Saturday, September 13, 2008

Front ("back") Porch





Tim Davis and Brian Engel, two of the gentleman from Harrison who Steve has had do most of the work on our home, have done our front (really "back") porch on our home. They did a great job bolting/retro-fitting the ledger board for the shed roof to the second story of our home. They also have done a great job fitting the full log structural rafters together in combination with the cedar tongue and groove roof decking for the underside of the roof. They still need to finish the sides of the porch with the railings and spindles attaching to the cedar support posts/newels, and the front steps which will span the full 8 feet of the deck. There are also some little things that need to be finished like the squaring off of the rough sawn cedar fascia boards where the sides meet the front. We will eventually complete a full flagstone paver walkway to the driveway and to the first side entrance door to the garage. For now, we have done a rough laying of 1 ton of flagstone so that they can plan for appropriate heighth for the rise of the stairs.

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