Just started painting mother in laws 1930's house and discovered the wooden posts supporting the porch over the front door have completely rotted at the base where they are set into holes in the brick 3 foot high side walls.
I'm wondering what to do next (having quickly propped it with lumps of timber).
Demolish and bulid new porch would be the buliders answer? I know she does not want that.
The posts disappear into the structure of the tiled porch, so I can't see how to easily remove and replace the whole supporting beam. Would cutting away the base six inches and filling with joined wood be a reasonable approach?