I spent 10 weeks building this deck with hot tub and screened in porch. Not the entire 10 weeks I did several small projects for other customers while building this.
Below is the house before we started on it. The small stoop and overhang proved to be very well built as it did not come down as easy as we thought it would.
Notice the concrete retaining wall? On the other side of it was an old underground oil tank. We checked out getting the tankpulled out and cleaned up and it would have cost more than $3000. Instead we had an engineer redesign the structure under the hot tub and move the footers. The oil tank had the proper papers proving it was purged and taken care of properly.
Here is the finished porch! It has a flat 10 foot high cedar T&G cedar ceiling and the finished size is 14 ft x 14 ft. The roof only has a 1/4 inch per foot slope so it fit well onto the side of the house.
Notice the jeep under the deck, we installed a product called Rain Escape with a special plastic sheets installed over the floor joists that bring the water to the under the deck downspouts under each row of floor joists and the downspouts drop the water into a gutter to keep the jeep dry under the deck. This Rain Escape system is not cheap but it works well.
Note the stair lighting to be installed by the home owner, this will create soft lighting when they are enjoying the hot tub!
Here you can see the stoop ceiling, the light is still on order.
This photo shows the cedar ceiling with the drop down portion that connects the lower attached stoop roof. All during the job I wondered how we would made this area look good. You can also see the brown venting we installed in the ceiling as the ceiling is not open to the eaves and here in our area venting the ceiling is a very good idea and needed to pass code.
1/2 inch commercial grade copper in the railings, expensive yet a sweet touch. Copper went up 50% since I quoted the job.
The cat door what porch would be complete without one.
Very nice! I like the catdoor touch, built right in to fit!
You do very nice work. I’m impressed. I’d love to have a screened porch on the back of the house. It just doesn’t work out the way it’s built. I love the copper.
Seems a very elegant and practical design, and fits very well with the foresty surroundings. Nice work mate!