The owner wanted to utilize their open back porch for 3-4 seasonal use. In doing that we wanted to give them a matching look to their existing home. We had limited height for the new entry door to the porch. This caused us to do some detailed measurements to insure the new door would clear the soffit line.

We had to extend the overhang and porch floor to add about 30" to the width of the existing 8' wide porch. I did not want to build the new walls without a footing down below freeze line, so we sawcut the patio slab and trench dug and formed for a footing and grade beam. Then we used wood floor joist to extend the floor. We used 1" Dow styrofoam on the inside of the concrete grade beam and also over the existing concrete porch slab.

We were able to match the existing house roof shingles and also the vinyl siding.

Our electrical subcontractor picked up a 220 circuit and another 110v circuit for the enclosed porch. The new front wall of the porch has an 8' baseboard heater along the wall.

Although the new windows have a slightly different style (prairie grids), they go well with the house and signify that this room is a special place with it's own style.
This project was started a couple weeks before Thanksgiving, thus it was not the ideal time.
We had to use bag concrete mix for the footings and grade beam as it was several hundred feet from road to porch with a nice lawn. Concrete truck and or georgia buggies were out of the question.

This added space was approx. 200 sq. ft. that has Southern exposure which is ideal for the radiance of the winter sun. The West side is to the left which has some tall cedars that will provide shade from that hot, western sun in the late afternoon.

This project was in the $14,000 - $16,000 price range, which is around $75 per sq. foot.