In this video, I'm continuing the Home Improvement video series by installing new 6x6 Ok ths not so much BASE is installed at the bottom of the base for motherboard気 Kutting the 6x6 was tricky in the fact that they amounts to flip it again to trim it up where I made the cut. This was probably the most crucial part of the entire project because if I cut any one column the wrong length it just wasn't going to work so what I did was I measured each existing column one by one and then transferred those measurements to the new column and then cut it. This way I was sure to not cut one too short. When it came time to install the new column I first had to use a floor jack and a support post to jack up the porch. Now this support post I had to cut to a certain length and that was just because I had to take in consideration the amount of the distance from the floor up to where the support post is going to sit on the jack and the distance between that jack and where it was going to make contact with the overhang of the porch. These situations are going to be a little bit different but just make sure you jack up the porch just enough that that old column will move a little bit and the way that I removed these columns was just cut the old column in half with a reciprocating saw. I cut a little bit of the way through it and then I checked the support column just to make sure I didn't vibrate anything loose and just a double check because I am working on the corner of the porch. I don't want this thing to fall so I made sure that everything was still secure and then I continued on with the rest of the cut. Once I cut this old column in half that gave me plenty of wiggle room to go ahead and remove the remainder of that column and it just came out really easy. Just a couple of nails holding this in place. I just pulled out and then I had to remove a nail with a hammer which was not a big deal. What's this center column right here? Did you see that move? I'm jacking this up enough to get this new column in place but that previous column that had just installed moved a little bit. I know that I'm jacking this up and you don't want to jack it up too high and cause disruption in some of the structure or the trusses or anything like that. It's just enough to get that new column in place and so I just took my mallet and persuaded it just a little bit and got it where I wanted it and then once I got it to where I thought it was good I made sure it was level and I did this by a couple of different ways. Of course I used to level but also walked around like got some distance away from the house and kind of lined up the edge of that pose with the edge of the house to see if it was straight and looking at the other columns so that's how I kind of lined everything up and then once I got everything in place I could let the jack down. Now I also had to install two half columns. Taking the old columns off wasn't a big deal. I just had to pry it away from the wall, clean up where the paint had built up and removed some of the nails so it's not a big deal for that. Now cutting this last new column in half was a different story. I tried a couple different ways at first without any luck before deciding that the circular saw was just going to be my best bet. Now if I had a beam saw that would have been my choice but I didn't have one. Looking back on the project I probably should have looked into either renting one or just buying one because this was a job. I don't think I ever said what kind of wood I'm using but I'm using a treated pine and it was hard to cut. I guess because it's just the mass there and also being treated it just made for a difficult cut with this circular saw. And especially since I was cutting lengthwise times two so but as you saw I started by finding the center of this column and then popping a chalk line and that just gave me a line to follow with my circular saw and then I flipped the column over and did the exact same thing. Now because my circular saw couldn't cut to the metal of this column there was a little bit more material to cut to actually make two pieces. So I had to finish it off somehow so I got a reciprocating saw and just went to town on it now. I had to actually put a little bit of elbow grease into this to actually get it cut all the way through with that reciprocating saw but I made it work. It happened and so if I had to do it all over again I would look for a different way to do this. I would probably look for a beam saw or somebody with a pretty big bandsaw to help me cut this into. Now once I had the column into two pieces I just cleaned it up with my electric planer and that worked just fine. And so once I had that finished I could cut this column to length and so I wanted it off the ground just a little bit so I left just a little bit off the floor because it's going to be screwed to the wall. It didn't need a column base here. So I went ahead and started my screws into the column and just made sure that I was going to be screwing into part of the framing or part of the structure of the house and not just siding. And so I've got this corner piece on my house that was solid wood so that's not going to be an issue here but I did use I think three three and a half inch screws just to be safe and I used about six screws on this. So once I got the screws started into place I held the column up on the wall and started one and then that way once I had one I could pivot on that one screw get it level and then just finish tacking it into place. So what really really easy easier than I expected and it looked really really good. I was very pleased with how the columns came out I like the contrast with the color of the house and how well the shutters actually matched. I have a couple more projects coming up that will add even more curb appeal to the house so be sure to subscribe and click that little bell icon to be notified of new videos. So I'll be adding landscaping soon so let me know down in the comments if you'd like to see a video on that even though there wouldn't be any woodworking involved. So please check out the links down in the description for the website article where I give you step by step information on this project and as always thanks for watching.