{"id":126,"date":"2010-08-17T01:25:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T01:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/thisoldhouse\/?p=126"},"modified":"2013-09-13T22:32:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T02:32:06","slug":"no-more-porch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/2010\/08\/17\/no-more-porch\/","title":{"rendered":"no more porch!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to wait until the backyard was completely done to show pictures, but I’m worried that we’re not going to be able to finish it anytime soon because of a lack of money. So I’ll go ahead and put up the pictures now, and do a big before\/after post later. :-)<\/p>\n

\"Backyard\"<\/a>
\nThe side of our house, with the porch gone!<\/p>\n

\"Foundation<\/a>
\nRemoving the structure revealed some of the foundation issues we’re having.<\/p>\n

\"Where<\/a>
\nWhat the back of our house looks like now. You can see the cement stoop that was originally there.<\/p>\n

\"Where<\/a>
\nWe would like to make this into a nice little patio area, by using patio stones and\/or gravel. We’d like to have a place for a table and chairs and also a grill. I’m even thinking of that marking off the area with some sort of pergola and lighting would be really nice!<\/p>\n

Underneath the deck we found some containers that were full of water. Once we got rid of them, the mosquito problem was a lot less. However, it’s not completely gone. We are also having a wasp problem – we found 3 nests in the roof of the sunporch, so they are flying around trying to find new a nest. This makes it still hard to be outside.<\/p>\n

I’m also unsure about what to do with the fence. Ideally, I’d love to take down that section and put a new one in that follows the property line. I did some research, and it seems that with chain-link, just “moving” it over a few feet is not easy at all. Some of the research I’ve done says that it’s very worth it hiring a professional, versus DYI. Hmm, more money. Not sure.<\/p>\n

Paul thinks we should just leave as is. I am thinking of squatter’s rights laws, and I think that it’s important to have a fence on the boundaries of your property – for both you and your neighbor, and also for future owners of either house. If it was just crooked, I wouldn’t worry about it, but the whole jutting in thing makes a different in my opinion. Maybe we could just replace that section of the fence, though that might not be an option. Still thinking about it.<\/p>\n

Next up (as much as we have money…):
\n1) Fix house foundation
\n2) Replace insulation in crawlspace
\n3) Grade & sod backyard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going to wait until the backyard was completely done to show pictures, but I’m worried that we’re not going to be able to finish it anytime soon because of a lack of money. So I’ll go ahead and put up the pictures now, and do a big before\/after post later. :-) The side […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}