How to Fix a Damaged Porch on a 100-Year-Old House
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Jill F
(IC: blogger)
Our home is over 100 years old and has the wear and tear to prove it! We've been updating it for 18 years now - mostly on the inside. This summer we worked a bit on some outside projects, and this porch makeover made such a huge difference in the appearance of the house. The sagging roof, old shingles and crooked, broken concrete were such an eyesore. When the hard winter caused the concrete to crack completely in half and become unstable it escalated to a safety issue and it was time to make a remodel a priority.
Almost didn't get a before - my husband had already added the prop here so he could jack the porch roof up and make it straight again.
When the freezing and thawing caused the concrete to crack all the way across the one side would move when stepped on - not safe anymore!
The years of eroding away beneath the porch caused the instability when the concrete cracked in two.
Old concrete was completely removed and hauled away.
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Published August 11th, 2015 10:06 AM
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Jill F on Dec 08, 2015yes the walls were old lathe and plaster. and they were horrid - not a good lath and plaster job! It was backbreaking work removing it but we are so glad we did. We used sheetrock as the new walls. We started this house long before I was blogging so I don't have good before pics. I really wish I did, but I just don't. Now the outside I will get some before shots of before we put siding on. I so hope we can do something besides vinyl but in the end the cost may be the deciding factor - especially since we don't really plan to stay here forever and I'm not sure we can get our money out of the hardy board.
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