A friend of mine is building a replacement wooden porch for a small old cottage in central Scotland. It's about 800mm deep from the house wall, and we are having a discussion on what to bed the bottom timbers on.
It's a simple frame structure of two vertical 100mm square timbers on each side and associated cross pieces so the vertical timbers will be end grain to the bricks/concrete that the present porch is sitting on. The timber is larch. One thinking is pads of hardwood - something like oak.
Thanks for any ideas
Rob