It’s been a while for updates on the house fixing uppers. It’s mostly been painting and touching up things. About two weeks ago, we started working on the back porch.
It started out as a repainting project. We wanted to paint the porch a white to match the rest of the house. We took down all the screens on the back porch and my parents offered to help by cleaning them up and repainting them. I had borrowed their pressure washer to clear out all the loose paint before we started painting.
After that I started working on the electric out there. The previous owners just had wires danging between the lights that was just painted over. I removed all that and added pvc conduit and put everything back up. I think it looks a lot better now.
I started using the pressure washer to get the loose paint off the back part of the porch, which was going well until I started spraying the box gutter area. The pressure washer was just shooting right through the wood. I also noticed that in one place they even had put metal up and painted it. I removed the metal and realized that all the wood of the box gutters was rotted out.
So now I’m in the process of just removing the box gutters and putting normal gutters up in their place. I’ve already removed most of them on the back section and I’m going to leave the side alone until I finish the back section (to get a good idea of what I’m going to do before doing the harder section).
I have pictures of the progress here.
