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Can you buy pre-fabricated uprights? Might be worth propping the porch up and replacing the whole lot.
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Possibly, but that might involve a level of joinery and risk of collapse that is beyond me. I've grown more comfortable with the patch, maintain and monitor approach. And if it comes to it, get a grown up in to replace. The initial approach is £40 and a bit of time (as @hugo7 says) in a way that can be done around childcare responsibility.
stevo_com
Attentions now turn to the porch. The worst parts are the bases of the two uprights, which the previous owner ignored by sticking some mitred skirting around them. The porch as a whole feels solid, there's no movement, so I'm sure there's a core of decent wood in there. Question is what to do? Remove loose bits, wood hardener then build out with filler, sand and paint?