Every home in needs a front porch....don't they??

Every home in East Tennessee needs a front porch....if for nothing else a refrig....ROTFL. SO, I posted earlier when they dug the footers and poured them and we are off and running....


Before we actually started with the front porch we hauled in about 8 loads of dirt to level up the ground under the porch. There is a railing code for the porch, if we can keep the top of the porch under 30 inches we will not need to have any railing.


The porch is a standard boring 2x12 pressure treated floor joist using hangers brackets on 16 inch centers....YAWN.....the problem is making the amigo understand how it needs to be built......


Their skills with concrete is way above normal and once they know how it should look....well off they go and we have not had any problems with the workmenship.
Re-bar is put inside the block cells and before being poured solid with concrete.


Steel studs we used to form the columns and then backer boards covered the studding frames......


Then the rockers showed up and attached their wire grid over the backer board and a layer of mud and they were ready to rock........I still find it interesting that they mix the mud by hand instead of using a cement mixer I bought back last year.


So you find you have a hard time picking out a winning trade....try picking out the next piece in this mess.......


Even on a day when it was foggy.....the rockers just kept on setting stone......


In two weeks we went from holes in the ground to columns of stone......now where are the timber at for the post and beam roof system......