Remodeling Porches Is Easy

Remodeling Porches Is Easy

Remodeling porches can create great benefits for your home. This example from DoItYourself.com shows that you can make more of your outdoors with these fresh-as-air ideas that use paint, stain, and basic carpentry skills to spruce up a plain backyard. Mosquitoes, plus the desire to enjoy spring, summer, and fall relaxing outside, prompted the owners of an Atlanta, Georgia home to transform their back porch from a concrete slab to a screened-in showcase. The decision was simple; the explication wasn't quite so easy.

Though they knew they wanted to screen the existing back patio -- a quadrate of concrete tucked under a roof overhang -- complications arose. The porch needed to blend in with the existing house and still withstand the local insects, high humidity, and scorching summer temperatures. The concrete slab had a itsybitsy drop for rain runoff, so the homeowners had to trim the inside of the frame to fit that slope.

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Here?s a step-by-step of what they did:

1. Cut the paneling. Pre-primed 4x8-foot sheets of beadboard ceiling paneling are cut to fit.

2. Setup the ceiling panels and fan. A nail gun makes quick work of installing ceiling panels and is easier than retention a panel while swinging a hammer. Before all of the paneling is installed, the ceiling is wired for a fan and light. The fan enables the homeowners to keep their porch 8 to 10 degrees cooler than the outdoors, while the light allows the porch to be used at night. One someone held the fan while the other connected the wires then screwed the fan into place. The ceiling's quit trim hides the seams in the paneling.

3. Frame the porch. The 2x4 frame of the homeowners' porch was sized to fit the standard-width screens that were installed later. Crosspieces can be whether nailed directly straight through the vertical braces or toenailed in place.

4. Attach interior paneling. A staple gun secures the interior pine-and-plywood beadboard paneling. Though the panels are level across the top, they had to be trimmed at the bottom to succeed the uneven concrete floor, which slopes to adapt rain runoff.

5. Attach and level outside paneling. The hardboard outside panels are added one at a time, from the bottom up. The builders custom-cut the first one to succeed the bumpy ground line. It took some institution tries to get the paint the same tone of pale yellow as the weathered version on the house. The weather-resistant outside paint requires only a washing with soap and water to voice its color.

6. quit off the screen. Vinyl grids are screwed directly into the wooden frame. The screens attach to the channels in these grids, creating a stapleless facility for fiberglass or aluminum screens. Once the screens are rolled into the grid channels using a spline, excess screen is simply trimmed off. A mallet snaps the caps over the vinyl channels and locks the screens in place.

Remodeling Porches Is Easy

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