Bang! Bang! Screee! Bang!
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Construction has finally begun on our new screen porch. I can't wait to be sitting out there enjoying it.
Here's a rough sketch I did. The screens may end up going down to the floor, though. Stairs will come down more or less toward the viewer off the 6' x 6' platform.
Here's the way it looked a few minutes ago.
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So when is the "porch warming party"?
(I have missed TT's new home but what I really miss is that I missed eeva's too!)
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If you want your porch smeeling of feet, farts and ciggies then invite Csaba. But Pete still bears the scars of BaseCamp. I hear even burning his clothes wasn't enough!
Nice Porch. I bet you asked the wife for a Porsche
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@unknownuser said:
If you want your porch smeeling of feet, farts and ciggies then invite Csaba. But Pete still bears the scars of BaseCamp. I hear even burning his clothes wasn't enough!
And you are planning to visit me in weeks!
Okay, I will be sparing my socks for you from now on...
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Don't you worry I've a few party tricks lined up for you too
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You guys slay me.
Rich, she said I couldn't have a Porsche. I'm going to put a racing stripe on the porch, though.
When we have the porch warming party you two guys will be invited. If you can't come, just send some good hooch.
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Looks great Dave. What will be under it?
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Nice!
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Dave:
I kind of like the idea of the solid wall at the bottom as you have it, now. Seems more substantial and sturdy. Maybe if you just gotta have more transparency, you could let in a 2x12 band into the studs a little above the floor? Just a crazy idea. -
Thank you, gentlemen.
Mike, we'll probably end up storing our small utililty trailer under there but hopefully not much more. In the winter we may store some of the furniture from the porch to keep the sun off it. In the summer the two large maple trees will cast a lot of shade on the porch.
Tim, by code we have to have a rigid rail at 36" from the floor. My thought was to use a cable rail system between that rail and the low knee wall. We've changed our minds on that because of some requirements for using the cable. I think we'll end up with a slightly lower wall and some sort of rigid bars between the wall and the top rail.
I really was hoping to get that look of the front screen porches that were common on a lot of the old bungalows. Like this:
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From last night.
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On the plus side, your HVAC condenser will have a little shelter, may not have to work so hard
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That's true. And we're almost getting another garage stall.
We'll put up some of that lattice stuff so the neighbors down't have to look at the stuff we keep under there.I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch of a morning drinking my coffee and reading SCF.
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So I've missed a few updates in case anyone was interested. Here's a few current pictures.
Needs a little landscaping work and some stain on the cedar.
We also need to do something with the rock underneath and get the utility trailer stored under there.
The interior is yet to be finished. White-painted bead board on the ceiling, car siding on the walls. The floor needs some sort of waterproof surface but we have yet to figure it out for sure.
8' wide sliding door was installed on Friday. Boy is that nice compared to the old door.
I've already been spending a lot of time out there when I can. It's nice to sit out there in the mornings and evenings for sure.
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That addition really worked out well. I LIKE that stair. Way to go, Dave.
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Thanks Tim. I like the stairs too. I'm glad we were able to use the spindles horizontally instead of vertically. It leaves those rails in the windows more open looking. Of course I didn't want vertical spindles on the rails and horizontal in the openings so I think it all turned out pretty sharp.
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It looks good!
Could you spec the glass for the windows so it didn't need guarding internally ?In the UK in domestic buildings or those frequented by children under 5, you are not allowed gaps >100mm [4"] OR horizontal members in any balustrades - if it might make it 'climbable'.
An over-the-top rule, in my opinion - after all twenty years ago when London had its own separate regs you could see stairs in three-story houses with no balustrades at all!We have harmonized regulations across the EU [NOT!]. In the famous El Tragaluz restaurant in Barcelona I recall seeing a balustrade guarding a story-height drop in the main entrance lobby, which was made from flimsy 1/2" chrome-plated pipe bent in an inverted U, about 6' wide and screwed to the floor at both ends, with a completely open gap unguarded below it! It wobbled wildly if you just touched it, and it would never have stopped anyone falling off! The spiral stairs to the mezzanine area have very wide gaps in the side too! Families with kids visit the place all the time but I don't ever recall any fatalities... It is a great restaurant - with a giant sliding glass-roof [traga=roof+luz=light] - it's recommended [pre-book!]...
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We could have used glass plates but they were cost-prohibitive for us. The spindles meet the code for spacing but we won't mention the climbable part to the local inspector. No need to add more regs. Besides, I've had enough of those. The electrical boxes I was required to put in are so deep you can't see the receptacle without you lay on your belly and lift the cover. Then I had to put weather resistant/tamper proof receptacles in the boxes at $5 each instead of the standard sort at $1 each and which I already had from an earlier project.
I think some of the regulations are alright but there's too many.
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