Here is a picture of the preexisting disaster we have to deal with that is the back door. For starters, you are looking at what is supposed to be the exterior face of the door oriented inwards. There is better than a 1' drop down from the floor to the threshold. If you look at the built up1 header above the door, you can see that it was carefully engineered to do absolutely nothing since there are zero members resting on it to carry any load through it. Also note that the door was placed in the middle of a braced wall panel with no reinforcement to make up for cutting the crossbrace. I'm sure the situation above the window is an identical abomination. Oh well, this is roughly what I expected to find.
1A footnote on the header mentioned above - upon deconstruction we find that this 'header' is not built up at all - where we would naturally expect to find two 2x8's with a filler strip sandwiched in between and through nailed to each other, we actually just find a scrap of particle board and then a 2x4 that was in fact cut in two so that it wan't even bearing on the jack stud:
It wasraining sprinking outside, so I tacked together a shelter that actually did a fine job of keeping the worksite dry:
New threshold built:
Opening cut out higher to accept a proper door. Notice how much more smoothly the top 10" of the opening is cut.
The wall is flashed and we've dug for footers to support a porch:
Snoopy flew over to see what we were working on:
Ledger board bolted to the wall to carry the far end of the porch:
Porch and step framed up and ready for a deck:
The completed porch:
Proper door from the inside:
1A footnote on the header mentioned above - upon deconstruction we find that this 'header' is not built up at all - where we would naturally expect to find two 2x8's with a filler strip sandwiched in between and through nailed to each other, we actually just find a scrap of particle board and then a 2x4 that was in fact cut in two so that it wan't even bearing on the jack stud:
With the old door out of the way, this is a view down where we will build a proper threshold. Here we have anchor bolts set in the concrete for our baseplate:
It was
New threshold built:
Opening cut out higher to accept a proper door. Notice how much more smoothly the top 10" of the opening is cut.
The wall is flashed and we've dug for footers to support a porch:
Snoopy flew over to see what we were working on:
Ledger board bolted to the wall to carry the far end of the porch:
Porch and step framed up and ready for a deck:
The completed porch:
Proper door from the inside:
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