Wood Column Repair

This is a "how to" video showing a repair of a porch column in a 1920s home. The video takes you from start to finish and comments on why Abatron's Wood Epox and Liquid Wood was chosen for the job. Please take a look at my follow up video on my channel to see how the job holds up in the Florida weather (Channel is Randy Coppola)

[frankwyatt]

great job for a couple of neophytes. the sheet metal at the inside was smart. thank you.

[beckythebarber]

My home was built in 1900. This gives me an idea of what to do with my columns now.

[TheFoldMusic]

wow, I was deinitely hesitant when I saw the initial damage. Absolutely astonishing after!

[Olivia]

Great video! I just used it on two rotted out window sills on 1906 house. Now working on large fluted column on front porch. Interesting that you used that metal tube. Brilliant! I have cut 3/4 inch treated tongue and groove left over boards for our porch to a length of about 2 feet and then reaching inside I screw in from outside and countersink. This hopefully will then give good strength so I can remove ancient failed patches of plaster. The rolling pin has me thinking... it could really help me in trying to shape the flutes!!! Thanks for the video!!! Abatron is a great product.

[jmoney]

Great video! Thank you for taking the time to create a well made example for us to learn by.

[Trefzger]

Thanks for taking your time to share how to do this. We're renovating/restoring a 1928. I would like to see a video of how you restored your original floors.

[shadowmoney]

I really like this video saved me a lot of time after watching other videos. I would really like to see the other video

[kristincollins]

Thank you!! I have 6 columns on my front porch with 3 of them completely rotted at the bottom..

[JD-bjvf]

Great video, thank you for sharing your expertise and knowledge for this type repair.  I have been researching for months to try and find a solution to 1 of my wood columns rotting at the bottom.  Not sure if I am capable of making the repair, however worth a shot to try and salvage.

[Jack-bor]

I would not use this for anything load baring

[stitchfan]

Randy, finally someone who knows what they are doing. I have 4 22' high wood columns wiht one of them that is really bad. Are you by chance in Toronto that you could come out to look at my home?

[rollandelliott]

stronger way to fix this is to go to local telephone pole place and find pole same diameter as your front porch, then just cut to length and replace the entire collumn or just the bottom section.
at a bare minimum one should stick a 4x4 of treated wood in the center of the pole and use structural screws to strengthen the connection. If pole is not painted regularly the epoxy will eventually crack after many years and then you loose structural integrity

[randycoppola]

Hi and thank you for watching the video. We had more than one column in similar condition and they looked much better going in but once we started removing the rotted wood we had a similar one to the one in the video. In one case we had to gouge out some of the work it was about a 2-inch by 2-inch area and redo it but not on the column in the video. The repair that we made is been over a year and that one has been holding well so do the best you can to get as much rotted wood as you can off just keep making sure that you don't lose structural integrity and take too much! Again thank you for watching

[ASMRMuzz]

Amazing video thank you, we have water intrusion on the wooden sill atop a concrete foundation for our sunroom. I assume this product will work for that, since it says it strengthens the wood. Also, will the rot continue to spread if you miss some? obviously I'd try to get it all cut out but if I did miss a patch would the the rot keep going? I've been curious about this for a while. Thanks.

[framcesmoore]

this was great I just bought a 1890 house the porch has rotten boards as well and the box gutters leak does your house have them and if it does did they leak as well and how did u fix them thanks this was great

[tonyb]

Neat job BUT will it take the weight of the porch roof in unconfined compression?

[Otterbandana]

Wondering how to determine how much product to buy. Was there a measure (e.g.: for X-size hole, it will take X-ounces...)?

[jjf]

I'd like to see the video on how you repaired your upstairs floor. Thanks for this video.

[ljmyres]

I would love to see the video on how you restored a wood floor with this product. We live in a home that is 104 years old and are restoring it as well

[fenggangpeng]

This method is ok for the load bearing columns (half base is rotten)?