Repairing Termite Damaged Sill Plate in Load Bearing Wall 

This and your video before this about replacing studs from inside the home are very helpful. I'm finding myself in a very similar situation with a house I just purchased. Thanks!

Thank you for posting your video. This is exactly what I need to do for my home built in 1930

exactly what I have been looking for. My wife and I are buying a home built in 1976. It had termite treatment and we are going to take down the walls to get to frame. I needed a video like this incase we have to replace the studs and plates. Thanks!

Great stuff! I knew our 70's house had had termites in the past, but I didn't expect to find so much damage when I gutted the master bath on the second floor. This was the section that's up against the chimney, so it kind of makes sense that they made it so far, and it also made your one-sided access very relevant. This doesn't answer the problem of missing/disintegrated sheathing between the studs and the chimney, but one problem at a time... get down to studs and sub-floor and support where needed.

The two videos helped very much!! I have the exact issue on a house I am redoing the kitchen on. The entire exterior side wall is in the same condition with the outside sheathing and tyvek wrap gone.

I have a very similar repair I need to make, but for a different reason. My man, thanks for the awesome advice and video. This was very helpful.

Thank you for your help I have the EXACT same situation on my brick home

Great video. Thanks for posting!

Nice video, My cental air conditioning system has been leaking water into the Sole/Bottom plate on the basement interior support wall next to it. I can see the unfinished wall is starting to bow and crack a little. I think I will need to replace the King plate on the doorway also.

Great repair carpenter.

This video is great for what is happening to my house right now. I’m a little concerned the man who’s doing mine has left one piece I think should have been replaced. Maybe I will do it myself now! 🙂 Thanks!

Idk why but I felt like I was about to fire up an episode of Jackass with that warning lol

Going to put in 4x4 posts on a 2x6 that spans the garage 18" from the wall I'm replacing. The overhead door wall is shot with termite damage.

Good job 👍

Great job🤙🏼

OK. We got a wall and window to address. That belt scares me. Thank you.

Great job and I need to do a similar, albeit far more extensive repair to some rotten bottom plates and studs. Might somebody use one of those telescopic scaffold poles, which screw taller and have a wider top and bottom? (I am trying to figure out what to use...? I guess if I go the timber way like you have, then I can re use that timber for the temporary frame for timbers in the structure vs spend money hiring or buying the telescopic metal poles that I might never use again....???

This video came at a perfect time for me. Have to do the same repair around my entire house. Would it still work on a wall that runs the same direction as your ceiling joists? I’m guessing that a wall under 1 joist would be enough to get the weight of the sill plate for replacing

Great video 👍🙌, thank you for making it

great info

Mine is brick too and I need to replace a garage door header and top plate. Major termite damage.

Great idea.

Thanks.

I have to cut holes in my garage ceiling and inspect the trusses by the overhead door, 11' of the wall at the rough opening is termite eaten. Have brick face as well.

So if you had to replace the bottom plate for an entire wall would you build the support wall across the length of the whole wall or do it in sections like you have here.

I think im going to scab some treated wood beside each stud onto the concrete kinda like a porch post, and piece meal my bottom plate, and then scab another piece on each side above the new piecemeal bottom plate. So in other words my 2x4 treated pieces will be my seal plate for an area of 2 inches and then i can piece my seal plate as needed per section. Cutting the sheetrock wall up at each stud enough to scab till i can get under the original stud.

Did you go underneath and support the joists?

I wish i had help to do this

Would the temporary wall be good for a 2nd floor?

Very helpful! Would you need to create a temporary stud wall if you’re only replacing a small section of the sill plate, sat 12” or so?

I have damage to outer corner studs, and perhaps the top and sill plate too. Concrete foundation, brick exterior. Roof is truss. Will replace the three studs that make up the corner. Since the trusses go over this to good studs, I do not think this particular section is load bearing. Would you still recommend a temporary wall?

Are you willing to be hired to do out of state termite damage repairs and new window installation?

What glue are you using?

For replacing a 12 foot section, should I build a 12 foot long alternate wall like you did, or use two 8-ft floor jacks with a 12 foot 6x6 beam across the top?

I understand you are speaking of a loadbearing wall however, the damaged wall standing. Your section was only about four feet of damage on one wall. If there was a risk of collapse then the rotted wall already would've. The temporary support wall only served to allow the sills to easily go back into place. It is better to air on the side of safety with the temporary wall though.

I'm replacing a bottom plate it my garage.... do you think their is any harm in replacing it in shorter 32-34 inch increments so that there isn't as much to brace all at once?

I may have water damage on the studs themselves and saw on a forum the method "sistering studs " in which you would fasten the new wood to the old studs after removing the rotted pieces . do you believe this to be an effective method ? or would you recommend building the false wall to support .

When you said you made the temp wall slightly taller than the actual wall height to lift the studs up slightly how much taller are you making it?

How do you get the new sill onto a mounting bolt with the studs in the way?

It could have stayed, those sills were like new. Oh you had to lift it and expose the lower 2/3; way to go. Original had ZERO hold down bolts, why?

Your not replacing the rimjoist, or sill plate. That is a bottom plate of a wall. Correct me if I'm not hearing it or misread the title of video but, you said termite damaged sill plate replacement?!? Your totally not replacing that... What your referring to is a bottom plate, sill plate is the board that attaches the home to the foundation with anchors(j bolts) the rim joist goes on top of that, along with floor joists. Then comes the bottom plates for walls like your taking out of the home in this video. Your rite about them being load bearing walls, but your terminology is incorrect. Or have I completely missed the sill plate part on this video?

Only 1/16" extra

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