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Has the post rotted any more.
If the crack in the concrete has not got bigger and you do not want to replace the post you could still fill the joint with cement.

It is not clear if the post did indeed rot anywhere actually. All I can see personally at least is a crack in the cement leading from the post out. Somebody (Cutlass?) told me that the post is probably in the cement and it expanded and contracted over the years and lead to the crack, and that it shouldn't have been embedded in the cement. But I could be misremembering everything of course.

The crack has not gotten much bigger at all, but people tell me filling it in with cement won't really fix the underlying issue - so if this thing is bound to fall off (the crack runs diagonally) then I will want to prevent that instead of just making it look nice.

The same thing happened to my neighbour and he bought cement, new post, and did all the work himself. But it doesn't look perfect and you can tell where he put down the cement (i.e. the whole corner).

I have even less experience than my neighbour wrt cement work so I assume my work would be even more visible. So I have been putting this off I suppose
 
How bout a picture or two?
 
Not sure what concrete glue is .
Concrete is no good for filling a crack that narrow. Concrete consists of cement, aggregate and water and sometimes chemicals.
Aggregate will not fit down warpus's crack. It has to be filled by cement (cheap) or chemicals (polyester resin would be best (but not worth the cost) or epoxy etc).

My earlier post

Spoiler :

This is what I had in mind:

https://www.quikrete.com/pdfs/data_sheet-polyurethane construction adhesive 9902-10.pdf

It will fill the gap (to keep water out and future freezing expansion) and hold things in place. Wait for a nice warm, dry day; blow out the crack with compressed air or a hair dryer and follow the instructions (fill the gap). Less than $10.
 
@Birdjaguar that may well work to seal the crack.

Does it have a low enough viscosity to run down into the crack and so remove the space for water to expand. Bearing in mind that water will be flowing upwards in a hard winter.
 
I couldn't say, but blowing out the crack will help flow. Then using a wire to force things deeper might be next. You cannot tell until you get into the job. Warming things up might also help. If the crack is deep, you could fill the depths with something else that flow way down and then top fill the last few inches with the adhesive. As i see it, the goal is to fill the crack, to keep water out and to glue the edges together to keep it from getting bigger. In addition, i would put a flower pot on the corner piece so folks don't step on the corner piece. No reason add pressure to the crack.
 
With cement which is slow setting (45 mins to 9hours) and it is still weak the next day you do have the option to bag it in to improve the colour match
 
I have very very little experience in trades and my only background is in liberal arts and accounting, both of which aren't helping me at the slightest. Lately I've been pondering on making a career change (if you can call it that when one's career has their tires spinning stationary for the past decade) to get a better life for myself and to escape the monotony of low wage jobs and retail hell.

Are there any pathways for me to enter into a trades when there's very little resources in my area (I place blame on my state's education department placing a huge emphasis on a college education and shunning trade schools and apprenticeship programs)? I know this is a building trades professional, but I'm looking for a direction to go to since I've been lately interested in electrical work (Both in the micro level with electronics and the macro level with electrical wiring).
 
I have very very little experience in trades and my only background is in liberal arts and accounting, both of which aren't helping me at the slightest. Lately I've been pondering on making a career change (if you can call it that when one's career has their tires spinning stationary for the past decade) to get a better life for myself and to escape the monotony of low wage jobs and retail hell.

Are there any pathways for me to enter into a trades when there's very little resources in my area (I place blame on my state's education department placing a huge emphasis on a college education and shunning trade schools and apprenticeship programs)? I know this is a building trades professional, but I'm looking for a direction to go to since I've been lately interested in electrical work (Both in the micro level with electronics and the macro level with electrical wiring).


If you want to become an electrician, you have to go to a trade school. And that's going to be expensive. And then you have to do an apprenticeship. Which will take a lot of time, and can be difficult to get your foot in the door. It's doable. But it's a big commitment. The up side is that once you're licensed, many years from now, you'll be in demand and have a solid income.
 
If you want to become an electrician, you have to go to a trade school. And that's going to be expensive. And then you have to do an apprenticeship. Which will take a lot of time, and can be difficult to get your foot in the door. It's doable. But it's a big commitment. The up side is that once you're licensed, many years from now, you'll be in demand and have a solid income.
Is that only solely going into your own way like a contractor? Since the pathway I'm more or less embarking is more in terms within the manufacturing sector in a plant. I don't have any interest on becoming an independent contractor.
 
Is that only solely going into your own way like a contractor? Since the pathway I'm more or less embarking is more in terms within the manufacturing sector in a plant. I don't have any interest on becoming an independent contractor.


Then you'll have to ask the company what their requirements are. A building contractor will subcontract out the electrical work to a firm which has one or more master electricians and a bunch of helpers. But the helpers still have to know most of the job. Someplace like Electric Boat, their rules probably require a minimum of a trade school certificate.
 
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