{"id":13861,"date":"2020-04-29T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=13861"},"modified":"2020-04-28T15:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T22:03:27","slug":"j-b-wood-restore-premium-epoxy-putty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/j-b-wood-restore-premium-epoxy-putty\/","title":{"rendered":"J-B Wood Restore Premium Epoxy Putty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently used this product to repair a substantial amount of wood rot around our home. In reality, the best way to deal with wood rot is to replace the wood with new material. J-B Wood Restore comes into play when the wood rot that you find will be A) Structurally insignificant or B) a MAJOR pain that you want to delay for a period of time until you can deal with it by replacing material. The trick is knowing when you stop chasing rot and go with the replacement.<\/p>\n<p>The half dozen or so places I needed to address were sized from a quarter to the size of a baseball. I used a Dremel tool with a high speed cutter to get into the spots and remove all the rotted wood. Then I applied a wood hardener (and not included with the kit) to seal the wood against further rot. The epoxy putty is a two part compound that you mix together in a 1:1 ratio. It&#8217;s pretty easy to mix together, but it helps to add a bit of water. After around 20 minutes, it cures up incredibly hard, yet can be worked with regular woodworking tools. With a wood chisel and a bit of 50 grit sandpaper you can make it as smooth as the surrounding woodwork. A bit of primer and paint, and it was like new.<\/p>\n<p>There are quite a few other products in this class of items, but they either require special applicator guns or are insanely expensive. With what I needed to do, I really couldn&#8217;t justify spending hundreds of dollars on the stuff that the pros use. Especially when, with wood rot, you&#8217;re just kicking the can down the street for a while until you&#8217;re ready to replace material.<\/p>\n<p>(This is the same product as Elmer&#8217;s Structural Wood Repair &#8212; I&#8217;m not sure who is the original manufacturer of the stuff.)<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy way to deal with wood rot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35996,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions\/35996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}