Porch Floor Rehab

[CrestwoodCottage]

Here are a few pictures of my recent porch floor rehab. I have replaced someones not so great idea of putting tile down at the porch entrance vs. replacing rotting wood and have scraped and pressure washed off all the loose paint to get it ready. I have been going at this floor and the door(stripping paint and staining) for around 3 months now. I *think* it's safe to say that I am now done with the floor!

[Chevygirlalways]

Lots of work and what a great result. Nice job!

Susan

[CrestwoodCottage]

Thank you! My family and friends "know" what hard work all this is, but not like everyone reading this blog KNOWS what hard work this stuff can be!

[Gothichome]

Certainly makes a world of difference on the look and inviteness (is that a real word)of the porch. Well done, I did not see and way for water to drain from the floor. You just need to get ride of the tacky vinyle from the railings. I bet you'll find a treasure Under there.

[historicalwork]

That looks great! Just curious, what paint did you use?

[mattswabb]

What a difference. Looks great.

[Don M]

The floor looks great now, reminds me of a story my Mom told. She was supposed to paint the porch floor at her family's summer home at Henderson Harbor, NY one summer. She had a week to do the job but waited until the day her Mother was returning. She open the paint spread it over the floor, put up baricaids to keep the dog off. A week later the baricaids came down & the dog got stuck in the thick uncured paint. Mom spent much of the rest of the summer scraping & repainting that floor!

[CrestwoodCottage]

Thanks everyone! Trust me Gothichome, thats the first thing I did when we got keys to the house was to run out to the porch and pry back the vinyl to see what was underneath! It still has its original lap board siding underneath and the railing actually sits about 6" from the floor under the vinyl. It does drain, but not well. I would love to rip off the vinyl but it would require ripping it off the entire house if I started. Right now its not in the budget to do so and we also don't want to go taking on major cost that were not sure if we could recoup if we ever went to sell. The house is surrounded mostly with small 1950s less expensive homes on the 40 acres in which our house used to sit on.

Historical work- I used Sherwin Williams tinted oil based primer and then Sherwin Williams high gloss latex enamal with a grit added to it for slip resistance. Covered really well and seems like it will hold up fairly well. They also make a porch and floor paint but it wasn't high gloss. I felt like i needed high gloss b/c the existing paint that was on it wasn't glossy at all and I had a terrible time cleaning it.

Don- Sounds like a real mess your mom had! Oil based paint takes what feels like a million years to dry without pouring it on!