Screened Porch | Week 1

[Music] okay so this is the next project here it's a 12 by 20 deck there'll be a landing here maybe like a 3 by 3 landing and then a stair set that will come down to the driveway above it there'll be an open Raptor shed roof roughly the same size and then the whole porch will be a screened-in porch but it'll have knee walls with sill ledges at about maybe 3 feet off the deck surface so I'm going to bring you along and not show you every step or detail every step but I'm gonna do this series here basically with a weekly recap I'll show you the end product after the end of the week and then I'll bring you along during the week to show you the work so let's get started alright so the first thing I did on this job was to set up the ledge board which all the Veck is a 2 by 10 it's all 2 by 10 treated framing so I started by laying out marks on the deck board and drilling the holes so that way I would avoid all the choices in the future so I drilled a hole and then I came back and used the chisel just to kind of clean up some of the fibers that were kind of sticking up rough alright so here we're starting to mount the left board so I've marked two holes and started drilling just these two actually I think I just drilled just the one and once I got that one hole up then I just went to the other side while my friend was holding the board up I've got a Titan I had a let I had a line on the wall that I just gauged off of so I got that second one said once I get that tightened then he can get back to it the homeowner had some rubble where basically where the other doorway is there you can kind of see where some cinder block had been filled in previously and there was a stairwell it used to be a door there going to the basement so the homeowner had to demolish all of that and the stairwell and he had a lot of rubble and he saw in a previous shot there where my friend was helping me load that into the truck I'm going to use that in the future project this sledge went in pretty easily it appeared to be pretty level when I first plants but in the future add a little bit of problems at the end there I had the drill of a number of holes because the brick was so loose that I could barely get it to hold in but I did get a number of them to mount so we started by I like to just temporarily install the boards and then level those out and get just a frame of the deck installed and then we come back and we dig the holes and I'm gonna use a rim beam for the outside so it'll be a double outside beam and I'll hang the 6x6 is off that I'll notch them and then hang them so here we're doing the other one here there's actually a driveway here it was just catching the edge of this driveway so it was kind of teetering on the edge I always wanted to fall over until we got the first rim board on the outside here we got the first room board the homeowner actually was here and he just happened to come in right as we were hanging it and jumped in to help us put that up so we got this first rim board up now and we started doing some squaring and you'll see in the future that make kind of a boo-boo where I actually oh here we I realized that the house was slightly less square so I had to trim that just to square up the outside of the deck which like I said in the future I actually made a mistake it was yeah I really embarrassing I I installed the joist on the backside on the outside of the rim board excuse me of the ledge board and on the outside I installed the joist set in to the rim board so essentially the backside was three inches wider than the front side but it'll go for quite a while before I realized all right here we come in with the second rim board and I just get a couple screws just to kind of temporarily hold it in place and and my friend had to leave so not sure shortly after this he he headed out for the day then I just started doing some minor things like I started to put a layout on the outside that way I could see where I wanted to lay out the post locations so they wouldn't interfere with the locations of the joists I believe two of them did interfere so I just had to shift the locations of the joists to accommodate so it wasn't too big of a deal we didn't really lose that much so right now I'm marking the location of the joist okay now this is the following day and I started every day basically by loading more of that rubble in just to kind of get rid of it as I was there each day so it wasn't really too bad and then there'd up being about four loads worth of rubble that I could take in the truck and I've just got it stored like I said for a future job I might do this living shoreline at my house so I'm gonna try to just gather some rubble to do it with now I had to have two separate deliveries and this one the first one here is all the 20-foot material which is all the treated material and the joist for the roof and the couple of the rim boards so the two rim boards and then the ledge board I actually picked those up so that wasn't a big deal so okay so this is the following day here and I wanted to try to set some joists too because the outer rim board was so wavy so I put a string and then cut the joist measured the joist to the string and then cut those but I forgot to take the inch and a half off because I put the string in the center of the two so they were all I mentioned out too long so I did these two joists and it worked out pretty well I didn't even have to use the third one even though I had a cut so I just said let's wait so okay right here I went around and just started levelling just to confirm that everything still look good and then tried to just confirm it with a final square and then we could go ahead and start digging the holes I'm pretty sure that this is okay this is what I was trying to say was the final square here but as I said this is all irrelevant wasted time because it's an inch and a half out in the back on each side but I won't know that until coming into the future so we'll see here I just kind of plumb down and started marking where the holes are and then we start digging here and I speed this up because this took a long time so four holes these this first hole was as easy as they come second hole was okay the third hole was a little bit harder it had some rocks and some rubble but that last hole the fourth over my friend and I are over there that hole had a cinder block you'll see it come out here shortly there it is and then it was like a section of sidewalk almost that was between the two holes and we were pounding and pounding with the digging bar to try to get that out it just finally I had to get a sawzall because then that rebar mesh in it and I was cutting the mesh breaking it off piece by piece just chiseling it out but we finally did get the hole there and I had concrete delivered I didn't show the second delivery but I had concrete deliver I had 24 bags I was like the overshoot at least I know I could always mix it and just throw it in the hole I was assuming it would be about six bags per hole eighty pounders so I'd like to kind of overdid the hole especially with the roof I was shooting for a two-foot round hole so I must remove the holes at the bottom a little okay so I'm starting the knotch these six by sixes so I had to first trim the length to what I wanted and then I had another mark that was the notch so this I believe was the second one because the first one I cut and I said I really should film it I forgot so I cut this one and then we started mounting them I just kind of hang them and screw them in temporarily and then once I get everything locked in with a concrete will drop the loop down on it and then put the bolts through which I'm very glad that we did that that way because if I had went ahead and put the bolts and everything through and had it ready to go permanent you know they would have all been wrong and I would have to pull it all because of the out of square issue but you'll see that in a future video I just have it that bored so it'd be easy for the two of us to lift suddenly just get inside of it just pick it up and the hardest part is just trying to get it as tight to the bottom of the deck as possible and then you know you just have to do a little bit of plumbing issue with the level to make sure it sits in there correctly well once you're good in the hole and you're good from the back inside the side before the concrete in and it's really very easy to do it this way so this is the final one and a problem if because it was so close to the side joist I'd actually get a right angle to do all the final permanent setting of the screws all right here we're mixing a concrete now this is very very high speed took us I don't know maybe about over an hour to do all these bags so it was a while I made a mistake with one of the posts I believe it was that the second one in from the right there on that previous shot because the post actually was set I cut to the mark for the notch instead of cutting to the mark or the trim down mark so it was in essence you know nine inches too short so we had to add a lot of concrete we have a match one batch that we had to add so much concrete that the we have maybe about four bags in the wheelbarrow so it was getting a little excessive so okay here we go the concrete's all set and thank you for watching I will upload the next video hopefully shortly we'll be on a weekly schedule so I hope you enjoy if you liked it please hit the thumbs up

Channel: Horst Carpentry

Views: 94,129

Keywords: how to build a deck, how to build a screened porch, framing a deck, digging footers for a deck, setting posts for a deck, lumber delivery, mounting a ledge for a deck, pouring concrete footers

Id: XeTUTKb84D4

Length: 11min 28sec (688 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 26 2019