Some of you may recall my post on my urban house:

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=11307.0

 

Here's a small follow up on my porch:

2003

 

 

2004

 

 

2005

 

 

2007 - The colors aren't final. My wife and I are arg... um, discussing about what they'll be.

 

 

Very nice!

Wow! What a great improvement! Much more bright!

Nice. I like the little downspout poping out from the post.

I'd say keep the colors.  Excellent job.

Thanks for kind words everyone. I also like to mention that I estimate 80-90% of the porch had to be replicated. Facia, soffit boards, crown molding, a couple of the interior structure pieces and one bracket are original. Everything else was rebuilt. This will be the final color scheme.

 

A quick story about the down spout inkaelin noticed. Fortunately before I had started all the finish work, my original design of having a buried downspout revealed a nasty flaw. The base of the 2005 column you see a piece of pvc tube hanging out. I had sealed 1.5" pvc running entirely from the original roof-drain location, that was against the house, back across the inside and drop down the main column. On one cold day, as I got home, I looked at the porch roof and noticed it had lifted off the main column, floating 6" above the capital. On closer inspection, the water in the vertical part of the 1.5" pvc that ran down the middle of the main column had frozen and acted like a push pop, breaking the pvc joint elbow at top of the column forcing the roof up. I had to redesign the downspout. Instead of it being sealed, I left a section of the pvc to dump into a regular piece of 3" downspoating that you see at the bottom of the current column. I hope this is the answer. I don't want to undo what I did.

There are electric heat tapes that are made for use in gutters and downspouts; I used one to cure an ice-damming problem with the gutter & downspout on my back porch roof. You can find them at most hardware stores, and they plug into 110V.

There are electric heat tapes that are made for use in gutters and downspouts; I used one to cure an ice-damming problem with the gutter & downspout on my back porch roof. You can find them at most hardware stores, and they plug into 110V.

 

I think I screwed up not embedding this in the column. :[

Super colors!  How do you paint that white molding that is behind that row of yellow angled buttresses?  That would challenge my patience.

Super colors!  How do you paint that white molding that is behind that row of yellow angled buttresses?  That would challenge my patience.

 

Fortunately, that bed moulding was already white before the brackets went up. Plus, if you just get close with your painting, it looks fine from even 5 feet.

 

 

Fortunately, that bed moulding was already white before the brackets went up. Plus, if you just get close with your painting, it looks fine from even 5 feet.

A ha!  Now I know what to tell my sweetie when we discuss painting results :)

Your remodeling project in the sister thread looks great.  You should be proud!

"2007 - The colors aren't final. My wife and I are arg... um, discussing about what they'll be."

 

Just remember - happy wife = happy life. I think the colors look great - but don't quote me on that, especially if she doesn't like them :laugh:

Thanks for your kind words, Boreal.

 

MayDay, if you're ever in Dayton, I can tell you of places that serve draft Great Lakes (everyone here stocks their bottles). The local tavern in my neighborhood currently has Christmas Ale and Edmund Fitzgerald on tap. It's a beautiful thing.

Funny that you mention that - my galpal and I had "Christmas Fitzgeralds" yesterday - a black-and-tan style concoction made with Christmas Ale and Edmund Fitzgerald. Beautiful thing indeed! :drunk:

Funny that you mention that - my galpal and I had "Christmas Fitzgeralds" yesterday - a black-and-tan style concoction made with Christmas Ale and Edmund Fitzgerald. Beautiful thing indeed! :drunk:

 

Well, I know what I'm having at the tavern tomorrow! BRILLIANT!!!

 

 

There are electric heat tapes that are made for use in gutters and downspouts; I used one to cure an ice-damming problem with the gutter & downspout on my back porch roof. You can find them at most hardware stores, and they plug into 110V.

 

I think I screwed up not embedding this in the column. :[

 

They can be run inside the downspout. Assuming the top end is accessible, just fish it through.

That looks fantastic, kdogg73.  I like the colors, too, if you choose them.