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Weathered exterior trim and siding showing wear before repair and repainting in Mebane, NC

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Wood Rot Repair and Trim Carpentry in Mebane, NC

Soft sills, crumbling door frames or rotting fascia? We cut out the rot, rebuild the trim and paint it to match.

Rot probed before pricing
Repairs primed and painted to match
Written quote the day Jose visits

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Why Soft, Rotted Trim Gets Worse Every Rain

Wood rot moves slowly, which is exactly why it gets ignored. Rot fungus needs wood that stays damp, so it settles wherever water sits: sill corners, the bottoms of door frames, fascia behind a gutter that spills over. The paint on top bubbles and cracks, and each rain gets a little further in. Left alone, rot spreads along the board and can reach the sheathing and framing behind it. That turns a trim repair into a wall repair. Pressing putty over a soft spot that's still wet and painting over it hides the damage without drying it out, so the rot keeps working underneath.

Warning signs

Paint bubbling or peeling on a sill or door frame
Wood that gives when you press a screwdriver in
Dark staining or gaps opening at trim joints
Fascia sagging or crumbling behind a gutter
A door jamb turning soft or splintered at the bottom
Fungus growing along the edge of trim or siding

What's Included

What Our Wood Rot Repair Includes

At Roca's, wood rot repair is light exterior carpentry: taking out wood that has gone soft and putting back trim that can hold paint again. The usual trouble spots are window sills and casings, door frames and the molding around them, fascia boards, corner boards and garage door trim. Carpentry and rot repair already runs through our exterior painting work, and it's also available as its own job for homeowners around Mebane who aren't repainting the whole house. Jose looks at every soft spot himself, and the quote lists each repair on its own line.

Finding Where the Rot Stops

Rot is almost always bigger than the stain on the paint. At the estimate, Jose presses and probes the wood around each soft area to find where sound wood begins, and checks the boards beside it. He also looks for what let the water in. Cracked caulk, a gutter spilling onto the fascia, a flat sill that holds rain, or a door frame catching splash-back from the stoop are the usual culprits. A repair that leaves the water source alone just rots again.

Repair or Replace

Not every soft spot needs new wood. Shallow, contained rot can be dug out, hardened with a wood consolidant and rebuilt with an epoxy filler shaped to the original profile. Deeper rot, or rot running along a board, is cut back to solid wood and replaced with a new section. New pieces are cut to match the existing profile, so a replaced sill end or corner board lines up with the old trim. If the damage reaches sheathing or framing, the crew stops and shows you before anything more is done.

Sealed and Painted to Match

New wood is primed on every face before it's fastened, including the cut ends, which soak up water fastest. Nail holes are filled, joints are caulked, and the repaired trim is painted in your house color. Since Roca's is a painting company, there's no bare wood left waiting for a second contractor.

After the Repair

You walk each repair with the crew before they leave, and the rotted wood and offcuts go with them. If Jose spotted a water source outside our scope, such as roof flashing, he tells you so it gets fixed before it undoes the work. Ask Jose how carpentry is covered under our 1-year warranty, since the published terms were written around painting and staining work. Photos of finished repairs are below.

Before and After: Wood Rot Repair

Client project photos are shown below.

Faded and weathered exterior siding and trim before repair and repainting — Before: weathered trim and siding, the kind of surface where rot often hides.

The same home after exterior repair, priming, and a full repaint — After: sound wood, primed and repainted top to bottom.

Deck railing sanded and refinished after wood repair — Railings and boards repaired and refinished before staining.

Porch floor boards painted after repair and preparation — Porch flooring prepped and painted after any damaged boards were addressed.

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Priced Past the Stain

Jose probes around each soft spot to find where solid wood starts. The quote covers the real damage instead of the patch of peeling paint you can see from the yard.

The Cause Gets Named

Every repair comes with an answer to why that board rotted, whether it was cracked caulk, an overflowing gutter or splash-back. New wood with the same water on it won't last.

Primed Before It Goes Up

Replacement trim is primed on all sides, cut ends included, before it's fastened. Bare end grain drinks water, and it's where new wood starts to rot first.

Painted by the Same Company

The crew that rebuilds your trim can paint it in the house color, so a repair on the front porch doesn't sit bare or turn into a mismatched patch.

Hidden Damage Shown First

If rot runs into sheathing or framing, you see it before any added work starts. Nothing past the approved repair list happens without your go-ahead.

Our Process

How Our Wood Rot Repair Works

Probe and Mark

Every soft spot gets probed, and Jose marks where the rot ends and notes the water source. Your itemized quote arrives the same day he visits.

Cut Back to Solid Wood

The crew removes rotted material until it hits sound wood, and stops to show you if damage continues into sheathing or framing.

Rebuild or Replace

Shallow damage is hardened and filled with epoxy. Deeper rot gets a new section cut to your trim profile and primed on every side.

Caulk, Paint, Walk Through

Joints are caulked and repairs are painted in your house color. Then you check each repaired spot with the crew before sign-off.

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Pricing

How Much Does Wood Rot Repair Cost in Mebane?

Wood rot repair is priced on the time your repairs will take, not by the foot. One soft sill corner and a run of rotted fascia across the back of the house are very different jobs, even if both look small from the ground. Jose quotes after probing the damage. What changes the number:

Your quote lists each repair and covers removing the rotted wood, new material, priming, caulking and painting the repaired areas. Fixing the cause is a separate line: gutter work we can quote, while roof and flashing problems go to a roofer. If more rot turns up once old wood comes off, you approve that work before it's done. The price you accept is the price you pay for the approved list.

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What changes the price

How many spots need work, and how far each has spread
Epoxy repair versus replacing a full section
Trim profile, since detailed molding takes longer to match
Height, such as fascia at a second-story roofline
Damage that continues into sheathing or framing

Quoted separately

Structural or framing repair, referred to a qualified contractor
Full siding replacement beyond small damaged sections, quoted separately
Pest or termite treatment, referred to a licensed provider if active infestation is found

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Where We Serve

From our home base on Giles Street in Mebane, we bring family-owned quality to homes across Alamance and Orange counties and out to Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh.

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Wood rot repair time depends on how many spots need work and how deep the rot goes. A single sill or door frame end is a far shorter job than fascia along a whole side of the house, and primer and caulk need to dry before paint. Jose gives you an expected timeline with the quote.

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Why Soft, Rotted Trim Gets Worse Every Rain