On 8/3/18 7:48 AM, Leon wrote:
On 8/2/2018 6:31 PM, -MIKE- wrote:
There's nothing better than sitting outside on a beautiful evening and
watching the wildlife, having a couple beers, listening to some yacht
rock, or just watching a summer rain storm as you sit in its breeze.
But I could really do without the mosquitoes.Â* :-)

This is a project we've been wanting to do for quite a while and I
finally set aside some time to do it.Â* It will have full screens from
bottom to top and a really cool window system called Magic Wall by
Solara, a company from Florida that started out making hurricane panels.

They don't have a lot of pictures, but I saw their system at the
Nashville builders convention and it's really cool.Â* Basically, you
have these glass panels on tracks that slide open and closed.Â* You can
have 4 panels, that will slide into one.Â* In my case, the patio is
13'x16', so on 2 sides, I will have four 4' panels that slide over to
4', leaving 12' of full screen.Â* On the end, there will be four panels
that slide over to 3', leaving 9' of full screen.

I decided to do the rafter framing in cedar and have solid, T&G roof
decking to be exposed from the underneath.Â* The tie-in to the existing
roof with be plain old pine lumber, since it won't be seen.

Here's the progress so far, with all the cedar framing.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/nHLDkWJwdvgXBYS26
I have to say this cedar is a joy to work with.Â* Besides the smell, it
cuts wonderfully, is super light weight, and doesn't warp nearly as
much as SYP.Â* Then there's the looks.Â* :-)



I have been thinking of doing something like that, again, for about 7
years.Â*Â* Looks great so far!

Thanks. I'm really looking forward to it.
So is our cat. Maybe he'll stop waking us up at 4:30am to go out, if he
can hng out on this thing all night. :-)


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