How To Repair A Rotted Porch Post Base

You can find out how bad the problem is by peeling back a little more of the paint you have to repaint the column anyway.

How to repair a rotted porch post base.

Peeling paint at the base of a porch column or deck post often indicates that the base has been and still is wet. Unscrew and remove the handrail attached to the rotted porch post. Our front porch is poured concrete and has 6 6 wooden beams supporting the porch roof. Repair it before it gets.

The supports are sitting on top of concrete a foot down i think. If it feels soft and spongy it s rotted. Temporarily support the porch roof on either side of the rotted post with a hydraulic jack and a long 2x4 post. I dug some holes on a post with a screwdriver.

I think inside these posts the rot may progress even higher. Each cb88 column base has 2 bolts. Over time some of those beams have sustained wood rot at the base and are no longer touching the concrete in places. Porch column rot is pretty common along the base and eventually becomes a home for carpenter ants.

Use a reciprocating saw to cut the top of the post free from the overhead beam. I got two estimates to fix it 1 jack deck up and replace 6x6 s and put rubber sleeve on them. We have been fixing issues that stem from years of neglect including issues that were caused by moisture including rotten porch posts. Remove the rotted post and lay it across two sawhorses.

Now push a screwdriver into the wood. Concrete three 6x6 support posts under deck concrete above ground and a 10 diameter around existing 6x6 posts. Unfortunately because the posts are situated along the exterior perimeter of the porch the wood is exposed to wind driven rain and roof runoff or splash up resulting in rot at the base.