You then can fill the gap at the top of the column with little steel shims you buy at the lumber yard. By the way, I sometimes see wooden porch-support columns with a gap at the bottom.

How would you provide temporary support to the house ... to repair failing decorative iron columns and short, stubby brick pillars that are part of a front porch on a home that’s about 100 ...

Manufacturing decorative porch columns can be a very profitable business once established, especially if the main focus of the manufacturing business is to design and build Victorian porch column ...

DEAR TIM: My relatives want to repair failing decorative iron columns ... a temporary support system. You’d be stunned by the weight of the second story that overhangs the porch.

that provides these kinds of columns. But that made me wonder, what was their value, and do we need to reinstall them? Chris D. Craiker AIA/NCARB always enjoys a front porch that has a swing and a ...