Front Porch Progress (And Idea Fail)

Simply as a reminder, for this reason I’m even specializing in the entrance porch (when we have now good climate outdoors) proper now. You’ll be able to see right here how rotted the outdated boards had been.

And it wasn’t simply the entrance board. The board on the aspect of the porch was even worse.

It took fairly some time to get these outdated fascia boards off. Let’s simply say that once I construct issues, I don’t intend for them to be undone. 😀 However as soon as I bought the outdated boards off of the entrance of the porch, I began by portray the entire thing strong black. After which my thought was to connect the brand new PVC fascia boards, after which to cowl over the underside skirting space, I used to be going to make use of PVC 1″x4″ boards vertically and spaced about 1/4″ to 1/2″ inch aside. (And as you possibly can see, the rain got here again whereas I used to be working. I took most of those footage after the rain began once more.)

That is the paint that I used to color the concrete, and I requested them to combine a strong black for me. I didn’t select a colour from the paint swatches. I simply requested for pure, strong black. I used to be fairly impressed with this paint. It went on very simply and lined rather well.

My concrete does have these horizontal ridges the place the boards for the framing met when the concrete was poured, however I didn’t assume they’d be an issue since they weren’t an issue once I glued on the stone.

However I wasn’t fairly certain about areas like this. I’ve two areas like this, and I assumed they is perhaps an issue, however I used to be ready to notch out the again of the PVC board to accommodate these areas.

I connected two vertical items collectively utilizing PVC glue.

So I took it off and determined to load it down with a ridiculous quantity of polyurethane adhesive and take a look at once more.

It doesn’t matter what I did, I couldn’t get that nook piece located in order that it was plumb on the entrance and the aspect on the identical time. Labored and labored and labored with it, after which I lastly gave up. And naturally, it left an entire mess.

And that’s in regards to the time it began raining, and I definitely didn’t wish to be gluing PVC boards to moist concrete, so I referred to as it a day.

So yesterday night, after being pressured to cease due to the rain, and compelled to rethink my plan due to that wonky concrete nook, I got here inside and began in search of different concepts for the skirting. I got here throughout this really great YouTube channel called Michael Builds, and he has this video on how to create different looks straight on concrete utilizing mortar combine. He created a stone look, a stucco look, and a brick look on these concrete blocks simply utilizing mortar combine and some instruments.

Additionally, it appears to be like enjoyable, and I really like making an attempt new issues. I’ve by no means labored with mortar combine earlier than, so it could find yourself being one other fail, however I believe I’ll a minimum of have enjoyable making an attempt! And to make it simple, as an alternative of making an attempt to match the stone on our home, I believe I’ll simply go together with a brick sample. As soon as it’s painted, I believe it’ll coordinate properly with the stone. I’d moderately it’s apparent that it’s a distinct materials as an alternative of making an attempt to match the stones and failing.

That’s the brand new plan. Now I simply need to get that black paint off of the concrete after which wait for an additional day of fairly climate earlier than I can check out this new thought.