New Front Porch

[Mick_VT]

Hi All,
Made quite a bit of progress on the porch rebuild. Any one have a suggestion on a good filler to use that can be painted over?

Those are great pics of the tree and house.

There is a woodfiller at your Lowes Depot store that is very similar to "Bondo" for auto body work, comes with hardener, in fact I am pretty sure it is Bondo. Says right there that it adheres to metal and fiberglass. If you need a lot it may be cheaper to buy bondo at an auto store.

I used it to fill in some rough areas on my porch.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Minwax-High-Pe ... /999916297

I can confirm that bondo works extremely well as an exterior wood filler. I used it in several places about seven years ago and it is still holding strong

[Chadzeilenga]

Thanks all for the advice on filler material.

I have the porch base done and next step is to repair the rotted post. Any suggestions on how to repair this bottom?

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[Texas_Ranger]

Cut off and do a pegged lap joint. That's not worth saving!

[Mick_VT]

+1 on that, also get a galvanized post stand-off to lift it from the deck to stop it wicking up the moisture. You can then cover the stand-off (that might be the wrong term) with a pressure treated base molding. You can also use one of these instead of galvanized if you prefer. Basicly it just lifts the post up so standing water doesnt creep in

[Texas_Ranger]

Cut off and do a pegged lap joint. That's not worth saving!
+1 on that, also get a galvanized post stand-off to lift it from the deck to stop it wicking up the moisture. You can then cover the stand-off (that might be the wrong term) with a pressure treated base molding

What on earth is going on here?!? Someone managed to write into my post! What kind of crazy bug is that?

[Lily left the valley]

It may be that any mod of this forum can edit posts (as part of moderator duties, not anything nefarious), and a mod may have accidentally clicked edit instead of quote and didn't realize it before they submitted their post.

[Mick_VT]

Cut off and do a pegged lap joint. That's not worth saving!
+1 on that, also get a galvanized post stand-off to lift it from the deck to stop it wicking up the moisture. You can then cover the stand-off (that might be the wrong term) with a pressure treated base molding

What on earth is going on here?!? Someone managed to write into my post! What kind of crazy bug is that?

My bad Texas, I apparently did exactly what Lily speculated! I fixed it

[Lily left the valley]

As an admin/mod on other forums...been there, done this!

[phil]

I used it to plug up some knot holes in otherwise good boards for the risers on my outdor stairs. i also found that if I used the red catalist the color worked out just right.
what I do is drive some screws in the knot holes at an angle so the heads are protruding into the hole, then the filler couldn't fall out if it wanted to.

[Chadzeilenga]

Pegged lap joint, I'll have to read up on that. I'm assuming that the dimensions of the original post won't match up with current lumber dimensions.