Fix Rotted Door Frame (Brickmold)

visit the onus carpenter comm and get your home related questions answered by a trade expert hey everybody I'm Ethan James with the honest carpenter comm and in this video I'm gonna show you how to repair rotted brick mold like you see on the outside of this door so as little extra info brick mold is this particular type of casing that you see on a lot of exterior doors and windows hides the gap between the door jamb and the wall or the rough opening it gives something deciding to bump up against it's often made of porous pine that rots down here at the bottom he sees over and over again so the repair I frequently do to save people some money is I just cut off the bottom maybe 12 or 16 inches and replace that with PVC that can't rock now on this particular door you also see something else that happens a lot jamb rot I made another video about this I'm not gonna cover it in this one but I will link that video in my end screen so be sure to check it out I do a similar repair for the jams and in this case I'm gonna do both by Mellinger of the brick mold and so I will set up the cut by creating good straight line here and then I'll cut the lower portion off and that'll make room for the repair so I've gone ahead and mark my cut here as you can see in this case I did it 16 inches up because I always do this repair on those brick molds you already showed a little sign of rot here even if I wasn't yet I would probably go ahead and do this side because it eventually it will rot especially when you have the deck this close to it this water can bounce up it can bounce up off the threshold inevitably this brick molds gonna give away and this second one had some damage that dog was chewing on it and I thought might as well go ahead and cut that out as well so I said this one at 16 and I always like to do in parallel to each other just cuz it winds up looking better so to get those straight lines I just pull up 16 inches with my measuring tape and then I use a combination square set against the inner edge of the brick mold and I trace scribe a line across the top of my pencil and also do this little inner cheek as well that's going to help me guide my cut in when I'm using the oscillating multi which I will show next so this is the multi oscillating tool that I'm going to use to make this plunge cut into the brick mold if you watch my videos you're gonna see this thing time and time again I use it for any instance where I need to make a plunge cut directly into a piece of trim or something like that I wrote a whole article on this I'll link it down in the description check it out like this the most useful tool you can have for home repair so I'm gonna redirect camera here a little bit and let you see how this works [Music] [Music] that's it that's through the basically hole an inch-and-a-quarter dance of the brick mold and I know it went through because I kind of feel it punch to the back but pretty much all I do is I just keep the thing moving side to side little strokes I don't want to get too far over and chip the jam too much I don't want to come too far over and chip the vinyl siding either so just work it back and forth scribe a line first with the tool and then begin to work it in make sure you're using a sharp blade or it gets very ineffective fast if the plays sharp it'll just go through like butter basically so yeah I will start to pry this piece out and then we'll get a new one cut a couple tips for removing the notch that you just made I always start by getting a good sharp utility knife and cutting the caulk at the inner edge and the outer edge and then I begin to use my hammer to tap in my five-in-one like a bevel towards the door begin prying it if you can really visibly see a nail that's there's not gonna be many on this load down in the door just one or two use something like a cat's paw or a five in one to actually pry out that individual nail and the piece is probably just gonna want to come away with a little more work but I'll have this off in about ten seconds there's the piece removed you can see a little tongue of wood that I didn't cut back there that broke off pretty easily it'd probably be better to clean up with the saw before I pulled this thing out but it didn't make a big difference you can see this like massive three and a half inch trim nail that I'll pry it out there was white one more at the bottom somewhere right there I'll pull that out and now we have a good surface to come in here and install a new piece of brick mold at this point I should mention that I was a little disconcerted with a couple of the things I found when we tore off the brick mold particularly that the house wrap did not fully cover the exposed framing in the rough opening here as a normally would but I also didn't find much rot in that area and given that an extensive repair would have involved tearing off the vinyl siding and possibly parts of the deck the homeowner and I both decided that it wasn't worth doing it especially if it wasn't showing visible signs of rot yet so I was okay with adding some sealants in various sensitive places and closing it back up as is in the homeowner could just keep an