Saturday, March 17, 2012

Porch Crashers

One of the main concerns of any insurance company we have talked to has been the exterior condition.
The porch, the siding, the roof.

Roof and siding were our main concerns as well.  The porch was more like an after thought.

More phone calls lead to more concerns with the porch.  Seeing the picture below, I can't even blame them.


While we wait on material for the other 'major' concerns, David decided to start on the porch.

Our latest warming trend here in the Upper Peninsula as well as extra evening hours thanks to Daylight Savings Time, gave the boys incentive to crash the porch.

Stage 1:  Remove the bushes.



 Stage 2:  Remove the crumbling concrete porch.


Stage 3:  Remove the crumbling concrete/wood pillars



Stage 4:  Treated posts now support our porch. 





On to the side porch.

If you see that door on the right of this picture.
It is a little enclosed porch in poor shape.




Structurally it was a mess.

So off it came.

Thursday, the boys spent the evening tearing it off.
Today, David is there cleaning up the mess, and digging out the lilac bush.

I picture a new side deck already.

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