Had a problem last year with my Therma-Tru stile caused by a Golden Pup I was babysitting 2 years ago using it as a chew toy in November. Applied Exterior stain the first time temperature allowed, but it must have been soaked inside or the Carpenter ant colony I killed last summer had already done the damage. Took my knife to it last August and the blade went in 3/4's of what you see here and the whole chunk just Popped out. Not loadbearing because of the 12" gluelam above.
I had ripped an Eastern White Cedar timber in half and cut to length and a Dado marked out and router bit bought and was going to spend a day chiseling to solid wood, making cedar replacement and epoxying it in, and then sistering the full length cedar.
BUT!!! This Little Blue Machine arrived .....and next thing I knew we had snow on the ground
About 25% worse now, and the couple dry days I remembered to slap some exterior stain on it probably just trapped the moisture in the punk.
And a health issue right now is preventing me from doing the Full job on it right now(with new Z upgrade was going to tile some vertical flutes in the cedar and a motif up top where it's directly under the overhang.
BUT, Now just want to stop rot from going any further, and possibly build the whole thing up.
Seem to remember FineHomebuilding having something like this in their ads, and getting lost in the Google searches because I've never done anything quite like this.
Anybody have a product they have used in the past and LIKED? Nights are getting into the 40's here and need to do something Quick!
The stuff isn't even Real Wood! Something like an MDF/OSB? in consistency.
Thanks,
scott