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I am working on a older home and the back porch has a roof
"supported" by decrative wrought iron post. Right now one of them is
rusted at the bottom so it is hanging from the roof. It is over a
concrete pad.

I had two ideas:

* Use a few steel angles securing one leg to the concrete pad and the
other to the post.

* Build a from and pour a new concrete box around the bottom of the
post making sure I somehow key that block to the existing concrete
pad.

Any comments or suggestions.

Yea, I am trying keep the price and work to a minumum.


Thanks

When I paid a wrought iron welder to do a repair like this for me he came
with metal plates for the base and tubing that was one size larger than the
existing.

He cut off all the rot, slipped his new tube over the old, welded it and
that to the base which he drilled and pinned to the slab.

Your solutions sound like they might also work.

Let us know what you do and how it works.



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Colbyt
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