Wood Trim Repair & Replacement by Monk’s

Monk’s Home Improvements can dress up your current trim, install new trim, or repair cracks and missing pieces. After repairing your trim, we can finalize the look with a coat of paint from our highly skilled painting crew.

Trim boards are the part of your home that usually surrounds your windows, doors, soffits, and corners of your home.  They are usually painted white.

Replace Finger-Jointed Pine

If you have a house built since 1995, there is a good chance your pine trim is suffering from rot. The unfortunate reality is that we all have used up the majority of the old-growth forests over the last 100 years. One of the industry’s first attempts to handle the shortage of wood trim was to create finger-jointed trim out of primed pine as shown below.

This process involved taking much smaller pieces of wood and gluing them together in a factory and then selling them as one piece of wood. This seemed like a good idea until about 2005 when most of this trim started to rot. The newer the wood trim, the less time it lasts. It is our opinion that any contractor still installing pre-primed pine on the exterior of houses in New Jersey is irresponsible or simply doesn’t understand enough about home maintenance to be working on exteriors.