LiquidWood

I am a General Contractor, retired now after 45 years. There is not much that rots that I have not seen or been asked to repair/replace. This product has saved me and my clients so much time and money it is hard to put a value on it. I used to used polyester resin (Bondo). But in a year it will crack because it does not bond permanently to the wood cells. Abatron Liquid Wood is different. It is a very slow setting epoxy. You can mix it up and pour or brush it onto sections of rotting wood, tops of water decayed beams, delaminating plywood flooring, etc., and it will move into and be absorbed by the wood cells before it begins to cure. When cured, that part which used to be organic rot is now basically a plastic structure. Nearly impervious to water, it cannot rot any longer. Loose fibers do not need to be cleaned before applying as they become a structural part of this epoxy bond as the material is absorbed and hardens. You can probably tell that I am a big fan of this product. The sister product they make, Abatron Woodepox, is a 2 part epoxy material that is similar to lightweight spackle. Mixed in equal parts, you can work this by hand into voids, large and small, rughly shape it to the original wood member size, and walk away for 24 hrs. When you come back, it is perfectl;y bonded to the Liquidwood and the remaining solid wood. It can now be cut, sanded, shaped as necessary and painted. That part of your beam (or whatever) will not rot again. It bonds with the wood, so it moves with the wood... no cracking. No call backs. No problems. I highly recommend this over any other exterior patching or repair compound I have ever tried. It is not inexpensive. But then, neither is your time nor reputation. This is how the job is done right the first time.

Worked great

Fairly easy to work with when mixing but I wish it was in a more "pour friendly" container. It is liquid and runny so be careful about drips and runs. Hardened overnight in a high humidity environment and seems to be setting up and curing well. Dries clear and glossy. Only time will tell if it lasts on an exterior application (deck) exposed to weather. It looks like it will take paint easily, but I don't know if it will take a stain or not. It's expensive but so far, I'm impressed. Although the instructions stated you could apply it directly to rotten wood and let it soak in, they also stated that the wood needed to be dry. I chose to remove as much of the rotten wood as I could - primarily because it had a high moisture content. After applying this product, I filled the hole with their epoxy putty.

I have a 100+ year old home that has wood siding and many decorative wood pieces that were not maintained before I bought the house. The worst part of the house is a large gable decoration in the shape of a cross made of 6" x 6" beams. The wood was just starting to lose paint when I bought the house, and after a few winter the paint was completely gone. Carpenter bees moved into the fresh wood and turned the beams into hollowed out shells. The bees continued to attack the wood for years despite my best efforts to control them. I finally set up scaffolding to reach the top and was able to control the bees for good. However, to my dismay it appeared the gable decoration was a total loss. I thought about taking it down and replacing it but I would have to get some exotic wood or it would be sure to fail in no time. I found out about this product from a friend, although I was skeptical, I decided to give it a try. I took a drill bit through the carpenter bee holes in the bottom of the beam and drilled completely through the top. Then, I plugged the holes at the bottom with Abatron epoxy wood filler. After that, I poured the LiquidWood epoxy into the holes at the top of the beam to completely fill the voids created by the carpenter bees. The next day, I was amazed at how the beam went from being something that could be ripped apart by bare hands to a like-new beam. The top of the beam had a lot of completely rotten spots that had caved in to the carpenter bee chambers so I solidified them with LiquidWood and filled the rest of the way with the epoxy wood filler. I have found that the epoxy wood filler does not crack out like the polyester wood fillers that I used to use. This stuff saved me thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of labor. I just bought the two-gallon kit to fix up the other gable decoration on the front of my house that is in much worse shape. This product has exceeded my expectations and gave me a whole new outlook on my home restoration process.

This is too thick to think it will absorb into rotted wood. it seems to dry strong and do what epoxies do...but needed to be a little thinner. It helped me reinforce some rotted wood and coat other wood and I used it, but wish it was a bit thinner. In general it was OK and better value than other brands.

A little spendy, but seems to work well on a deck beam that has some dry rot. Hardens the wood and prepare it for the epoxy putty.

Great for fixing rotted wood. Easy to use.

Great product easy to use & dried so fast!

Yes, this product does the job in hardening the wood that stays in this form even after being soaked with rain after curing. ♥️

Ce produit est un peu cher mais ça sauve ma vieille galerie avec les bois craqués. Après le travail je n'entends presque plus de bruits quand je marche dessus. Une fois gelé dans le bois ça devient extrêmement solide, même plus solide que le bois lui même. Faites attention cependant que vous n'avez que 30 minutes environ pour travailler une fois mélanger les deux réactifs (la définition de "working time" sur la description n'est pas assez claire pour les débutants comme moi), sinon ça se gèlera très vite dans votre conteneur, surtout quand il fait chaud et quand le produit mélangé est exposé directement sous le soleil. Je n'avais pas d'expérience au début car j'ai pas fait assez vite puis tout est mêlé...

Great product! It's a little pricey but works really good.

Hardened and strengthened rotting wood - great product. Easy to use.

Used it to restore rim joist-to-post contact areas on a deck that did not easily allow for removing the rim joist due to fiberglass deck surface. Once mixed, there was at least one hour of pot life and it took about 8 hours to dry to a tacky film. It was hard after 12 hours. It has low viscosity having the consistency of maple syrup. This allows it to be soaked deeply into punky wood. Once it hardened, I restored the missing wood with Bondo. It goes further than I thought. I ended up only using about half. I cannot com but the completed job looked great.ment on how it will stand up