Category: Porch Life

Not a whole lot is different today, because our contractor could work only in the morning. He ripped out all of the wall board that was projecting into the porch. He called it a “70’s-style flare-out.” The building code requires that the exhaust vent from the over-stove microwave oven, to the left of the sliding glass door, be re-routed to the roof.

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That’s fiberglass on the porch roof, by the way. We’ll be getting a proper roof, with a skylight on each side. See that other dated decoration, inside of the house? The geometric room divider? We’ll get rid of that in a future remodeling project.

This year the pollen was rather late in arriving, but when it did it came with a vengeance! For most of my life I’ve been allergy-free, but no longer. The pollen not only made us miserable, it kept leaving a dusting of yellow on the back porch.

So we decided to remodel the porch into a 3-season room, with casement windows, electric baseboard heat, and a through-the-wall air conditioner. Today was Day 1, and what a difference a day makes! Every day that something gets done, and there will be gaps, I’ll try to post some pictures.

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