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Screened Porch Plans

By Tim Carter
©1993-2008 Tim Carter
Summary: Screened porch plans are essential when determining if the building department will approve your project. Don't spend hundreds or thousands of dollars in architect fees before your zoning is approved.

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john
10 Apr 2008, 14:08
Hello, first ty for all the good plans and things you bring to the site. Me and my wife want to build a nice porch for our 16x80 single wide trailer house. Ive searched the web and fount this site i believe if this is my best chance to get some help. We would greatly appreciate some ideas and floor plans. This is going to be her birthday present. please respond. Thank you, john
AsktheBuilder
13 Apr 2008, 08:59
John,
You are welcome. Just use some of my deck and patio-planning columns to determine how big to make the porch. Then read all of my Screened-Porch columns to discover many of my secrets.
Laura
17 Apr 2008, 23:44
I am having difficulty finding information for an unusual problem. My house had a addition built on (we believe) in the 70's, a large living room and screened porch. While this nearly doubled the useable area of this old Pennsylvania farmhouse, I have noticed that the screened porch area of the addition has nearly non-existant support of cinder blocks under what appears to be adequate deck framing. I would like to winterize this space and, at the same time, correct the obvious foundation problems. Is this a problem best left to the professionals, or is there a way to create a foundation under an pre-existing raised deck.

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