Porch Demolition

In the last post here at Peaches, we discussed the upcoming work on the back porch. Well, work is underway, and things are coming along nicely. Here are some pics of the demo work that was done earlier this week. First, the exterior:

I don't know what you can see from the photo, but underneath the vinyl siding is a vertical wood paneling-type of siding. It's isn't terribly unattractive, but that doesn't really matter, because it's coming off anyway. Also note that the rickety old steps are completely destroyed.

Now, pictures of the inside:

Not a whole lot to look at here; everything is just about what we expected. After we removed flimsy wood paneling (or, rather, after our contractor removed the flimsy wood paneling) the remnants of the original porch were revealed. you can see one of the old porch posts, painted white, in the photo above. Unfortunately, there aren't enough of the old posts left, so we are going to have to replace all of them for the "new" porch.

Quite a bit of time has elapsed since we took these photos, so I must confess that this is NOT what the porch currently looks like (sorry, it takes too much effort to try to update this blog daily!). So, faithful readers, you will have to remain patient while we get the newer photos uploaded. Work continues this week, so hopefully we can do a better job of updating the blog as the porch progresses.