Prepare Wood for Arch Posts

We're getting ready to start our our hanging chair arch So what I've done because we want to cover this all with decorators We're gonna use the dark slate So it matches some of the details on the deck and to make that work the best We've decided to use essentially a two by eight, but we have ripped down two by ten because that's what we had So I've ripped it down to seven and one eight So it's a little bit short and what we're gonna do is have a seven and a quarter on this side seven and a quarter on this side That equals three plus one plus one that's five and then we'll have a five and a half on these side Covering that up and it'll leave us with about a quarter inch reveal It's gonna look really beautiful But because we're using dimensional lumber and not a six by six or whatever we are just staining and sealing All of the parts that are going to be embedded in the concrete So we've stained the bottom four feet really getting it in that rip really good, right because water is bad Bingo, so we got these gonna be sealed up real nice We're like gooped it on there good. We got the holes gone. We'll set them. It's gonna be cool We'll be swinging in no time