LiquidWood

Have you drop cloth ready! I got this to repair my rotted fascia boards, window sills and trim where water infiltrated and rotted the wood in and around the end grain. It appears to be doing a fantastic job at penetrating, waterproofing and solidifying the wood where the rot was. I also got the WoodEpox to go with this repair but that's another review, so yes I like it but we all know that time has the final say on how good this stuff really is. The advertisement states that repairs made with this system won't shrink. The question in my mind is that if wood moves (expands and contracts), how will the moving wood and the non moving epoxy repair interact with each other and will cracks form as a result. Seems like a solid enough product but I'll update accordingly anyway.

Great product, and great customer service. post office must have dropped an anvil on the box, because they managed to puncture the resin container. They actually tried to rebox the oozing (smh). Amazon and supplier fixed the problem, and when it arrived in perfect condition was very happy The mix ratio suggested for my use was 1:1:1 part a, part b, and xylene. This have copious coverage for the ply floor, with an increased dry time. Amazing finish, and hard as nails.

I've heard very good things about this. Used it on rotted timbers. Takes a long time to harden/dry. Longer than most epoxies. On this coats, still tacky after 36 hours.

I have a 100+ year old home that has wood siding and many decorative wood pieces that were not maintained before I bought the house. The worst part of the house is a large gable decoration in the shape of a cross made of 6" x 6" beams. The wood was just starting to lose paint when I bought the house, and after a few winter the paint was completely gone. Carpenter bees moved into the fresh wood and turned the beams into hollowed out shells. The bees continued to attack the wood for years despite my best efforts to control them. I finally set up scaffolding to reach the top and was able to control the bees for good. However, to my dismay it appeared the gable decoration was a total loss. I thought about taking it down and replacing it but I would have to get some exotic wood or it would be sure to fail in no time. I found out about this product from a friend, although I was skeptical, I decided to give it a try. I took a drill bit through the carpenter bee holes in the bottom of the beam and drilled completely through the top. Then, I plugged the holes at the bottom with Abatron epoxy wood filler. After that, I poured the LiquidWood epoxy into the holes at the top of the beam to completely fill the voids created by the carpenter bees. The next day, I was amazed at how the beam went from being something that could be ripped apart by bare hands to a like-new beam. The top of the beam had a lot of completely rotten spots that had caved in to the carpenter bee chambers so I solidified them with LiquidWood and filled the rest of the way with the epoxy wood filler. I have found that the epoxy wood filler does not crack out like the polyester wood fillers that I used to use. This stuff saved me thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of labor. I just bought the two-gallon kit to fix up the other gable decoration on the front of my house that is in much worse shape. This product has exceeded my expectations and gave me a whole new outlook on my home restoration process.

I followed the directions exactly - precise measuring of both parts, stirring for the time required, letting it sit for 10 to 15 minutes before applying it. Well, it hardly soaks into the wood unless the wood is seriously deterioriated, and even then it does not seem to soak in that far. The only place it seemed to soak in for more than a tiny amount was on the end of the lumber where just about anything will soak in. Then, despite waiing an entire week the surface remained sticky. I had to sand it off, and that took 40 grit sandpaper to do. I had previously used Restor-it and thought I'd try something new since with a 100+ year old wodden house, I'm always finding areas of wood needing a product like this. I am going back to Restor-it. You can be off a little in measuring Restor-it, you don't have to mix it for a specific amount of time, and you don't have to sit around waiting to use it so as to purportedly prevent it from having a sticky surface. The consistency is also thinner, which is probably why you can see the wood absorbing it quickly, and why it goes deeper into the wood. Looking at a cross-section of wood I could see how it absorbed much more deeply into the wood. My neighbor, who is a contractor, said he has used Restor-it for a very long time and that areas of rotten wooden window sills he treated with Restor-it are just as good now as when he did them 20 years ago. I wish I had listened to him and not tried this product as it is useless for me.

We use Abatron frequently to correct rotted wood issues on our circa 1900 home. This year, we stripped the lead-based paint from the garage, and "painted" the siding with Liquid-Wood to correct rotted wood, and to permit the new paint to stick better to old wood. You'll want to play with cure-times - especially in colder weather, and in thinner coats. But this stuff is wonderful on rotted wood - especially if the wood can't be easily replaced.

I've been restoring a 170 year old house for 25 years, and will ALWAYS try and save original architectural elements rather than replace with new, whenever it is remotely possible. That said, I have gone through a LOT of wood stabilizer/restorers - restoring 28 windows, all the exterior soffit and facia, sills, floors, doors, porches, stairs, beams, you name it. The Abatron product was one of the first ones I tried. But it is also more expensive, so I did try other products, thinking I might get equivalent results. BIG mistake. There is no comparison, especially when you are working on elements outside the home. Exterior sills that I used Abatron on 25 years ago are just as solid, without cracks etc. as when I first restored them. Exterior sills where I used other wood hardener/stabilizers have awful issues, with cracking being one of the worst. So it was apparent that spending the extra money is definitely worth it in the long term. Additionally, if I don't want to use massive quantities of the Abatron WoodEpox putty to build up large areas of missing wood, I have found that the LiquidWood mixed with sawdust does a fantastic job. While the product can be used year round, don't expect fast results in cold weather. The hotter it is the better, unless you have a method to heat what you are working on. I'll be buying this for awhile yet - have to start on 28 pairs of shutters next!

This is an excellent product for many demanding wood repair/restoration projects. I've found that it can take a bit of experimenting to get it to behave like I need it to in some non-typical applications but by carefully following the instructions and paying attention to results it gives excellent results. Attached photos show a door restoration project I did. It started out looking pretty hopeless but came out amazing in the end!