porch Photo Gallery by roxanneboscobel at pbase.com

pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ALL

The Before Picture	Taking apart the fence	Taking apart the dog door house	Argh!!
The old dryer exhaust	The dog door house is gone!	Dumpster is delivered	Dumping the dumpster
There it goes!	Wow it sure is red!	Materials are delivered	Carefully counting the materials
Relocating the fence post	Under the door	The old exhaust vent	The relocated fence!! Nice!!!
Digging the holes for the footers	How he measures the holes for the footers	Carefully wrapped materials!	More materials in the carport
Carefully wrapped materials and tools	Day two	Yikes, what a noise!	Taking off the sill for the most part
the view from the basement to show placement of the lag bolt holes	placing the ledger and drilling holes into the basement	Little piece of ledger to the right of the door	They used a long tube filled with water for the level
cleaning off the siding	working working	One of five footer holes	Layout of the deck
Its starting!	Joist hanger used against house	Showing the piece under the door	The ledger for the open deck portion
Connecting the two	under the door	the end of the deck/carport	Hanging the main beam
beam placement	Making it level	Hanging joists!!	Very exciting!
16" on center	Standing in the hole to place the support	bolted in place	from the other side
drilling	Adding the other ledger	Doubling up the joists on the end	Outside ledger
Triple joist in the middle of the deck where the porch wall will be	Doubling up the joist on the other wall of the porch	aligning the posts	Adding the cross braces
What a tedious job!	Working working	Cross braces in place	Putting in sleepers
from other angle	Sleepers	Liquid nailed to the patio	Inspector inspecting
Pouring the footers	Freshly poured footer	Drying out!	Cutting into the eaves for the porch posts
Cutting into the eaves	The left cut	The right cut	Sawing in the carport
The first wall is up!!!!!	How it joins into the eave cut	How it joins at the bottom	Left outside corner top
Left outside corner bottom	Putting together the door header	The second wall is up!	Putting up the third wall!
Covered for over night!	From the diningroom door looking right	Header over the screen door	Looking Left from the diningroom door
Right outer joint	Getting the roof ready	Roof stripped and prepared	Preparing the beam
Amid much yelling and grunting, the beam goes up	Aligning the beam just so	The beam aligned	Building the scaffolding
The beam is laid on a larger board	The hangers on the rafters	Rafters go up	This will be the exposed end
The fascia board	Putting on the roof plywood	Detail on the exposed end	Inside looking up
How the roof plywood is butted together with little clips	The second cut into the eaves on the left side	Second cut into the eaves on the right side	The rest of the rafters go in
Rafters measured, cut, and placed	Showing the hangers in place on the rafters	The rest of the rafters in!	Showing how they are cut o the roof line
More plywood	Looking at the roof joints	How the rafters are cut on the right side	We have tar paper!!!!!
Now you can see the construction better	New roof joint	Joining into the roof	The other roof joint
At the point of where the roofs meet	e.jpg	Side view of this connection	Where the roofers yanked the screws out
Also where the screw was yanked out	They put in tar but damaged the shingle	New roof on porch	Another view of the roof joint
With the new roof on it	A nighttime visitor to the porch	The straps supporting the open deck portion	Another strap -- total of 3
The shelf-like boards on top of the chair rail	Showing the straps that hold the rafters down	Putting up the eaves	Putting up the eaves
Cut away the end of the beam and put up eaves	Joining the two joist boards	Joining the two joist boards	Temporary supports reinstalled
Temporary supports reinstalled	Temporary supports reinstalled	Digging hole for one of three footers at the back of the deck	The hole for the new footer on the other side of the porch
New footer under one side of the porch	Its a gusher!!	What a downpour!	Right after this lightening struck really close, so I ran inside!
Digging thru the concrete in the rain	Always fun to work in the rain	No wonder they had to dig for so long; look how thick the concrete is!	The other hole shows the concrete thickness too
The new post in the middle of one side of the porch	Other side of the same post	New post on the other side	The screen
How the decking is attached	Fitting the screens	New footer hole	With concrete
Other new one with concrete	Getting close to completion	Fitting the decking	Header over installed porch door
Building the supports for the ceiling	Temporarily closing in over the door	This board is screwed on so the electrician can access it	Boy, that really is a white door......
Looks like summer camp!	The dumpster finally leaves p.u.!!!	Cutting for the skylights	Cutting still for the skylights
Wow, look at that light!!!!	The holes on the outside	Fortunately, these are the same guys who put the roof on....	Fitting the skylights
First one in place!	Laying down the flashing	Showing the flashing	More flashing we must have more flashing
From the inside	From the outside	Here's the flashing kit	Nearly Done!
Gutter with connector	Nice hole in the screen	The offending connector	The window is gone!
Everything is out of the wall!	Cleaning out the wall	Taking the wall down	The fans are up!
The old header	New outlet	Getting the fit	Upper right
Upper left	Bottom left	Bottom right	Wow, look at that!!
Hoist!	Its a door!	Layout out the ramp	Still laying out the ramp
How the rampy part is connected	Finishing touches to the ceiling	Ramp framing	Moulding on the ceiling
Building the ramp	Ramp support	Other ramp support	Looking good!
Putting on fascia	Carolina wren nest in the basket and soffit	Siding around sliding glass door	Cement walkway from ramp to carport
smoothing out cement	Nice!	Sealing the one side of the porch against the siding	The last day leaving --- Byeeeeee!
Isn't that cute???	Inside looking to door	Looking back where I was just standing	See where I hung the metal deer head?
My new fave place to read!	All done -- isn't it beautiful!?!?!?!

pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ALL

comment |

Guest		28-Sep-2004 18:45
WOWWWWWIEEEE. How nice!

click on thumbnails for full image

Type your message and click Add Comment

It is best to login or register first but you may post as a guest. Enter an optional name and contact email address. Name
Name Email
help	private comment