Now that my porch has been rebuilt (and reconfigured), and the roof extended over the additional porch section, I'm thinking of trying to enclose it for the winter. The left side would be challenging, and isn'at as much of a worry - so I am mainly going for that front part in the picture. Just enough to keep snow from blowing in and mitigate some of the wind, so I'm not trying to make it a 3-season room, and won't be weather sealing the base or anything. In fact, I am good with just going from below the roof to the top of the railing. That would also help with keeping the snow from curling down from the metal roof and trying to dump onto the porch (I usually just knock it off with a snow shovel). Again, this would be temporary - just for the winter months. Looking for suggestions on how to get that done while retaining the view and any solar gain thru the windows of the house (ie, clear). And oh, by the way, it's not like I'm a carpenter or anything, so it needs to be easy and with light materials so that I can do it myself (over 60 female at 130# - so not going to be lifting heavy stuff up there). Oh, and hey, it would be nice if the same system allowed me to swap in weather proof shades in the summer to keep out the solar gain. Yes, I have indoor shades over the door and windows, but the siding heats up quite a bit, which transfers heat inside. I know I'm demanding on my requirements, but you all are creative so figured I would ask.
I like the stairs to nowhere look. We have a more permanent solution for our screenhouse. Sliding vinyl windows. They work great. Nowhere near temporary, however. There's other suppliers, but ours are similar to - Screen Porch Windows - Amazing EZ-Screen Porch Windows Good luck getting creative!
Could you make light panels out of clear coreboard with a lathe frame and screw and wing nut it to the roof facia and top railing? For the summer you could do the same with what ever you choose for shades. Two panels for the area across from the door and one for the next area.
I'm thinking of those clear poly panels that you attach from/on the inside eliminating ladders as you'd need attaching to the outside. The only possible problem I might see is the "rail". It may possibly protrude inward beyond the beam above. Very little additional "framing" should be required. If you put the same panels on in the same position as they were when you removed them for the summer, you wouldn't need to make new (screw) holes in your pretty new porch doing this annually. Did this make sense?
Yup. Use to for many years. And then my wife decided it was time to upgrade. So I enclosed the entire porch with very large sliding windows. She was right!
I wasn't able to find your thread on that to show BB, would you remember incase she wants to do it too?
Hmmm. I can’t remember if I posted about that or not. You mean the new windows? Or the plastic panels?
BB, I can't find the thread, but it looked like this, only he used it vertical. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Suntuf-...ofing-Panel-in-Clear-101699/100049922#overlay
You know, it might have been your posts, sorry I mixed you up. Is your porch screened and you take the poly carb off in the summer?
Those were the original stair and left underneath when the original owners changed to a back porch and ramp (concrete stairs are circa 1960, ramp was probably some time after the year 2010. I understand why they were left there - expensive to remove, and makes a great base for the porch part without having to dig for concrete to put the posts on (and believe me, they didn't dig very far for what posts were put in for the ramp - didn't have to wonder why the ramp had started listing toward the house). Saw no reason to change having that nice solid base. And hey, it was useful when they removed the old porch/ramp and then it promptly rained for two weeks so they didn't do any further work for a while. Thanks for that link! I started to watch the video but got impatient with the sales pitch at the beginning so will view it later. I don't know why they bore me with that stuff, I'm already at the site so am obviously already interested. But at the same time, if I do something more permanent like that, the taxman cometh and I would prefer to avoid that
What is this "coreboard" you speak of? I tried googling it but got results that are not related. If I attach to the roof facia, I could take it all the way down to the deck portion (which would be good). Are you talking about the corrugated stuff others have mentioned? The area across from the door is 6.5' long, the second area is longer by about a foot (had to drop the height to clear the propane pipe.
Home We have the mosquito curtains for our porch, they are well made. This company also make clear panels.
