Porch renovation in Canton, GA. Canton still has porches built as rooms rather than as entrances, and they are worth repairing properly.
A deep porch on an older Canton house is usually structural. The columns are not decoration; they hold the porch roof up. That matters because the place these porches fail first is at the column base, where water sits on the deck and wicks upward into end grain. By the time paint is flaking at ankle height there is often softness behind it.
Repairing a load-bearing column is a different job from replacing a decorative post, and it needs the load taken before anything comes out. We will tell you honestly whether what you have is a repair, a replacement, or outside what we take on.
Where to look — porch renovation in Canton
Column bases — press the timber at deck level
Step treads, which take weather and every footfall
The outer edge of the floor where rain blows in
Porch ceilings, usually ignored until they flake
Skirting and lattice at ground level
Columns and the deck they stand on
Porch columns rot from the bottom, because that is where water sits. The column itself is often sound six inches up, and a section replacement costs a fraction of a new column — but only if the porch deck underneath is drained properly, or the new piece goes the same way.
Screening, railings and ceiling boards are separate questions and usually cheaper than people expect. Where the structure is sound, a porch that looks finished is mostly paint and trim. Finished work is on our Facebook page.
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