Alright guys and gals I'm a rookie at this carpenter stuff and this has been the biggest job to date. I am having to rebuild the porch on the home place and here are the pictures of the first 15 feet. I'm starting on the section that is used the least. Anyway, I'm using two 2x8's as the outer perimeter (porch sill?) part and the actual boards are 5/4x6. I'm only using treated wood. I made sure the outer edge of the porch is lower than the end against the house and so far the hardest part has been putting the columns back into place. As you can see in the pictures the bottoms is gone in some of the columns. My plans are to come up with some kind of base (something easy to replace) for the columns and then cut them off back to good wood. I may even replace the corner post that is shown in the picture.
Any comments/suggestions are appreciated
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01-18-2010, 08:51 PM
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