/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Don't have pictures but I will try to make your you a mind picture

a good m8 of mine was doing up his house (read: tearing down walls out of a timber frame and making new walls) and he thinks to himself "I want a bit of a deck and porch situation going on here". Now you might think he'd throw in some ground supports, some foundation, and have it just butted up against the house, but no. He gets some fucklong timber baulks and he slides them in through the gap and in among the floorboards and whatnot, but the gap is wider than the timber, so they're all slanted down. And then he stacks up 2x4s along the length to bring it up somewhere label and puts boards over the whole thing and puts up railings and a little roof part and calls it a porch.

It's solid as fuck right now but I figure it's only a matter of time.