm, so the wood there stays damp long enough for rot to work. The rebuild fixes the wood; the assessment also names the water source — failed drip edge, tired caulk, sprinkler overspray — so the same corner doesn't call us back.

**Q: Windows and doors both?**

A: Both, plus the wood around them: sills, sashes, jambs, brickmould, thresholds and door frames. Window wood from $375, door wood from $475 — one assessment, one written sheet for everything soft.

**Q: Is it cheaper to just replace the window if the sill is gone?**

A: Rarely. A sill rebuild runs from $375; a comparable new wood window runs around $2,000 installed — and on a historic street it also costs the house its face. When a frame genuinely is past saving, we put both numbers on the same written sheet and the decision stays yours.

## Serving Marietta & Metro Atlanta

We rebuild rotted wood across Marietta — the historic profiles around the Square and Whitlock, the builder trim of East Cobb — and throughout the metro on scheduled routes.

In Marietta: Marietta Square, Whitlock, East Cobb, Indian Hills, Sope Creek, Fair Oaks, Powers Ferry, Mountain View
Also in Marietta: Foggy Windows — Marietta, Window Repair — Marietta, Glass Repair — Marietta, Atlanta Metro Hub, WowFix in Georgia

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