Two Story Porch

Two Story Porch Project

This was a large project to rebuild a two story porch on a late 19th century multi-family building. This building had been converted to Condominiums in the 1980's, and the workmanship was pretty low quality. We renovated a bathroom in one of the units and that led to rebuilding the front porch. It's hard to tell from the "before" photo, but the porch was in a dire state of repair. The roof had been leaking for a while. Two of the columns were completely rotted away, nothing was holding up the porch but the stucco cladding. The porch floors were one one barbecue away from collapsing.

We replaced the roof, built some temporary walls to support it, then completely rebuilt the columns and second floor. We re-decked the porch with tongue and groove fir flooring, enclosed the porch with code compliant half wall/handrails and built new front steps. We took care to install a gutter and drainage system to keep water intrusion from creating future problems.