All Around Texas Roofing repairs exterior trim and carpentry across Frisco, McKinney, Prosper, Celina, Anna, Melissa, Aubrey and the surrounding Collin and Denton County communities. Rake boards, frieze, corner boards, column wraps, window and door casings, decorative brackets and garage door trim.
Most people calling about this describe it as “the wood bit above the garage”, which is entirely reasonable. What matters is that the rotten wood is a symptom, and finding what made it wet is the actual job.
Call (469) 598-0899 and we will look for the water before we price the wood.
Trim sits at the edges and the corners, which is exactly where wind load concentrates. Rake boards get peeled by uplift running up a gable edge. Corner boards pull loose at the fixings. Decorative brackets come off entirely. Hail dents aluminum wrapped trim and gouges wood.
It is also one of the most commonly omitted items on a storm claim, for the same reason as soffit and fascia: nobody was looking at it. It reads as maintenance rather than as an event, and each piece is small enough individually to be waved off even when there are a dozen around the house.
We photograph trim on every storm inspection, on all four elevations, and it goes into the scope with everything else. See insurance claim assistance.
The source gets named in the quote, or nobody looked.
not to the edge of what is visible.
If sheathing is wet, it does not get covered over.
which is usually a flashing, gutter, caulk or ground contact problem.
for that location, which is not always like for like.
then paint.
This is the argument of the page, and it is what separates a repair that lasts from one you pay for twice.
Wood does not rot because it is old. It rots because it is wet, repeatedly, for long enough. So when we find rotten trim, the first question is not what it costs to replace. It is where the water is coming from.
The usual answers, in rough order of how often we find them:
A gutter problem, sending water down a wall it was never meant to run down. A flashing problem, missing, reused or incorrectly lapped at a roof to wall junction, above a window, or at a rake. Ground contact, where trim ends at a patio slab or a flower bed and wicks moisture up. Unsealed end grain, because wood absorbs water through cut ends many times faster than through its faces. A failed caulk joint that opened years ago. And irrigation, a sprinkler head that has been hitting the same corner of the house twice a day for six years.
Replace the wood without fixing any of those and you have bought a few years. That is why our quotes name the source as well as the repair, and why if we cannot find the source we say so rather than pretending it does not matter.
Wood. Still the default here, paintable, matches what is there, and vulnerable to exactly the conditions above. Works well when every cut end is sealed and the water source has been dealt with.
Aluminum wrap over wood. Common, and it carries the same caution as wrapped fascia: the wood is still in there, and water behind the wrap rots it invisibly.
PVC and composite trim. Does not rot, which is the point. More expensive, and it moves more with temperature than wood, so it needs fixing and jointing to allow for that. Worth considering specifically for locations that have already failed once, particularly column bases and anything in ground contact.
Fiber cement trim. Durable, stable, heavy, and it needs cutting and handling properly.
We will tell you honestly where a like for like wood replacement is fine and where it is worth changing material, which is usually only at the places that have failed before.
We name the water source in the quote, because a trim repair that ignores it fails again.
We cut back to sound material, not to the edge of what you can see.
We seal every cut end, which is the cheapest thing that determines how long it lasts.
We do not cover wet sheathing.
We change material only where it has already failed, rather than upselling the whole elevation.
One contractor for roof, gutter and trim, because the cause is almost always a roofing or drainage detail.
We repair exterior trim and carpentry across:
Our office is on Preston Road in Frisco.
Trim rot rarely travels alone. Related work includes soffit and fascia repair, gutter repair, siding repair and painting . If a storm caused it, start with a free roof inspection.
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It sits awkwardly between trades, which is why people struggle to find anyone. It is too small for most general contractors, too exposed and too roof adjacent for most handyman services, and it usually needs a flashing or gutter fix as part of the repair. A roofing and exterior contractor is the right call, because the water causing it is almost always a roofing or drainage detail.
Because the water was never fixed. Replacing the wood without finding the source, a gutter overflow, a flashing gap, an open caulk joint, ground contact or a sprinkler head, buys a few years at most. Any quote that does not name the source has not diagnosed the problem.
Often yes. Column wraps are hollow and rot from both ends invisibly: water entering at the top and running down inside, and moisture wicking up from the porch slab at the base. Paint failure near the base is the usual first visible sign. Press it and see whether it is soft.
Sometimes, where the rot is localized and there is a sensible joint to work to. On a rake board or a long run, a scarfed repair can be more visible than a full board replacement, so we will tell you what each option looks like from the street before you choose.
At the places that have already failed, usually yes, particularly column bases and anything in ground contact. Across an entire house it is an expensive answer to a problem that is often solved by fixing the water.
Storm damage to exterior trim is commonly part of a property claim and belongs on the same claim as the roof, because it came from the same storm. Whether your policy covers a given item is between you, your policy and your agent. Trim is one of the most commonly overlooked items on a claim, which is why we photograph all of it.
Yes, including priming and sealing every cut end, which is the step that most determines how long the repair lasts. We will also advise how far to take the paint, because a repaired section painted in isolation tends to read as a patch on an elevation that has weathered.
Yes, and usually it should be, because the access is already set up and the water source is frequently a roofing or gutter detail. Doing them together means one contractor owns both the cause and the symptom.
If something is soft, peeling or has come loose, the wood is the symptom. The inspection looks for the water first, and the photographs are yours either way.
Call (469) 598-0899 or request a free estimate.
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