Making an Old Porch Look New

Where I live, there’s a vein of old houses whose porches have become a mainstay of my business. They’re challenging, and not just because every porch is different – hugely different in some cases – but also because the skills required to work on them are so different from the skills used to build decks. Sometimes I’m ripping tapers into 8 miles of sleepers so I can level a slab to receive a wood floor. Other times, I’m trying to figure out how to stretch screen like they do in a factory. Some porches require custom molding fabrication and, no