Carpentry at Magic Touch is mostly repair work on the wood around your house: decks, railings, stair treads and exterior trim. Freeze, thaw, repeat. After enough Upper Bucks winters, that is what softens the bottom of a post or splits a step. We have fixed that kind of damage out of our Quakertown shop since 1997.
If you have been looking for a carpenter near me because one rotten board has turned into three, we are a good first call. We repair the wood, and if it needs paint or stain after, the same crew handles that too.
Call us today to have someone look at the wood.
Most of our residential carpentry is exterior wood repair. Wood rot repair on porch trim, window sills and the boards closest to the ground. Wood railing repair when a rail has loosened or a baluster has split. Trim carpentry where old trim has rotted out and needs a new piece cut to match.
Deck boards, treads and posts are part of our deck restoration work, so a deck that needs both repair and a fresh stain gets handled as one job. Small fixes that are not really wood work, like a sticking door, go to our handyman crew.
The stone farmhouses around Richlandtown and Springtown often still have their original wood trim, and a lot of it has been painted over so many times that the rot underneath went unnoticed. Newer homes have their own problems: builder-grade railings that loosen, and porch skirting that sits too close to wet ground.
On log homes and cedar siding, we wash, strip the old finish, caulk the holes that need it, and apply two coats of stain with a pesticide solution to keep the wood protected.
We look at the wood before we price anything. Rot spreads further than it looks from the outside, so we check how much is soft before saying whether a piece can be repaired or has to come out. You get a straight answer either way.
Bare wood does not last long outside, so repaired pieces get finished. Our exterior painting crew matches trim, and decks get stain brushed on by hand.
We agree on what is being repaired, set a day, and work through it. Expect some noise and sawdust near the work area, and new wood that looks raw until it is painted or stained. If the house could use a cleaning first, a power wash makes it easier to see what you have.
We do not publish carpentry prices. A single rotted sill and a full run of railing are very different jobs, and hidden rot can change the scope. If you are calling around to carpentry contractors near me, ask each one how they price rot they cannot see yet. We will tell you how we handle it before any work starts. Call 215-529-9805.
We take carpentry work in Quakertown, Trumbauersville, Sellersville, Perkasie, Telford and Souderton, and in Coopersburg, Center Valley, Doylestown, New Hope, Warrington and Warminster. Read more about our history in Quakertown, see our deck staining work, or book house cleaning for when the sawdust settles.
Mostly repair work on decks and exterior wood: rotted boards, worn stair treads, railings and trim that has gone soft. If you are not sure whether a job is carpentry or a quick fix, call 215-529-9805 and describe it.
That depends on how far the rot has spread. We look at it first and tell you honestly whether a repair will hold or the piece needs replacing.
Yes. Repaired wood can be painted or stained by our crew, and on decks the stain is brushed on by hand so it gets into every crack.
Yes. We wash the house, remove existing stain or paint, clean it, caulk any holes that need it, and apply two coats of stain with a pesticide solution to protect the wood.
Call 215-529-9805, use the request form on this page, or stop by the shop at 928 S Old Bethlehem Pike in Quakertown. We look at the wood before we price the job.
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