Gulf South wood siding with rot replaced and sealed by Rhino Shield

Wood Rot Repair & Replacement in the Gulf South | Paint + Protection.

Painted over rot invites termites and structural failure. Protect Your Home. Shield Your Family.

Wood on a Gulf South home gets wet through failed caulk, cracked paint, and long humid summers. Wet wood rots from the inside. The rot spreads quietly behind your trim, fascia, and siding. Soft, wet wood is also exactly what termites and other wood destroying insects hunt for. By the time you can see damage on the surface, the wood behind it is usually worse.

The problem

Most contractors patch instead of replace.

Most painters and handymen handle rot the same way. They cut out the worst spot, patch in a small piece, and paint over it. That fixes what shows. It leaves the rest of the damaged wood in place. Paint does not stick to rotten wood, so the patch fails fast. And the rot keeps spreading under the fresh paint that hides it.

When my crew finds rot, we do not patch it. We replace it. We pull the whole damaged section out, down to sound wood, not a small square around the worst spot, before any coating goes on. Coating over rot just buries the problem. We do not do that. Once the wood is sound, the same Climate Proof Ceramic Coating that protects the rest of your home seals the new wood against the moisture that caused the rot in the first place. If the water was getting in through failed joints instead of bare wood, we reseal the seams and openings that let it through as part of the repair. Replacing bad wood before we coat is simply how the job gets done right. The coating over it carries the 25 year transferable manufacturer's warranty.

What you actually get

Home health, family health, and equity.

One system defends the three things that matter most about your home.

Home health: woman opening her window in a protected home

Your home stays healthy

Sound wood behind the coating means nothing is quietly rotting or feeding termites while the outside looks fine.

Your family is protected

Rot and termite damage are structural problems, not paint problems. Replacing bad wood early keeps your home solid for the people living in it.

Home equity protected by a transferable warranty

Your equity is protected

Rot never fixes itself. It spreads, and the price climbs the longer it sits. Catch it early and the repair stays small. The work goes into your written scope, and the coating that seals the new wood carries the 25 year transferable manufacturer's warranty. At closing, that reads as a cared for home, not a hidden problem.

How the diagnosis works

I don't give estimates. I give diagnoses.

Kevin Mmahat, Exterior Home Protection Consultant

Book your free Home Protection Consultation and I come out myself. I do not give estimates. I give diagnoses. I walk every wall and press on the wood at trim, fascia, sills, and anywhere paint has already failed. If I find rot, I tell you how far it really goes, not just what shows. We replace every damaged section down to sound wood before any coating starts. You get an exact written number before a single thing begins.

Real Gulf Coast homes

A job like yours.

Replace, not patch, in the wild.

Mandeville Cedar Siding

Mandeville, LA

Problem: South-facing courses rotting, peeling stain, deep moisture absorption.
Protocol: Rotted boards replaced, breathable ceramic coat that lets wood vent.
Outcome: No more annual restaining, wood stabilized, equity protected.

Wood Rot Questions

Your questions, answered.

The questions homeowners ask before they book.

We replace it. My crew removes the damaged section down to sound wood, not just the worst spot, and installs new wood before we coat.

Paint does not hold on rotten wood, and rot that is not fully removed keeps spreading behind the new paint. A patch hides the problem instead of ending it. Sooner or later the rot comes back, along with a bill for the spot you thought was fixed.

Nationally, wood rot repair typically runs $500 to $3,000, around $1,400 on average, and up to $10,000 when damage has spread. That range is the whole argument for catching it early. Rot never gets cheaper by waiting. Your exact number comes from the diagnosis, in writing, before any work begins.

The 25 year transferable manufacturer's warranty covers the coating itself against cracking, chipping, and peeling, including the coating over every section of wood we replace. The replacement work itself goes into your written scope before the job begins.

I press on the wood by hand at every spot where paint has failed or water has been getting in. Rot travels along the grain, often further than it looks from the outside, so I check past the visible damage before we scope the repair.

Removing rotten, water softened wood removes what termites and other wood destroying insects come looking for. It does not replace a pest control inspection, but it takes away one of the things that invites them in.

New wood sealed under the coating is protected from the moisture that caused the rot in the first place, and the coating is warrantied by the manufacturer for 25 years. The warranty transfers if you sell.

Gulf South wood, protected

Wood rot repair, city by city.

From older wood siding, trim, and fascia in New Orleans and the Garden District, to homes across Baton Rouge and the Capital Region, to Gulf Coast homes carrying decades of humidity and storms, we replace the wood this weather has already damaged, and protect the wood that is still sound.

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