5 Day Weekend Update #15 New Porch!

We left off last weekend looking like this:

So this Wednesday we put up the temporary supports and then began taking down the rest of the porch. Here's the temporary supports:

And down came the porch:

Now to take up the old floor and look at the old floor joists:

Bad News Bears: It's all rotted :(

 At some point someone sistered new joints onto the old ones (look back and see how there's lighter better looking wood alongside the rotted wood) and we ended up reusing some of that wood because it was fine.

It took about 5 minutes to take it all out because it was disintegrated:

New supports going in:

We cantilevered the porch out so that the big columns I envisioned wouldn't hang over the edge:

New supports are bolted into the house:

 Many tools are involved in the making of new supports:

 New joists are all in!:

 My mom and I stained the new flooring in the basement:

It's a semi-transparent stain. I meant to pick a shade with more gray in it, but blue always calls to me:

First new support post is up!:

 Now all 3 are up!:

 Blocking is put in to further support everything and prevent Shaky Floor Syndrome. Here is where we used some of the old but newer old joists:

This shows the pitch of the joists so that water runs off of the floor. Plus it shows the cantilevered overhang because of the large columns:

Flooring is going in!:

We rented the flooring nailer and it came with this silly looking bopper that you need to use with it:

Used a tool that my Dad gave me when I was....10? to cut around the supports:

 All the old flooring that will probably be used as siding for a future chicken coop:

 The columns are wrapped in Tyvek to prevent moisture from leaving them and going into the fancy wood "wrappings" that are going in later. Here is stage 1 of boxing out the columns to look pretty:

 Here's Stage 2:

Stage 3 all wrapped in tar paper:

 Here are things that will be addressed in future weekends-

Stage 4 of the columns: putting on the stone

Stage 5 of the columns: putting in the tapered wood craftsman style tops of the columns

New pretty wood needs to go on the side of the joists to cover up the ugly treated lumber and then the extra flooring needs to be cut off:

 We need to cover up the remnants from the old half wall and put in the railing:

We need to put in a new threshold:

I need to spray paint the silver threshold in my Oil Rubbed Bronze finish spray paint, paint the door surrounds with the exterior white paint, and strip & stain the door:

I need to thank my dad, my mom, my brother, and my brother's girlfriend for giving up so much of their time to help me with this project. THANK YOU!