First House “Chore”

So begins the chores. I suspect that there are a lot of them. Not looking forward to projects such as this. The front porch has needed to be replaced for a while. It is just non-treated pine and is probably 30+ years old. And whenever the rain gutters get full of leaves, the water just overflows onto the porch. Not a good design.

It looks like all of the ledger and supports need to be replaced. The support beams are not only in poor shape but there aren't enough of them. I’m planning on using Trex or some other composite material so the spacing has to be 16”. And, I’m thinking of running the deck boards parallel to the wall as there aren’t any support piers for the support beams. The original decking was 2x4 material which is a lot stronger than the composite material.