Wood DIY Countdown to Christmas- Making the Roof Break Disappear

Hi everyone! In my previous post about my wood countdown to Christmas decoration, I talked about how the roof of the house was broken. I was able to glue the broken pieces back onto the house, but the broken sections could still be seen. I also knew it would be visible even when painted. In order to make these broken areas blend into the rest of the roof, I decided to use a wood filler on the broken areas.

The wood filler I decided to use is JB Weld’s Kwik Wood…

To be honest, I didn’t like using it for this project. It did work good enough, but it was hard for me to work with and didn’t work the way I thought it would. Still, it did the job.

This is what the front of the house looked like…

And here is a close up of the broken part of the roof…

I knew I would need to sand the areas I filled, but I also struggled to sand the filler smooth. I wish I used a wood filler I was more familiar with!

Even though I had problems using the filler, I decided to move onto other areas of the house that needed filling. These areas include the back of the roof and areas of the back of the house…

Here is another close up of the roof, showing how much I struggled to get the filler smooth…

Here is the other part of the of the house I tried to fill…

This area had large gaps where the wood joints are located.

I also filled gaps in other parts of the roof, including the chimney…

I was able to sand down these areas enough to make me happy, but I still feel pretty frustrated by the problems with the wood filler. I’ll talk more about what the filled in areas looked like after I sanded in the next post.

 

That’s all for now! Thank you for reading!