Porch Flooring Done

To complement the country look of the metal roof, we decided to floor the porches with treated wood. We saw another house the builder had done with a wood porch, and it looked wonderful.

We are a bit of a guinea pig on the method used to install the porch boards.  Previously the builder drove nails into the underlying concrete.  On ours he embedded 2x4 boards in the concrete and used screws to attach the boards.

Note also that we selected square posts.  The builder wanted to use round, turned posts, but without a railing they looked naked.   We did not want a railing because it would obscure the rock siding.  We think it turned out nicely.