SMITH & CO
WOOD RESTORATION PRODUCTS
The original GENUINE Smith's brand of wood restoration products
Clear Penetrating Epoxy Sealer™ (CPES)
A wood preservative that penetrates deeply into the wood to strengthen it and protect it from moisture, rot, and decay.
Smith's Clear Penetrating Epoxy Sealer is the only product made largely from the natural resins of wood itself. It creates a tough, flexible resin system that moves with the wood. It allows the wood to "breathe" so excess moisture does not accumulate behind it, promoting paint-failure and ultimately rot.
When repairing wood that has mild dry rot, the CPES will migrate along the abnormal porosity which dry rot fungus creates within the wood, as long as it continues to be fed in. Impregnation of wood with CPES changes the cellulose of wood (which fungi and bacteria find tasty and easily digestible) into epoxy-impregnated cellulose which resists further attack by fungi and bacteria while reinforcing the wood, accomplishing restoration.
Paint or varnish will last longer because the paint has a strongly attached, chemically compatible surface to bond onto.
"My first customers were people with rotting wood on their wood boats, in the early seventies. The Marine environment is vastly more severe than the Architectural environment. After a decade of exceptional performance on boats, the products spread quickly into the architectural marketplace where they easily outperformed the hundred-year-old wood-maintenance technology and products that were all-there-were in the paint, hardware and building-supply stores. Everyone clearly understood that if it worked on a boat, it would definitely give superior performance on a building."
- Steve Smith
Available in:
Warm Weather formula 65 to 85 Degrees
Cold Weather Formula 28 to 65 Degrees
2 Pint Kits, 2 Quart Kits and 2 Gallon Kits
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Use as a stand alone sealer
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Use with Fill-It for wood restoration (see below)
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Longer working time allows maximal wood penetration
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Solvent blend dissolves sap, oil and moisture found in wood
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Sealer forms an exceptionally strong bond with a wide variety of varnishes, paints, adhesives, and caulking – assuring adhesion to the substrate wood
How it works
Six steps to restoration
For treating and restoring rotted wood, you need to use both components of Smith's wood restoration system, CPES and Fill-It Epoxy Filler.
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Remove old paint and dry the wood. CPES will not work properly if the wood is waterlogged, and will not soak through old paint.
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Saturate the wood with CPES The filler (Fill-It Epoxy Filler™) sticks better to wood treated first with the sealer.
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The next day the Filler may be sanded to shape.
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Clean off any loose pieces of rotten wood. CPES works best on wood that cannot be easily picked off.
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After the solvents have evaporated (a day to a week, depending on ventilation and depth of decay), apply the filler.
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Before painting, apply one more coat of CPES to help the paint bond better to the wood and filler.