On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:36:09 GMT, "Hamilton Audio"
wrote:

Last year late summer, I started to repaired and paint all rotting woods. It
took me 3 weeks to removed and replace section of rotting woods with new lumber
on three windows. I decided it's too costly and time consuming, I went to HD
talk to the people in the paint section. I asked about various putty. I bought a
16 oz "Durham's" Rock Hard Water Putty and 1Qt "Custom Exterior Spackling
Paste".

'Durham" cost more than "Custom..". dries faster. "Custom.." is equally Hard and
waterproof. Looking at both finished after he first snow fall late last year. I
came to the conclusion "Custom" seem to be better than Durham putty. I will
continue with the repairs in spring using both Durham and Custom. on small rots
I will use Durham and bigger ones I will use Custom Exterior Spackling Paste.

I think for your skinny exterior windows, Durham should be a better choice.

i've got a large but skinny exterior window just to the right of my front
entrance door. The bottom sill sticks out more than the rest (design
element) and of course holds water when it rains....

so - the bottom left corner of frame (where the left panel meets the bottom
sill) has gotten soft. I've read about 2 part products that contain a wood
petrifier to solidify the wood (when the majority of the crappy rotted wood
has been removed) and then an epoxy based putty that you use to "replace"
the wood with.

has anybody had experience with this type of product? any opinions? i'm
looking to do some springtime repairs and would like this to be one of them.

b