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Demolition of the Front Porch
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" What do you think about putting good greenhouse on the front of a house like that Dow has been -- to consider was put on never put a greenhouse on the front of the house before -- A different way of doing it but in this particular house that faces. That's out right in the perfect our location right -- yeah and if you think about it the way this front farmer's porch was designed it's not quite deeply enough. To use with furniture around it's really a ceremonial entry route yeah you can't do much of anything with that yes thought things. So you've already started doing little demolition yes we we have well we have and the original plans -- we -- at which showed us how was designed but I wanted to make sure that the framers actually frantically it was designed so you already and looked in there right and as it was drawn at the balloon frame which I was hoping meaning the studs go right -- to the top -- beyond the ceiling joists -- it right no interactions which is -- perfect for our application what we -- exactly as if you look at the plan here. What we have is. Up there where you're opening up we have three skylights again installed and then we got to connect these rafters if you will for the blast through. -- up to the wall back there right exactly yeah so how would you get started here what's the the first order of demolition would Preston learned though is that take off a lot of things you want to say which is this light right here right gutters and things don't work. I'll stop again it's an okay. Okay violent party disconnected the electricity to the entire found -- you just have to worry about that right so we're ready to -- taken this down or not there's not -- eye protection yes. We've got it. So market finished putting the roof racked up that we've got a couple of planks leftists and now we've got -- removed most of its roof to design calls for the section of the roof to remain. And then the actual skylights are calling this section as well as the new rafters. For the green house roof right that's right where do you make the cut we're gonna come twelve inches after the Dahmer and that's gonna give us a drip edge for a while it's and the construction that had to help keep a tight and a lot of guilt or. Cut right into the wooden true. OK right western head up nearly all the shingle nails coming through there right sheathing you've already made the cut on the top. And now Sicily this whole roof system gets removed the -- you going to cut they're on an angle. Well we want to create here is a temporary drip edge because we're opening this house in the weather and we want to make this time as possible so them. Use this our advantage temporarily okay. Don't spend each and every rafter an angle like."
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" It's good. But I was quick work but it -- up right in a moment any remodeling private bath in front of the house like -- of the house is absolutely wounded. Now the design calls for the slope that -- to continue in glass straight out here. That you're going to end up with an area that's about fourteen by 1718. Right the problem is that if you keep that slow but here that wouldn't have any headroom at this said so. That that the architects plan is to excavate this whole area down 36 inches."