Getting in Without a Ladder
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10
By November, the weather was still pretty mild. We decided to gamble by forming and pouring the front porch and steps. By doing so, the columns for the portico (cover porch) can be installed and the siding completed. Steve decided to make the footing for the front porch much larger than the specs put out by the engineer. Most of the porch is floating on top of pea gravel so staking out the forms is difficult, to say the least:
It's November 11th. Paul washes off the top of the concrete before it dries to expose the aggregate in the concrete:
By November 25th Steve installs the posts and finishes the siding. Yeah, we have boo-boos in the cement work but doing it ourselves saved about $2000:
