It's Time To Make This Porch Bigger, And Add Some FIRE!

[Dale Moser]

We had our house built in a hurry back with the market and therefore, business...was crappy. I'd had enough of apartment life so we picked a small floorplan from one of my best builders and he made us a heck of a deal to build us a casa. We didn't add anything to the plan as far as size, choosing to upgrade a few things in the kitchen and bath. Blah blah blah....but that meant we got a little scrawny porch too, and it's time to do something about that.



1st we need more concrete.....

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[Michael]

Who is that grown boy walking around with the crew?

Looking good! In for the updates.

[Dale Moser]

That would be the Jefe. That chubby guy draggin that mud leaned over and told him, "this is why you go to la escuela!"

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It got to set up for a week, before the framers showed up.


Day 1, they worked about 4 hrs.

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End of day 2.

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Day 3

[COOLDAD1]

That's going to be nice

[CoolArrow]

Looks good.

[SHSUBearkat]

I like it

[Dale Moser]

Framers, and roofer(framers brother) finished on day 4.

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Things kind of ground to a halt here. Partly because I decided to paint it myself to try and leave a little $$ at the end of the budget for quality patio furniture, and partly because this is where I discovered my framer was great with structural stuff....but his cornish work SUUUUCKED! He got a ration of **** for it but I was already mostly done fixing it, so I didn't make him come back and fix it (he did offer).

I should add here that I DESPISE caulking and painting. HATE it..... Luckily my dad is very good with the painting bit and has a whole bunch of good gear for it. After 3-4 nights of caulking and fixing the framers screw ups and caulking some more, dad rolled up saturday morning with the gear and we got everything painted once, and some twice. I put the second coat on everything Sunday, while the Daytona ribs soaked up smoke.

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Tonight I cut holes for lights and got them installed and wired.



Something about that pic makes them look out of line, but they aren't.

I'm going to buy the LED inserts for the cans tomorrow, and 2 ceiling fans with light kits.

[Dale Moser]

We got 2" of rain yesterday, but it's drying up quick....I hope to have the material for the fireplace, and the stone up here Friday. I have to go out of town this weekend, so there won't be any progress until next week.

[Dale Moser]

Somewhere along the way Pinterest gave my wife an idea for a coffee/card/eatin table to go in front of the fireplace. Her folks in Louisianna had a monster long leaf pine tree taken down a few years ago, and her dad had it all rough milled for 1X lumber. We brought some back with us a while back and I ripped some down on the table saw, and got my first lesson with the biscuit jointer.