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Cedar wrapped porch beams.
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Your beams may be engineered wood and the columns fir.
Use a circular saw miter saw or portable table saw to trim a single long board into identical sections.
Often times butt corners are used rather than mitered corners to wrap beams and columns.
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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.
Wrapping the structural lumber is the better approach for support and continuity.
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We buy an appearance grade cedar still big hunkin beams that can hold some load but you don t want to build a house on it.
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If the beams and columns are load bearing then cedar will not do the job.
Faux wood beams and our other interior and exterior products will make your home look great without costing a lot of money.
One way to upgrade the look of your porch is to wrap your ordinary porch posts with cedar cladding.
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It has structural qualities however we do not grade for that.
Cut 6 pieces of 1 in 2 5 cm thick wood to the width of your posts.
2 and better western red cedar lumber is a knotty grade that meets appearance requirements.
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