So a couple of days ago, I planted all my new plants in the native gardens I am creating out front. When I put new plants in the ground, I tend to get a little obsessed with their well being, so I went out to check on them that night. When I came back in through the porch, I saw light streaming up through the floorboards. Hmmm...
Now I should mention that we have a full basement under the porch. Before checking on the plants, I had done a load of laundry and left the basement lights on.
I decided to investigate. I went to the basement and noticed the ceiling looked strangely like porch flooring. I also noticed the joists were a little off. There were twenty four inches between them. I went back up to the porch. I walked on it. It bounced. There was no subfloor!
At this point, I brought in reinforcements (Kevin) who said we needed to call more qualified reinforcements (my dad, an engineer). He was surprised no one had fallen through the porch. With the combination of no subfloor and widely spaced joists. So now the plan is to add joists downstairs and use the old porch flooring as subfloor and install new floor over it to act as the new floor. We are also breaking tradition and staining it rather than painting porch floor blue/grey. We found straight grain fir at a really good price; it would have been painful to paint it.
Thoughts?
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