How to Screen in a Porch

Screening in a porch is easy if you have 2 people. The first step is deciding what kind of screen that you want. There is vinyl, metal mesh (aluminum or stainless steel ), and fiberglass. Screens also have a UV rating that you might want to take into consideration and how big the mesh is spaced like no see'em screen (This screen I have only ever seen in Florida.) You also have 3 standard colors to choose from Silver, Black and Bronze. It can range from $40 a roll to $400 a roll depending on size and length that you will need. (All prices were compared between Lowes and Home Depot.)

Material List:
Razor Knife 
Nails (Finish or Roofing)
Lath Boards
Hammer
Saw
Screen
Staples 
Staple Gun
Speed Square
Cordless Drill
Drill Bits

My buddy who I helped to remodel his deck decided that he wanted to screen in his porch after we finished the remodel.So we started with the angled portion of the deck. We started by rolling out the length that we need first  and giving and extra foot to a foot and a half extra per side. After getting the section cut and laid out straight, we started at the top where we wanted the screen to be at.Going from the top and working our way down to bottom. We attached the screen by stapling the screen into place where we wanted it to be. As you can see in the middle picture. Now after working the screen was worked into place as you can see by the right and left pictures.

held on by staples

We put our lath boards into place. (I recommend that either finish nails be used to secure the lath board.) Now we started putting the lath boards on the same way that we did the screen. We predrilled all holes so as not to split the wood to the best of our ability. We restreched the screen as we went along to prevent as many wrinkles as possible. So now that we have put our lath boards on we follow them and cut off all excess screen around the lath boards using a razor knife. I repeated this process on the other half of the deck so that we had everything as uniform as possible.

Now that the porch is all screened-in we cleaned up our mess put away our tools.