Though Spring is more than a month away the warmer weather we've had and the garden posts that have been popping up in the last week have me thinking it was a good time to post about screened in/sun porches. Funny that before I get all the photos loaded it starts to snow! It's 41 degrees here, but it's snowing like crazy. Wasn't in the forecast either.
You may have noticed that my dear hubby has a finger bandaged in a couple of the pictures. Just a reminder to never ever stretch your arms to either side of you to hold wood in place while you're using a framing nailer. Or any nailer for that matter. The thing double shot and a humongous nail went straight through his finger, bone and all. Major ouch and a trip to an Omaha hospital emergency room. The nurse and female doctor had to call in a male doctor to remove it. Hubby watched. I didn't, but did take a photo of it with my cell phone without managing to look at it. Don't worry, I didn't post that picture.
#itching4spring #PorchPride
Pat, you'd enjoy your back porch even more than you do now if you screened it in.
Becky J and Carlene, I totally agree. :^) ...»
Douglas, would you be able to use one year round where you live?
Rhoda, will you be using the ScreenTight System to redo yours? We learned how easy it is to replace screen. The second year it was in use we had an over abundance of grasshoppers that ate holes on ever single section of fiberglass screening. We replaced it all with Solar Screen since it's denser and they can't get their pinchers around it to chew. It's darker as you can see on all the windows since they had Solar Screen in the photos above, but it's well worth the extra money. Not only does it save on energy costs, but as we found, the grasshoppers can't eat it.
Janine, I highly recommend the Screen Tight System. You can purchase it at either big box store.
Barbara and Jamala, this was done a few years ago so hubby is all healed. Thank you both for your concern.
Kevin, we're planning to someday close in the sleeping porch to make it into a three season porch. You can see that porch on the left side of the full view of our home.
Thank you Kelly. Sounds like you have almost a whole house screened it. Ours is just 12x12. Thank you for the well wishes for my hubby. He's all healed as we did this a few years back.
We dine out on the sunporch whenever the weather permits and now that I have a full size laptop I'll be surfing the web there too. ...»
Thank you Sherrie. It just snowed here too. We did this during the fall a few years back. I shared it now because I thought maybe others would be interested in closing in a porch of their own. It's such an easy process that even with the mishap my hubby was thrilled we did so after our first use.
Here's a more current, though still before we faced the steps. I had just finished power washing the front porch and was working on my wicker settee. Before I was able to repaint the porch it rained, then our daughter's wedding then a heatwave and drought. Hopefully the weather will cooperate this Spring/Summer and I can finish what I started.
I WILL SEND U THE BEST SHOTS WE HAVE RIGHT NOW..
Thank you SheilaG, I hope you ...»
Thank you Barb. I truly am blessed with an awesome hubby. We celebrated 33 years as man and wife yesterday. ♥♥
Oh ouch Straight Nails Construction! I'm so sorry. My hubby was lucky, he has not residual damage.
Very smart choice Fran.