Screened In Porch | Somfy Motorized Screens Install | DIY Front Porch Makeover
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2021
- I have wanted to get my front porch screened in for a long time now, and I'm happy to say that day is FINALLY here! Thanks to @somfysystems , I now have a motorized screen system that transforms my front porch into a wonderful indoor/outdoor space. Check out the process for preparing the porch and installing the screen in this video!
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I worked at a full time job until my 9th month and renovated an entire home (mostly by myself) during my pregnancy as well. I gained 17 lbs with my pregnancy and the baby was 9 lbs of that. I was not quite 5 feet and weight 95 lbs prior to getting pregnant. The baby came out perfect and scored high on all tests. Although some pregnancy can be difficult, it doesn’t mean pregnancy is a handicap. You can do almost anything. Great to see you doing all of this while pregnant.
For sure. From a medical standpoint pregnancy should not limit many activiites. You should however be a little careful with exposure to chemicals. Primers and sanding dust can be toxic. A mask would be best.
@@DannebergAcres its clear you're not a doctor. it's a reason why the American system has a high infant mortality rate and a maternity death rate compared to third world countries.
pregnancy definitely does handicap you
I love this option!! I like the idea that you mounted them inside as well.
I ❤ your videos!! I watch them again and again. I remember while pregnant w my 2nd child. I bowled 4 different leagues finishing one Sat evening, summer league with my best score of 289! P.S. also worked full time (graveyard shift) at hospital then moved on Sunday (Labor Day weekend). Daughter was born Monday morning on (Labor Day) w very short labor of 40 minutes... no anesthesia. Felt great!! I applaud your many renovations! Especially "kitchen", first video of yours I viewed. Blew me away! The bathroom that you redid w new window w outside siding, Wowza! Congrats to job well done! The children's tree house left me speechless. 🎉 🎉🎉
Melissa, your family are so blessed to have such a talented and beautiful mum and wife. Hope your new addition also goes well-and I don't mean the bug screens!
That is a sweet setup! No bugs! That father/son team do a good job!
Those screens are beyond cool! That porch has become your oasis!
Absolutely!
When installing any lumber exterior. All six sides of the board should be painted or at least primed other than that looks great
A feather board would be the correct table saw accessory to keep pressure on the piece against the fence. Cheap, safe, and effective!
Nice! perfect addition for memorial day weekend coming up!
Wow what a difference. Good job.
It is a beautiful addition to your home.
Such an amazing young person. Very happy for you.
Wow! That's awesome! I need to do this to my porch!
Beautiful work. Even more impressive considering how tired you must be. You look beautiful. Best wishes during the remainder of your term. ♥️
I love this so much!! I want this but with a heated porch to use in the winter when it’s snowing (not during a blizzard, but sitting out with some snow under a heater in a screened porch sounds so nice.
Very impressive work and it have a nice look now.
What was the cost of these screens ?
This turned out wonderfully! Great job and thanks for sharing.
Great addition to your house!
Seriously considering these for my home 😍 beautiful !! and what a great inspiration you are to be pregnant and still doing everything you do.
I love you passion for home improvement
Great job love your screens too 🥰❤️👏
Dang, that turned out awesome. Love it !
Thanks for the video. Seems like a simple installation process.
thanks for the great vid! I'm gonna go check out Somfy now!
The best of wishes to you and your family.
The front of your house looks great!
Nicely done 👍
Very cool screen!
Really nice idea!
Very nice. You always do such fun projects...
Great job,and good luck with the baby😆
Great work and it came out looking amazing. If I may, I couldnt help notice how you used to top 2 rungs of your ladder while painting. My hands got sweaty as I have seen one too many friends fall due to this (I think it made my anxiety worse knowing you were pregnant). Anyone reading, please use extra caution when using ladders. Taking literally 30 seconds to reposition the ladder for more stability is a small price to pay when it comes to ensuring your safety.
Super awesome
Great video and porch.
Really nice and super nice 👍
Nice job 👍
I also love a screen porch and hate bugs. Take it easy when pregnant as you are more prone to straining ligaments and muscles due to hormonal changes and your balance can be off due to the added weight load in front. Nice job. I’m so envious.
good for u that pregnancy is not stopping doing what u need to do...great transformation on the porch
that is so cool....yipy now u can chill in the porch and kiss goodbye to the bugs...
I found the garage sale clamps that you mentioned. Bought them in the UK. Thank you.
I hope you love them!
Multi tools the remodelers dream tool
Love this, exactly what I want but now to find someone in Australia that does similar. Take care and ease up a bit now.
Somfy is international and I know they work in Australia! Click here to find a dealer near you: www.somfy.com.au/
Love the video I would definitely recommend either removing the weddings ring while doing things like this or buy a silicone ring like Groove. If that table saw would have kicked it could have caught your ring and degloved your finger
This is good advice 👍 I wear one for that very reason.
Wow! You are a supermom!
You are one awsome pregnant lady...
You are my hero
beautiful and creative girl
I would love to have my porch screened in it gets so many bugs in the summertime
Cool another idea I came up with electric windows in house yes
You’re a boss; glad I came across your channel. I know we are all annoyed with masks and fun police, but you should wear a respirator when sanding and using spray paint/primer. Did I mention that you’re a boss! Well done!
