Thread: Carport post rotted in stirrup

Originally Posted by Sparhawk

I have the same problem starting with the veranda posts on my house (They are load bearing). The house is only 5 years old, would it be covered by the builders warranty or insurance?

You'll find that it will be covered. Builders are required to give a 2 year maintenance warranty + an applicable 'construction' & 'structural' warranty. Not familiar with the regs in Vic though. Ring the Victorian branch of the Master Builders Assoc. They will advise you.

The only reasonable and tradesman like solution to this problem is to cut the concrete and dig out the old styrup and install a new one...yeh its a major deal.
What you do with the post is then up to you..do you replace the post or just keep cutting till you get good wood and install a long styrup.

Its things like this that look relativly inconsequential that end up being major hairy deals.

It comes back to a fundamental failure in the original workmanship.

BTW..no way should there be coach bolts involved, they are not a reliable structrual item.

Anything strucrual in this sort of stuff should be bolted thru and pulled up tight.

cheers

Those stirrups are pretty heavily galvanised but you won't know what shape it's in unless you dig it out of the concrete. Personally I always preferred stirrups that bolt down to the concrete with a leg that puts the post up out of harm's way of any water. It never made any sense to me to take a product designed to keep the posts dry and stuff it down into the concrete.

I would chisel out the existing stirrup, repair the hole with a concrete patching product, let it cure and then replace or trim the post and bolt a new stirrup to the concrete. A galvanised dynabolt or ankascrew would be more than adequate, and a through bolt to pin in the new post to finish the job.