Cut 6 pieces of 1 in 2 5 cm thick wood to the width of your posts.
Cedar wrapped porch beams.
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It has structural qualities however we do not grade for that.
Your beams may be engineered wood and the columns fir.
I definitely needed it but at the same time i was chomping at the bit all day tuesday to go out and wrap the front porch posts.
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If the beams and columns are load bearing then cedar will not do the job.
Use a circular saw miter saw or portable table saw to trim a single long board into identical sections.
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Wrapping the structural lumber is the better approach for support and continuity.
2 and better western red cedar lumber is a knotty grade that meets appearance requirements.
One way to upgrade the look of your porch is to wrap your ordinary porch posts with cedar cladding.
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Often times butt corners are used rather than mitered corners to wrap beams and columns.
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Porch posts serve as structural support for the porch roof but can also provide curb appeal to your home exterior.
The width of these pieces should correspond exactly to the width of your porch posts while the height can be 1 2 inches 2 5 5 1 cm longer than the width depending on the exact dimensions of the posts.
After working on my porch floor for several very long days without a break if you missed it you can click here to see my porch floor project where i built a wood porch over an existing concrete porch matt insisted that i take a day off to recuperate.
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