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Wood columns tin make a real argument, whether as part of a g entrance fashion or a porch back up. Replacing a forest porch post was recently a task needed on one of my clients homes.

This work was coordinated with Marker from O'Lalor Painting. He and his coiffure will be post-obit my visit with touch up painting.

While replacing some porch floor and cavalcade base trim, I noticed that the bottom portion of the column was rotted.

Using The Proper Forest

This column and others on this business firm were framed with regular framing fabric and not pressure treated lumber. I'm yet not sure why. It's possible they felt that the roof was going to protect these posts but the reality is air current driven rain and snow exercise become these posts wet. The porch roof also does not have gutters so runoff and spray wet the posts as well.

Click on photo to overstate – notice the pencil sticking out of bottom border of column.

This column is exposed to the conditions on three sides. H2o sitting o the porch deck seeped upwardly and into the end grain fibers of the framing lumber. Carpenter ants followed shortly after.

After stripping the column trim it was discovered that the unabridged structural column and decking underneath it was compromised by rot. [photo below]

Support The Roof

In order to remove this rotted column the roof structure above needed to be temporarily supported. Nosotros used xiv′ long two×half-dozen framing cloth to brand a "strong back" support brace.

The brace was installed on the granite footstep to keep it out of the way of replacing the rotted decking. Before installing the new column we leveled this roof. The erstwhile column and decking had rotted and every bit a consequence the cavalcade to sunk approx i/iv″ to 3/8″ out of level.

Rubber flashing was applied to the exposed framing material before replacing the decking.

We replaced the decking with like material. We used 1×4 fir decking and pre-primed the back side and all edges, as well equally the section the column will sit down on..

Utilise Pressure Treated Wood

I fabricated the new column out of built up pressure treated lumber and 1/two pressure treated plywood. The column is approx. 5 one/2″ x 5 i/2″ square.

Structural column installed, plumbed and fastened in place.

Making and Installing the Trim

The new column trim was fabricated on the work demote. We attached three sides together, installed information technology, and and so nailed the final lath on in identify.

The cavalcade capital or superlative molding is comprised of 3 slice of cloth: a ii×2 square block, 1/2″ x 6 window stop and a bed molding. All of the unpainted woods was back primed and miters glued.