Is Your Porch Rotten?

Is Your Porch Rotten?

Be sure to check your home’s exterior regularly for problems and maintenance issues.

Anytime is a good time to look over your home’s exterior for issues. I always try to get our customers out of a spring cleaning point-of-view because problems can occur any time of year that are best not left untreated.

The reason I’m mentioning this now is because we recently remodeled a relatively new screen porch in Market Common that ended up being full of rotted wood.

A customer hired us to convert his screen room into a four season glass sunroom. To do this, we removed the old screen room walls that had a kneewall area covered with Hardie Plank Siding. The Hardie Plank is great stuff that we use often, but what was underneath was a huge problem. The builder installed the Hardie Plank over simple OSB boards, which are not made to handle the elements like treated plywood or other exterior materials. When we pulled off the Hardie Plank, we found that all of the wood underneath was rotten.

Here’s a before shot and a progress shot of the job…

Here’s a couple of photos from the pile in our dumpster after we started work on it. You can see the rot in the OSB and the studs.

Eventually, there could have been a structural failure with the walls or the Hardie Plank would start coming detached. This is a great example of a common issue that you should inspect around your home on a regular basis.

If you’d like to see a few more, I actually filmed an entire video series about the most common ones, click HERE.

Thanks,
Dave the guy who loves replacing rotten wood with better stuff

PS…If you have a home in Emmens Preserve in Market Common, chances are that your porch is the same way if you have a kneewall. They would’ve all been built the same way by the same crew. We don’t have to build you a sunroom (unless you want one), but we can replace the rotten stuff.

PSS…We’re replacing all of the wood with aluminum studs. No rot, rust, or termites…ever!

You can find us at…

Ocean Breeze Exterior Remodeling

843-238-4798

www.oceanbreezeexteriors.com

Our showroom is located at 739 Sandy Lane in Surfside Beach, SC