I swear that I made a post about this!
However, I cannot find anything.
So, I decided to surprise Mom for Mother's Day--2018. She didn't like the rough-hewn trim and the paint was peeling off. I pained the house in 2007 and had a horrible time with the trim. I could not just sand it without removing the trim texture, but when I used my random orbital sander on a piece of trim, it quickly gummed up the new sanding disc and hardly removed any paint.
It turns out that the answer is a planer. I ran the good boards through once or twice and it made short work of the bad paint and annoying texture.
Anyway, I thought that where possible I would flip the boards over, but about half of them had dry rot, so I decided to replace them. Unfortunately, the boards that I bought were a little too small, and the original pieces did not have rounded corners, so I bought a planer and turned 2x6es into 1x4s:
Yeah, that took a while, and the price-per-board was ridiculous.
Today I saw this video:
I could have cleaned out the rotted wood and used epoxy filler?!
That system costs $200!
I wished that I had seen this video before I bought the planer, but $200 for epoxy or $350 for a planer, although I would have used a coupon, and the more expensive the product, the harder that I would have looked for a coupon. It was $250 just a couple of weeks ago.
Someone commented that the epoxy cost $200, but the manufacturer sells it for $67. The special gun is $72. With shipping the total is $161.12.
However, I found other products for much less. Are they as good? I do not have any idea. Minwax has great reviews, but many people say that it is just Bondo with a different label and higher price tag.
Many people commented that they could have just used Bondo and saved tons of money.
Well, Mother's Day is coming up again, I should really finish this finally!