Porch Cover Construction DIY in 5 Days - Timelapse

#porch #PatioCover #porchcover Home construction project adding a porch cover to a south porch and room.

Note: Please slow playback down in your settings (see wheel in lower right corner), or pause, to see various steps slower. Also, I have added the captions from the video to this description below for your review. Please see the BOTTOM of this description for details as to WHY this video is so fast.

Total cost of the project was around $500 and has been very helpful in cooling off a South East facing room.

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I did not have a lot of experience with construction, as it will be apparent. So, this is basically an idea by a homeowner to try tackle this project. I do like building things and tackled this project during a Christmas Holiday from school and hope to encourage others to do the same.

Total Dimensions: 10' x 10'
Door side height: 8.5'.
Post side height is 7.5'.

Material List (Approximate):
2 - 4x6x10 Cedar Rough - Main posts
4 - 2x6x10 Cedar Rough - Main supports
5 - 2x4x10 Cedar Rough - Rafters
5 - 1x4x10 Cedar Rough - flats for roof
18 Angle Clips 2x1-1/2x2-3/4
4 - Tie Rafter DBL Plate Hurricane
4 - R Panel sheets 10' Channel 29 ga - Roof
1-1/4" Primeguard screws.
2 - 8" Bolts and other hardware, Galvanized

Captions:
South Porch Cover Project
Shortly after construction, my wife and I realized our south bedroom was hit by the sun all day.
The idea for shade cover to also be helpful for when working outside is conspired.
A prototype with PVC and a frost blanket is constructed...and it worked very well.

Day 1
The area is prepped for the post holes.
I didn't want to trim the tops of the post, so I really worked with the measurements.

Day 2
My wife, Aimee, suggests a time lapse. Great idea! She knows I like to shoot timeslapse...and I have the perfect older cell phone setup to do the job...and iPhone 5s.
A corner post level would have been helpful. I now have one, but this Jerry Rig did the trick (two ruler levels strapped on.
I brainstormed a few tricks for a one person workflow (I was home alone for most of this project...except for Charley), but it still went really slow.
Concrete is set and I head off for other projects. The posts are supported so I return to the project later in the day, even though the concrete really still needed more time to set.

Day 3
After the Boss (my wife) inspected, a major support flaw was determined.
And, the 2x4 frame was not proportional.

I had missed the significance of the header board resting on top of the main post [to support the rafters].

The posts are notched so a board can be set as a header.

The 2x4 boards are taken down and replaced with 2x6.

Other than a little time lost, the project looked much better.

Day 4
1x4s are placed across the rafters to attach the R-Panel roofing material.

Day 5
Time to paint. I used a stain since this was rough cedar wood.

Shot on iPhone 5s. Photos transferred via Google Photos so the images could be accessed on another device. Edited with Splice on an iPad.

Time-Lapse Details: Using the built in iOS App, with it's lack of controls most [of the shots] were 30 minutes resulting in 30 second clips. [Which means I set an alarm to go off on my watch every 30 minutes, then went over to the phone and started a new clip.]
[The clips] were then sped up 2x in post production. This result in 40 hours in under 7 minutes, and then eventually sped up on YouTube to 2 minutes.

The time-lapse interval for the last day was about 3 hours for the first clip...then 2 hours for the last clip. This was done to really speed up the capture rate with Apple's frame rate dropping system as the length of the time-lapse increases.

Speed of Clip Editing History:
VIDEO was sped up too much AFTER posting to YT using YTs editor that is no longer available to slow back down. The original video was intentionally fast, but the text was not fast.

This was initially produced and published as an 8 min video. At the time, YT allowed online editing, which included a rate edit tool. I sped up the video first to a 4 minute video, but it was still AGONIZINGLY slow. Instead of complaints about not being able to slow it down, or pause on the captions, I would have gotten WAY more complaints of how boring and slow was the video. 4 minutes was better, but I sped it up again, to a 2 minute video. Then, YT took away the ability to change the rate, so, it ended up stuck with the 2 minute version, when I probably should have left it as a 4 minute clip. Anyway...hope this explains how it ended up so fast. It was created on an iPad and have unfortunately lost the original edits, so I would have to start from scratch to create a new edit, which I may do at some point.

Wow good work. I also respect your honesty with the mistake you made and corrected. Great job and thanks for the idea.

[ironguy]

Curriculum for the Evelyn Woods Speed Reading course

[wmoy]

Since you have such an extended eave, I would have put two post by the house so I can have access to the siding in the future for panting or repairs.

[tonyc]

It’s cool but I’d like to know how you secured the roof without being on top

[Justin-dyib]

Hey Drew did you mount your ledger board on top of the siding? Mine will be very similar to yours as well.

Thanks bud! Looks great btw!

[cvf]

Love it. Looks like everyth8ng is to code. As far as the beginning hick up with the support, happens in every project! There are just things you can't foresee sometimes I've found.
Since this is during Christmas I'm sure you won't be getting much rain, like here on WA state. Though there's some slope so any weather can be pulled down to gravity and not pool up. Cedar, excellent choice! Looks great.
I'm wondering how it's held up over the years going to check out the comments. Great video! 👍🏻

Beautiful.
Funny watching boss sit and move around lol.

[Amy-vgqr]

Nice looking cover; but, definitely want to slow things down a bit. We had a very hard time following.

[robertrobarge]

All looks so nice. I built a few .but man some folks got it down.

[AAAFL]

This is beautiful, just wondering if it leaks when you have heavy rain where the wood meets the siding

[jonathanmiller]

Hey Drew.... man this is awesome! Great job!!! I do have a question for you. When you were hanging your ledger board, How did you know where to screw in your lag bolts? How did you know where your studs were? Thanks

[shoaibsheikh]

Loved it but tile lap not good I would like to see what king bolt you use and roof and cutting technology. Can you have close up

[memahen]

Needs to be slower, so that those of us who are unexperienced can see what is happening. Looks good at end

[anaceciliamillena]

This project is exactly what we need for our backyard patio, same dimensions and all! Thank you for posting! We are going to buy the materials in the next few days, but my husband would like to use roof shingles. Would you recommend it? Also, what bolt size should we use? Sorry! we are new DIYers!

[jerrybeck]

Are the rates which are attached to the header cut at an angle and if so what degree? Novice builder here.

[ridelive]

Nice and simple. Kind of what I m looking to do. The only question I have is how to attach that main board to the wall covered with siding to avoid any moisture issues... You didn't show how you did it, unfortunately.

[drumskas]

Why fast forward so fast when you have captions to read? It's a little uncomfortable to rewind so much just to catch that part. I cant ever finish the video.

[Van_LifeCardz]

How did you connect the joist to the 2x6

[wardanac]

Hey Drew. Awesome job! What does the material called that you used to cover the roof plz?

[jionididit]

How did you attach the ledger to the siding given the siding has an angle? Did you compensate with angle on the rafters? Did you use the inverted siding method to make it even? And did you use any deck2wall spacers or anything to put a space between the ledger and siding?? Thanks in advance!