# Rotten Wood Repair in Roswell, GA

> A soft sill or crumbling sash is not a demolition notice. **We remove every trace of decay, mill a matching piece in real wood, and splice it in seamlessly — from $375.** No filler troweled over rot, ever.

**From $375 · 4.9 · 473+ reviews**

## Roswell Has Been Fighting Wood Rot Since 1839 — Your House Just Joined the War

This town was built by a mill on Vickery Creek, and the wood around Canton Street and the old mill village has been trading punches with Georgia weather for over a century — hand-milled sills and sashes in profiles no lumberyard has stocked in generations. Down toward the Chattahoochee, the '70s and '80s subdivisions fight a different battle: factory-primed builder trim installed with raw end grain, kept permanently damp by sprinkler arcs and the deep shade of a mature canopy that never lets a north wall dry. Fifty-plus inches of annual rain feeds both fronts. The wood is different; the biology is identical — moisture finds an unsealed seam and digests inward until someone cuts it out.
- Paint lifting or blistering along the sill nose
- A thumbnail that sinks in — that wood is already lost
- Shaded, river-facing and north-side wood decays first
- Sprinkler spray: the rot homeowners water twice a week

## Preservation-Grade Carpentry: Cut It Out, Mill It Back, Make It Vanish

A tub of wood filler smeared over soft wood is decoration on top of decay — the fungus keeps chewing underneath and the 'repair' pops within a year. Our bench works the way a mill town's should: probe until we hit honestly sound wood, saw the rot out with clean square shoulders, then mill a replacement piece from laminated lumber that reproduces the original profile — every ogee, bevel and drip kerf — and splice it in until primer and paint erase the seam. On a Canton Street sill that means the house keeps its 19th-century face. On a Martins Landing brickmould run it means wood measurably better than what the builder nailed up in 1978. Either way, the water source gets named and fixed too.
- Sills and sashes on windows — rebuilt from $375
- Door frames, brickmould and thresholds — from $475
- Laminated lumber: moisture-resistant by its very construction
- Root cause corrected — drip edges, caulk lines, sprinkler aim

## How Rotten Wood Repair Works in Roswell

Probe, quote, mill, splice — honest carpentry that keeps good houses off the replacement treadmill.
- **Probe the True Boundary** — We chase the decay to its honest edge — under paint film, into joinery, along sill horns — so the quote covers reality, not the visible tip.
- **Price Every Piece in Writing** — Window wood from $375, door wood from $475 — itemized line by line on a written quote before a single cut is made.
- **Mill & Splice** — The replacement is milled from laminated lumber to duplicate the original profile, then spliced in with tight, clean joinery until the repair reads as original.
- **Seal, Paint & Warranty** — Sanded fair, primed, painted and sealed against the weather — with a written 5-year workmanship warranty behind it.

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

Rot repair in Roswell is billed by the piece from the same printed catalog we carry into every metro — with the numbers on paper before any saw touches your house:
- **Window sill or sash** — rebuilt in real wood from $375
- **Door frame wood** — from $475 · **door sashes** — from $575
- **Porch and trim profiles** — quoted at the assessment
- **For scale** — a brand-new wood window lands near $2,000 installed

## Why Roswell 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 Roswell — FAQ

**Q: Our home is in the historic district near Canton Street. Can the original profiles really be reproduced?**

A: Reproducing them is the whole discipline. We take the surviving profile — the ogees, the bevels, the drip kerf under the sill nose — and mill the replacement piece to duplicate it exactly, then splice it in so the seam vanishes under primer and paint. Roswell's 19th-century millwork is better wood, better shaped, than anything on a store shelf today; a house from the mill era should keep its face, and this repair lets it.

**Q: Why is the trim on our '70s Martins Landing house rotting when older houses nearby are fine?**

A: Because era beats age. Much of the subdivision trim from the '70s and '80s is finger-jointed stock that got one coat of factory primer and was installed with bare end grain wicking water from day one — while the old-growth wood downtown is denser and was maintained with real paint films for a century. We rebuild the failed runs in laminated lumber that resists moisture structurally, from $375 per window piece.

**Q: A handyman quoted us a filler-and-paint patch for half the price. What's the catch?**

A: The catch arrives in about a year. Filler bonded over active rot is a cosmetic lid on a live infection — the decay keeps consuming the wood beneath it until the patch lifts and the hole is bigger than before. Our standard is non-negotiable: every fiber of rot gets cut out to sound wood, and real milled wood gets spliced into the gap. Consolidants have a place only on tiny, early, honestly-probed spots.

**Q: All our rot is on the shaded, river-facing side of the house. Why there?**

A: Because that side never dries. Between the Chattahoochee's ambient moisture and Roswell's dense canopy, a shaded north or river-facing wall can stay damp for days after a storm — and damp time is all rot fungus needs. We rebuild the wood, but the assessment also identifies the moisture path — a failed drip edge, an open caulk joint, a sprinkler head aimed at the trim — so the same wall doesn't rot twice.

**Q: Do you handle door frames and thresholds too, or just windows?**

A: Everything wooden around your openings: sills, sashes, jambs, brickmould, casings, thresholds and full door frames. Window wood rebuilds from $375, door frame wood from $475, door sashes from $575 — all probed in one assessment and itemized on one written sheet, so nothing soft gets missed and nothing sound gets sold to you.

**Q: The sill is completely gone. Wouldn't a new window just be simpler?**

A: Simpler for the salesman. A sill rebuilt in real wood runs from $375; a comparable new wood window is roughly $2,000 installed — and on an older Roswell street it swaps irreplaceable millwork for a catalog product. In the rare case a frame is truly beyond saving, we write both numbers on the same sheet and hand you the pen; the decision never leaves your hands.

## Serving Roswell & Metro Atlanta

We rebuild rotted wood across Roswell — the historic profiles of Canton Street and the mill village, the builder trim of the river-corridor subdivisions — and throughout the metro on scheduled routes.

In Roswell: Canton Street, Mill Village, Martins Landing, Horseshoe Bend, Willow Springs, Brookfield, Crabapple, East Roswell
Also in Roswell: Foggy Windows — Roswell, Window Repair — Roswell, Glass Repair — Roswell, Atlanta Metro Hub, WowFix in Georgia

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