eye on it and keep an eye on the new jam pieces down the line for further signs of rot what another thing I'd like to point out it's actually a little easier to show on the jamb cut I just made when I'm doing these plunge cuts with the oscillating multi-tool notice that I didn't actually dig in square I go in at a slight upward angle just a little bit a couple degrees or something and what that does when I cut my replacement piece that ensures that the front face will be able to get as tight as possible to the face above it I don't care if there's a little gap at the back because I'm gonna be attaching into the rough opening through this space I just want to make sure that these two faces come together pinch together real tightly and you can do that more easily if you cut at this slight upward angle because it's gonna leave the back and a little bit higher up than the front so the piece will be able to scoot in there real easily and won't get held down by something poking down from the back here so let's just something I want to point out so here I've got the new jamb pieces spliced into place the guy Brad nails and adhesive holding him in place they're gonna set up better overnight but this is this is clear the way for me to go ahead and cut and replace the brick little pieces so all you do at this point is pull a measurement from the deck to the underside of the piece above usually at the face of the piece and that's your that's your cut line if you're doing this on a window you have to remember to put something like a 15 degree angle or miter on the bottom of your replacement piece but that's not going to be the situation here because it's a door this piece over here might actually fall into this little hole in here I don't mind cuz I'm gonna fill these holes with silicone that's gonna be part of another repair I'm doing underneath the house it's sort of the best thing we can do on short notice without tearing up the deck without tearing up the third threshold in the kitchen floor keep water from from getting in there where it's called caused a problem underneath the house in the subfloor but at this point you just go ahead and use your tape measure to pull measurements for you replacement pieces and these will be square on the top and square on the bottom here's the PVC replacement this mold we're gonna use this stuff is just really light molded PVC my replacement case is gonna be about 20 inches again if you have to put a liner on the underside turn it up on edge adjuster mitogen like 5 degrees or something 15 the windows and cut that minor first and then measure up from the long point but in this case we're cutting square so I'm just gonna measure up 20 make a mark do a square cut and just remember that fake mold has this routed detail out on the outside in this case more to detail you need to make sure that that detail is always to the left or right of the door frame based on which side of the door you're replacing so this uh this molding is directional just keep that in mind when you're cutting it especially if you're having to put any kind of angle on it so this looks messy but all this is gonna get hidden you get silicone down below I'm going to add more from the underside of the house what I like to do is take the piece and bed it into caulk on the jam on the siding edge and on the underside of the brick more above and also in the spots in the rough opening behind and what you wind up with when you put it in there is this piece which gets kind of pushed back and caulk is fairly adhesive even so now I'm gonna only gonna add a few Brad nails to this thing to keep it in place and then I'm gonna call it the seams around once it's in place to hide the attachment points and the things going to look really well bedded and it's gonna have some extra adhesion holding it in so I'm just gonna do that for the same one over here then caulk the perimeters and it'll just about be done until it gets chance to dry up here's the wrap-up to the brick mold repair I got my new pieces spliced in I shot them in with 2-inch Brad nails for my dry nailer I'll put that many in just to back into the rough opening framing high and low and then two more into the jamb I really locks it in place like I said I went ahead and caulked the full perimeter I'll go ahead and caulk my nail heads as well and after the caulk has time to dry up this will be ready for paint and paint it really hide the splices on that repair that's gonna wind up looking good thanks for watching the video if you enjoyed it please hit like and subscribe below thank you we're now offering live video consultations and phone consultations to homeowners nationwide to get your most important home related questions answered by trade expert just visit the honest 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Channel: The Honest Carpenter

Views: 1,056,740

Keywords: door frame, doorframe, rotted door, door rot, wood rot, rotted door frame, brickmold, brick mold, rotted brick mold, rotted brickmold, door frame rot, fix brickmold, fix doorframe, fix wood rot, brickmould, brick moulding

Id: FQHWb9q1k1U

Length: 9min 50sec (590 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 26 2019