A couple years ago we built my 'dream porch' off the living room. It is 30 feet long and 6 feet or so wide. We still have to build the ends of the porch but that will be for a later time. (When we get some spare cash for building materials!). The wood is treated lumber, and supposedly a person needs to let it age at least 6 months before painting. Well, it aged about 2 years! Better late than never, eh? I had hoped to get it painted last summer, but it seemed like the weather never cooperated - either too hot or too rainy. But this week, the weather was just perfect for painting, so we went gung-ho on the project.
Here is the "before":
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| Before painting: a little excess lumber to get put away, and other stuff. |
The porch is off the living room at the back of the house:
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| We still need to build the end railings. We would have used the typical plastic porch railing sections, but those things are very expensive. The cost for our 30 foot porch was beyond our budget to use pre-built railing sections. The lumber to build the railing and our own work, made the porch railing about half the cost of the pre-built stuff. |
Since the porch is quite high, painting the outside of the railings required some kind of scaffolding (which we didn't have). So Harold used his tractor/loader and lifted the bucket to the height needed, then stepped onto the bucket from a tall ladder.
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| Harold stood on the bucket of the tractor and painted the outside, while I painted the inside railing. He kept moving the tractor as needed. |
So we finally got the railings painted:
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| The first railing section painted. |
After painting all the railing sections, it was time to do the floor. We pressure washed the floor and let it dry while we ran errands in town.
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| The railing finished, and floor section pressure washed clean. |
And the finished project:
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| What a difference! The porch is painted! Now, all I need is some new porch furniture! |
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