We’re getting ready to paint and I was checking around my porch. There are three columns that support the roof over my porch. One of them had a decorative cross member that was dislodged because of dry rot at the location where the cross member was nailed to the column. I saw some dry rot there and started to excavate the rot.
Here are some pictures of the bottom of the post. It has a small amount of concrete around the posts. The post goes into the concrete an inch or two deep.
What should I do about this. I think that since there are two others columns supporting the porch roof this one with the rotted base didn’t really affect the general load bearing aspect.
How should I fix this? Just add a lot of bondo, or wood filler, et.
Take the post out and put in a new one? (I don’t want to do this bc I would need to take out all he decorative cross beams.
Cut out the old wood base and graft on a nicer/new to replace the big sections that we cut out?
Best Answer
Are you sure about the load bearing? It may sag if you are not careful...
Anyway either replace the post completely or make a replacement bottom section and support the rest of the structure - acrow jacks work well for this type of thing.
This is one example of a supplier of acrow jacks - many others... : https://www.scaffolding-direct.co.uk/new-size-3-acrow-prop-2-4m-4m/