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Since then everyone one started advising me on how I should get rid off wooden trims and I’ve been such a fool to use wooden trims for all these years and kept paying more to maintain it.
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I had to research day and night to understand how to renovate the porch, read 100s of articles so nothing goes wrong. I recently renovated our Porch Area as my wooden trims where completely ruined due to the weather and other external factors. The 2 most important things when it comes to building your own house is choosing the right people (contractors/ workers) and choosing the right products. We often end up with something much more beautiful with the little mistakes than what we might have jotted down in a paper. I can totally understand your pain but kudos for getting back up and fixing your porch. Reply To This Comment ↓ Misha Roy Jat 12:10 amĪhhh. I will link to just one of the many web sites out there showing some ways to deal with porch columns to prevent rot: There are lots of details that will come up. You may have noticed that traditional porch columns have a small opening on the sides of the bottom trim base, and also up at the top of the columns, to allow for air flow –so that when moisture gets in there (and it will) it can dry out. Believe in Murphy’s Law when it comes to water’s ability to cause problems–if there is a way it can get in, around, under or condense inside of a structure–it will!! Believe me, architecture isn’t all just fun designing buildings and drawing floor plans–its LOTS and LOTS of boring flashing details, along with other water and moisture infiltration mitigation details (like weep holes in brick veneer, but I digress.) LOL!!! If you haven’t already done so, I would like to recommend that you google “porch column flashing” and look up some details on the various ways you can flash porch columns and deal with moisture infiltration. Water infiltration is the number one problem that causes lawsuits against contractors and architects– believe me–I used to be an architect. Sorry you had all these problems after all your hard work. Reply To This Comment ↓ Phyllis E Maat 5:33 pm I guess the only downside to PVC or other manmade building materials, is that they are not very earth friendly – they don’t decompose. (I don’t remember if he mentioned what his roofing material was.) Although there is no guarantee what will happen in a fire, it turned out his house was spared from burning while his neighbors were not as fortunate. Burning embers are blown and land on dead leaves resting on one’s roof.
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He also talked about keeping his roof and gutters free of falling leaves and debris. Also, the exterior of his house was stucco, which I wouldn’t say is fireproof, but almost. Although wood is beautiful, and we think of anything that tries to resemble wood as not as attractive, what he did made a lot of sense. He talked about fire prevention and one thing he mentioned was that he had a deck made from some sort of composite – not real wood.
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Kristi, I don’t know what part of the country you live in, but after all the devastating fires we experienced in California, I was watching something on TV about a retired fireman who lived in a remote, hilly area of the state with lots of trees. The porch columns are finished! Click here to see the finishing details and how they turned out. I’ll know better for next time… if there’s a next time. And once it’s painted, I really don’t think anyone would be able to tell the difference. You can cut the boards and trim with your regular table saw and miter saw, and you can attach them with construction adhesive and finishing nails just like wood, and you can even sand them quite easily just like wood. PVC is pretty easy to work with and doesn’t require any special tools. So if I had to do this project all over again from scratch, I’d wrap the entire column, from top to bottom, in PVC boards and trim. And I also learned the importance of keeping real wood up off the ground (or the patio or the porch floor) because even if it’s primed, it’ll still wick up moisture. And I also had no idea that PVC boards and trim could look so pretty. I had no idea that oil-based primer wouldn’t stand up to rain. I’m so used to doing indoor building projects, so building things for outdoor use that will hold up against the weather is new for me. There were quite a few lessons learned with this one. It hasn’t faded that much over the last week. (FYI, my porch floor is really filthy and covered in dust from all of the sanding I’ve been doing, which is why it looks like it’s a different color.
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