Sometimes, it’s all you can do.
When I discovered dry rot under the kitchen counter top, it launched the entire discussion about how to go about repairing/replacing/remodeling the kitchen. For now, we’ve decided to make do until we can figure out how to fund a rehab.
In the mean time, this was just too ugly – and unsanitary – to leave exposed, so I cut and shaped some quarter inch dimensioned red oak to hide the mess.
Thank god for liquid nails, and 23 gauge brads to pin things in place during curing.
Improvisation is a beautiful art. I needed a clamp to hold an edge down during the time the glue was drying, so I filled a 2 quart sauce pan with water and set it on top of a block of oak, which is on top of a shim, which is pressing down on the finish piece while it dries. Funny thing – a clamping weight that you pour down the drain after you’re done with it.
The result:
Now Camille doesn’t get the heebie jeebies every time she goes to use the dishwasher!