How to repair cracks in cedar siding with wood filler.
Filler for siding repair.
With bondo wood filler you can complete professional looking repairs in less than 30 minutes.
Instead of using a thinner solvent based wood filler you ll be using a heavier putty and then placing it in and around the area that you re looking to repair.
Cedar is a relatively stable wood species one of the reasons that home builders favor it for exterior applications like siding.
Make sure you check for rot before you decide on which product you re going to apply rot will continue to spread unabated if you don t use the correct putty.
1 scrape all loose paint from around the area to be repaired using a paint scraper or putty knife.
Scrape off any excess wood filler.
Use wood filler to place the patch inside the hole.
Don t worry if the patch slightly juts out from the hole.
Place wood filler around the edges of both the patch and the hole and fit the patch into place.
This product is a high performance wood filler that hardens in 15 minutes and it turns sandable in half an hour.
Repair baseboards window sills furniture wood trims on door frames and jambs soffits and fascia cabinets fences hardwood floors stairs decks garage doors siding and flower boxes.
This is easily repaired.
This filler cures in under 10 minutes and sets completely in around an hour.
Fiber cement board lap siding repair guide.
Our page top photo shows loose and improperly installed fiber cement siding on.
This article describes repair procedures for cosmetic or functional siding issues that may arise such as loose siding wind damaged siding siding paint or coating failures and siding gaps especially gaps at fiber cement siding butt joints where lap siding is installed.
We bring simplicity back to home improvement with one simple patch.
The filler dries pretty fast and its durability is top notch.
With each purchase comes 2 mendyl vinyl repair patches dimensions.
Mendyl vinyl siding repair kit is the only do it yourself vinyl siding repair kit on the market today.
6 1 2 by 4 3 4 inches.
This can be the same wood filler used to repair smaller holes.
The patch is made of a very thin piece of pvc the reason it is so thin is so when.
Currently this wood filler is available at either 6 or 12 oz.
Over time it won t shrink crack or fall out which is ideal for outdoor applications.
The filler can be easily sanded by hand or power tool in only 15 minutes and shaped planed drilled routed or sawed just like wood.