Measure the height and width of your porch posts.
Covering metal porch columns.
Center each piece on the inside bottom of.
Attach boards around existing columns.
By pam kueber august 16 2011 january 30 2019.
Dia support columns with this oak 12 in.
Quick and easy to install.
A very attractive alternative to the tedious process of building a box around your unfinished columns.
These will be the column shaft.
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.
Stretch a tape measure from the floor of your porch up to the ceiling or bottom of the upper level deck alongside one of the posts.
Cut the four boards to the length that you determined in step 1.
Pole wrap 16 in l x 4 ft h red oak veneer unfinished fluted column wrap.
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Cut and install bottom blocking cut four pieces of the 1x1 to 1 1 2.
Add curb appeal to your midcentury home with ornamental metal porch columns 3 sources for this old school product.
Screw one of the 10 inch boards to one of the 8 inch boards at their.
Cut and install top.
Cut boards to length cut four 1x6 boards to length based on the ceiling height.
Wide panels of premium red oak bonded.
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.
Tools and materials step 1.
Then extend it across the post from one vertical edge to the other.
If needed use a clamp to get the board lined up straight and even with existing column and to get it snug onto the 6 6.
Place glue on one side of the 1 6 s and nail onto the sides of the columns at the top middle and bottom.
Jot down both dimensions on a separate sheet of paper.
This wrap has pre sanded 1 2 in.
Measure the height of the post that you want to surround with your faux column.
How to build faux columns to enclose wrought iron on my patio.
Take some of the work out of remodeling take some of the work out of remodeling your basement by covering your existing 3 in.