Hi all I 'm back with more pics, descriptions and instructions on what we have done to the deck and how we did it. So we put the flooring down first, then started with getting our measurements for the hand rail. We want the hand rail to be the same height as the current handrail.
Now as you can see we laid the floor so that we had a solid surface to work on. You can't see it but there is a bottom plate behind the bottom 2x4 in the pictures. After the bottom plate was put down I measured from the top of the bottom plate to the bottom of the top plate on the old deck so that I knew how long to make my supports. (In the picture on the left you can see the 2 center supports are 4x4's that is because my Buddy likes to do overkill on some things.) Now after the supports are in we put (2) 2x4s in. One on top and one on bottom.
As you can see in the right hand pic, we used old deck boards as a face on the deck so with everything lined up and ready to go, we started to put the face boards on. We started on the corner and worked in, because he wanted the rip where we connected the two porches together.
Some people are wondering why he's using old deck boards, it's because he likes the weathered look and it saves some money because they were free. After the front was finished, we started on the back or far left side. We measured the door going in and found the that near the house was the best place. So we framed up for the door and because it is a porch, we did not frame it like a house.We also made the hand rail the same height as the rest of the porch.We have finished the framing and face boards, so here are pic's of what the finished deck looks like.
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