Damaged wood trim is a common problem, but there are ways to tackle the issue. As expert Bob Beacham tells us, repairing it is easier than you think.

The house was built in 1978 and the trim boards are beginning to rot so will not hold stain. We will be getting vinyl soffits and fascia and the contractor will wrap window trim with aluminum.

Q: The white coating on our aluminum trim is peeling badly in places, particularly on the sunnier side of our house. The contractor who installed the siding, windows and trim in 2009 is no longer ...

Q: My 18-year-old, two-story house has exterior stucco that is in good shape. But the doors and windows are trimmed in rough-sawn, painted 1-by- 4s, some of which have begun to rot. Not only is ...

He has seen owners of a large, 12-year-old brick house in the $1.3 million price range spend $15,000 to $20,000 to replace the rotted wood exterior trim with “nearly foolproof” plastic trim to ...

Q: The white coating on our aluminum trim is peeling badly in places, particularly on the sunnier side of our house. The contractor who installed the siding, windows and trim in 2009 is no longer ...

A single-family wooden house in a rapidly gentrifying stretch of Bedford Stuyvesant has survived for nearly 150 years, ... mantels, picture rails, a wood-fired stove, and frothy white trim.

Wood is some incredible stuff. It literally grows from the ground and it’s durable, attractive, and easy to cut and shape—no wonder 90% of new houses are still framed at least partially using ...

When a father and son hired architect Joseph Koelbel to restore the exterior of their 1870s Greenpoint row house, the wood-frame house had been stripped of most of its original detail over time. The ...