A little backstory and more details on a project featured on my portfolio page.
My clients in this case purchased a house from sellers who clearly had a medium-sized animal that they wanted to have easy access in and out of the house to the backyard. That entailed more than just a “doggie” door built into the backdoor since the backdoor opened to a fully screened-in porch.
An entire lower section of the screened-in porch was opened up most of the time and had a set of wooden steps down to the backyard. The thing is, that big hole largely defeated the purpose of the screened-in porch since now not only bugs could come right in but so could larger animals that they probably didn’t want.
So, it was time for a little porch repair to make the porch “whole” again. After removing the frame for the hole and the framing that connected it to the rest of the porch, we then set about cutting some lower decorative pieces plus new framing to match the rest of the porch. This also meant we had to remove the exterior casing pieces to place a screen in.
The decorative down pieces also required some beveling at the bottom, mostly for aesthetics as the finished edge tapers down into the framing crosspieces below. It doesn’t really show up in these pictures but required a moment of creativity on the miter saw.
Then came time to get everything into place. I removed the outside stairs, which were well-built and I’m sure the previous owner’s pet got lots of time up and down them, but at this point they were in the way and would not be used anymore.
I measured everything twice and made sure the client was going to be happy with this before any fastening since this space was a slightly different dimension than other portions of the deck.
Once that was done, two coats of matching outdoor sealing paint were applied. Once that had dried and looked like the rest of the porch, the exterior casing was removed and a new screen attached. The exterior casing was replaced, and the screened-in porch was now once again a screened-in porch.
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