Name: Video: Identifying and Treating Dry Rot
Uploaded: 2024-02-12T06:19:48Z
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SANTA ROSA — Host, Sarah Rutan: Repairing dry rot can be costly. So, today we&#8217;re in Santa Rosa with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Greg Kuzmicki of Solidarity Painting to learn about how you can repair and prevent dry rot.
Expert Contributor, Greg Kuzmicki: Dry rot on a home is something you don’t really think about, but by the time you notice it, it can get very costly. When new home builders build homes, they don’t back prime the edges or the sides of the panels so you have a lot of water absorption, which causes dry rot down the road. You can see the example on here. This is a bay window and you can see how the water got absorbed into the siding and causes a lot of damage.
So, here is one more really good example of how the siding was not properly installed. It was never sealed, it was never primed so when you have raw wood over raw wood and the caulking breaks down, the water just absorbs and causes dry rot. So, before you put up new siding, you want to make sure your panels are primed on all the edges, the front and back. This will prevent this from happening &#8211; we pulled this away from a chimney, this was the bottom of the chimney, you can see how it’s all disintegrated.
So, once again, very important to locate all of the problem areas on your home. Number two, remove all the dry rot. Number three, prime all edges on new siding, backs, everything, really, really good. Then use a really good, high quality caulking material. Here’s an example of what you don’t want to use, even though it says 25 year, 35 year, 50 – it don’t make any difference, its all marketing. You do want to use something like this, its Side Winder and even though it’s made by the same brand, this is a very superior product and also this one here, it’s called Lifetime GE, it’s a urethane based, very high quality caulking material.
Host, Sarah Rutan: Thank you to our Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Greg Kuzmicki of Solidarity Painting. I’m Sarah Rutan.

Video: Identifying and Treating Dry Rot

Greg and Alice Kuzmicki, Owners of Solidarity Painting, Inc., a Diamond Certified company, explains repairing dry rot can be costly.
 
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Diamond Certified Experts: Dry Rot Prevention and Repair

with Greg Kuzmicki of {BR} Solidarity Painting, Inc.

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How to Prevent and Repair Dry Rot

repairing dry rot can be costly So today
we're in Santa Rosa with diamond
certified expert contributor Greg kmii
of solidarity painting to learn about
how you can repair and prevent dry rot
dry rot on a home is something you don't
really think about but by the time you
notice it it can get very
costly when new home builders build
homes they don't back Prime the edges or
the sides of the panels so you have a
lot of water absorption which causes dry
down the road you can see the example on
here this is a bay
window and you can see how the water got
absorbed into the siding and caused a
lot of damage so here's one more really
good example how the siding was not
properly installed it was never sealed
it was never primed so when you have raw
wood again G going over raw wood and the
cocking breaks down the water just
absorbs and causes dry
Rod so before you put up new siding you
want to make sure that your panels are
primed on all the edges the front and
back this will prevent this from
happening we pull this away out of a
chimney this was the bottom of the
chimney you can see how it's all
disintegrated so once again very
important important to locate all the
problem areas on your home number two
remove all the dry Rod number three
prime all the edges on new siding backs
everything really really good and then
use a really good high quality cocking
material here's an example of what you
don't want to use even though it says 25
year 35 50 year it don't make any
difference it's all marketing you do
want to use something like this it's
side Winder even though it's made by the
same brand DB this is a a very Superior
product and also this one here it's
called lifetime from GE it's a urethane
based very high quality cocky
material thank you to our Diamond
certified expert contributor great kmii
of solidarity painting I'm Sarah
Routan

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