David -

I wasn't intimating that Brace Mortise wettings were the most common form of Post failure, just that it is not all that uncommon.

Often when it is an issue, the outside faces appear sound and the only telltales are water-stains and fungus in the area of the Brace to Post connections.

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges" - Isaac Newton

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