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  • Newly constructed front porch with wooden railings and steps on a gray house with white trim, surrounded by landscaping with yellow and dark red bushes.

    Westwood Avenue, Lakewood

    Practical Renovations uses premium materials so that your porch will last as long as you own your home. We do not use pressure treated lumber as it is prone to warping and shrinking; instead we often use red cedar coated with tung oil, or PVC flooring which will easily last a lifetime with proper care.

  • A two-story house painted green with red window shutters and decorative trim. The house has a front porch with white railing and stairs, surrounded by landscaped bushes and plants.

    St. Charles Avenue, Lakewood

    If specialty custom fabrication (ie. ornamental railing) is necessary, we can assemble components (rails, columns) in our local wood shop—just about any design is possible as long as they meet current codes and are approved through Lakewood’s Architectural Board.

    Ornamental railings (as shown) must meet current ICC standards.

  • Wooden railing being installed on a porch with tools and clamps on a bench, neighboring a brick pillar and house window.

    Summit Avenue, Lakewood

    In the early 20th century, ballustrades were often delivered by railcar and assembled on-site with the same materials to match the look of the rest of the home. Few builders can offer exact replication of these architectural features, and we are proud to to be one of the several that do.

    Lakewood Building and Housing allows for under 34” railing height for apples-to-apples replacements.

A note from the owner regarding Lakewood front porches…

It’s no secret that many Lakewood front porches are in trouble. Years of rain and snow have gotten us to this point, and common problems I see are structural in nature. The most prevalent issues are rotting wood floors and joists underneath and at the bases of columns, framing damage from years of salt under the floorboards, unsafe steps, and the list goes on. Luckily, there is hope…

There are a lot of porch flooring products on the market—some are real wood, some are synthetic (composite, PVC). Trees that were grown and milled in the early 1900’s were generally more dense and lasted much longer. Now, trees are grown at a faster rate to speed production and increase profits, which means that wood will rot quicker and won’t last long. For this reason, we’ve made the decision to ONLY install PVC-based flooring. We take the longevity of our projects seriously, and we want your porch to last for a long time. Some fantastic products we use include AERATIS, or ACRE porch flooring (Modern Mill). They mimic the style of original, old tongue and groove porch flooring used in the early 20th century. They’re far superior to TREX or other ‘composite’ products, and all porch flooring we install comes with a lifetime warranty.

“But isn’t PVC or composite flooring more expensive?”

Yes and no. While the material costs for PVC porch flooring is indeed more expensive than wood flooring, Practical Renovations charges LESS in labor costs than installing wood flooring. For you, that means the overall cost ends up being about the same. Think of it this way: in order to install wood flooring, we have to spend much more time prepping that new-growth wood to make sure it won’t rot. In the past, we’d use stain and at least three coats of spar-urethane to prevent that, which took a lot of time. With PVC floors, those labor costs don’t apply.

Now, if you still want wood flooring, we highly recommend that you ensure preparation is done right. Because, if not, you are at risk of a maintenance nightmare and a complete and total replacement in the not-so-distant future. I encourage you to do the right thing for you and your home, and also for the sake of adding years onto homes in the Lakewood community.

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