Exterior Door Trim Installation for Leduc, AB

The trim around the outside of your house, whether it’s made of vinyl or wood, undergoes wear and tear. Trim in poor condition does not only look ugly, but it can enable water to get beneath the surface and create further damage. While bad weather and other elements will inevitably cause damage, you can make repairs or replace trim so your exterior looks more appealing. Call Handyman Connection of Edmonton for trim repair and replacement in your Leduc, AB home.

How Do I Know My Trim Needs Replacement?

As you stroll around your house, check for any cracks, holes, damaged, loose, or decaying wood. Checking for damage helps you decide whether you can repair the wood, if you need to replace separate sections or must replace all the exterior trim around doors and windows. If wood isn’t decaying, extremely deformed or badly broken, a handyman can make a few expedited repairs to return trim to ideal shape.

• Wood: Wood is the most popular material for outdoor trim. It’s offered in either solid boards or finger-jointed pieces. Finger-jointed wood trim is simply shorter wood pieces that lock together. Wood trim is easy to install and holds paint well.
• Plastic: There are two main types of plastic trim, polyurethane and polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Polyurethane is somewhat pricier, but slightly denser and ready to paint. PVC needs to be sanded prior to painting.
• Fiber-cement: Fiber-cement combines cement, sand and wood-fiber fortification. It’s durable, fire resistant and resistant to water and insects. Fiber-cement trim is typically moisture resistant, which means paint will stick around for years to come.
• Laminated veneer lumber: Layers of wood veneer in a parallel grain and two veneer cross bands are covered by average density veneer to make this substance.
• Hardboard: Hardboard exterior trim is made from hardwood chips that are heated with steam and water and then pushed into board stock. During this process, lignin that is part of wood, will start to run again and work as paste to keep the board from separating. This paste makes the hardboard more resistant to decay than wood.

Contact Us Today

If you want the exterior trim of your home replaced, call Handyman Connection of Edmonton for an estimate. New trim not only creates a good-looking exterior for your house, it also creates waterproof protection at corners and surrounding doors and windows. There are so many choices for trim replacement and there is no time like the present to replace your old, decaying trim.