Good stuff Jim, I appreciate it!! With that site you posted, I feel
pretty confident that I can tackle this. I will most likely call my
carpenter buddy to come on board occasionally and give me a hand as well to
double check the work. The illustrated pictures are a bit different then my
situation, but good enough I think I can make it work, but very good site.

Regards, and thanx for the input from all of you!!

Doug


"Jim Elbrecht" wrote in message
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"Doug" wrote:

Hi everyone...,

I have a situation where I need to redo the flooring on my porch. It is
covered by an overhang and held up by cast iron channel. I will need to
support this overhang somehow and remove the supports while supporting the
roof/overhang in order to get to the bad lumber underneath.

What sort of methods or suggestions would you guys have for doing this?

A picture is worth a thousand words--- several pictures here;
http://www.hammerzone.com/archives/f...13/replace.htm

Way down-- [search page for "driving around town "] is the way I did
mine.

ALSO, what type lumber is typical in porch flooring? Treated or not?
I've
never taken on any sort of project like this but am pretty handy, so any
other do and don't would be appreciated!

Million dollar question. I ripped my deck off last year. [as part of
a basement project] The decking that had lasted 50 years and was
in pretty good shape considering it was probably only painted twice
was 3"tongue and groove fir. I doubt I could find the same quality
fir these days in NY.

Since early spring I've been going back and forth between pressure
treated, Trex or one of the plastic 'woods', Ipe, and a mahogany that
the local yard sells for about what the Trex and Ipe go for.

The high priced homes in my locale [upstate NY] are using cedar, but
it seems to me that is real soft for a deck.

My latest leaning is towards the mahogany. It is tougher than cedar,
better looking than pressure treated or any of the plastic ones I've
seen, and it's a bit easier to work with than Ipe.

I'm only doing about 100 square feet, so my labor is a much bigger
part of the job than whether I spend $300 or $500 of a $3000 job.[the
whole porch]

I want something that will need little to no maintainance. My porch
is on the east side of the house so the weather isn't too bad for it.

Jim