Excelente
Super Mom😍
Did you profile the porch before painting it? Putting a sand on it is key for adherence. Do a tight prime coat and sand lightly again and get some quality epoxy or paint and roll another coat and sand again and do a top coat of a urethane, tight coats you can use a urethane with 240 Aluminum oxide as a slip resistance or like a #10 glass bead. If you go the epoxy route you can broad cast a quartz blend into the body coat then do a 10mil grout coat over the quartz after it's swept and vacuumed. Then another 12 mill body coat, depending on the texture you want for slip resistance. Then a top coat of a high strength UV stable urethane topcoat without slip. So much you can do with epoxy
I am wanting to screen in my porch, let us know how you like them after a couple of months in use. New subscriber here. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice…..
You are awesome. I would be nervous with you on the ladder
A better way for paint to adhere to surface is physical bonding. Sanding it to give the surface a rough profile for paint or primer to adhere.
The installers could program both screens to channel 3 to eliminate having to switch channels. A call to somfy and you're all set if you want to program yourself.
Hi Melissa! Looks really nice! Your prep work made everything come together.
I wish UA-camrs would demonstrate or use products that us normal folks can afford and are not sponsored
Safety glasses!!!
I may have missed it, but how are they powered? Are they hard wired in? Plugged in? Battery (I know, doubtful)
Hi Melisa, I hope I have not just butcher your name but I was going from memory and at my age (70), my memory isn’t the best. I think you are fantastic doing what you do while being pregnant, being a man I don’t have direct knowledge, but I do remember my wife digging her nails into my hand when she was delivering our children and although I would not presume that it was any way close to the pain my wife went though I still remember it.
Do the blinds stop if someone’s foot is in the way like garage doors, as you did not mention it in the video? Thanks again for producing videos of such high standards, even now and I wish you and your husband all the best for the upcoming baby.
They don't automatically stop if someone is in the way, no.
Beautiful job. What type of wood did you use to wrap porch post that can last severe weather? Did you use cedar? I know pined don't last.
By the time the contractors get there, you and the wee bun in the oven will have it completed!
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Hello. I really like the work you have done. What was the model number and screen name that you used? Also what was the model number and name for the motorized unit?
How often should I oil my wood countertop?
Look at the bump - woo hoo
Why are you pulling the wood through the table saw blade from the back instead of standing in the front and pushing the wood through? The dust port is on the back of the table saw. Is there a table saw trick I am unaware of working from the back? I know you are find but that worried me!
Good idea, I sell those screens 💯🎯
What state are you in Ian in PA
What's the ball park cost for these motorized screens?
How do you get it back on track if the screen comes out of the track?
Very good video! I didn't know wood putty could be used on a painted surface. Do you have any trouble with it becoming loose or falling out over time?
Thanks! I haven't in the past, but I've only used wood putty for three years so maybe take that with a grain of salt.
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Thanks for the reply!
Ours are similar but mounted on the outside and we used sunbrella fabric instead of screen. Heavy wind tore one of the 5 shade out of the tracks and I haven't figured out yet how to get the fabric back into the side tracks. There seem to be no fasteners to the side rails that I can see. Do you know how your side rails are attached? Thanks.
Hi Melissa, fabulous job as usual. Please don’t continue to stretch to that extent as your pregnancy progresses, like when you were wiping off the blinds. If the umbilical cord is even loosely around the baby it will tighten as you stretch. Take care
Great video and great job!! Can you share how much the motorized shades cost?
Totally depends on what you're getting installed. You can find a Somfy dealer near you by clicking on the link in the description. They're international and send their installers out for free estimates! 🙂
Love watching this video. However at the 2:06 mark when you bust out the oscillating tool, I cringed a little and think back to my wood shop class in middle school. Where my teacher used to tell us, "after you master the hand tools, I'll let you use the power tools" Here is the perfect example of over complicating something that is far easier with a basic wood chisel and hammer. I worry sometimes about humans in this age losing basic skills, when we all seem to do is, immediately go for the power tools, even when, in this case, hand tools would not have been as difficult and annoying as your oscillating tool made it.
Does it block the rain?
Spray listerine for mosquitos on the screens and edges.
Why?
Are these any good in winter time? I want to screen in my porch but I’m scared tbe snow will wreck them
Opps didn’t show that
I live in Manitoba (your neighbour to the north) and screening in a porch like this is a must. I assume your mosquito count is similar to ours?
It's so bad lol! And we live by a lake so this not only keeps out the mosquitos but also the spiders! 🕷️
@@WelcometotheWoodsBlog Ugh, I hear you! We have 18 acres of forest right along a river and it's "usually" brutal. Hopefully 2021 will be a dry year!
Can I get the screen installed in my house too? How much it would be?
Wher do you get all your energy from!
Where did you run the electrical...did show that
Oh I'm sorry I should've shown that! We had an outlet about four feet away and each screen plugged into it (two plugs). You can also hardwire these but it can be harder to service them if you do. You need an exterior rated outlet within twenty feet of the installation location (no extension cords). Hope this helps!
Where in Minn are you? Faribault here.
If the screen needs replaced due to pets or kids damaging them, is this a DIY project or will it require repairing by a manufacture tech?
I've been in the market for a multipurpose oscillating tool. But I didn't see your recommendation in the description. Did I miss it somewhere?
I’m glad to see I wasn’t the only one that couldn’t find it!
So sorry about that!! I scheduled publishing and intending to add the links but ran out of time. My recommendation would be the Dewalt multi-tool - great brand and I found it on sale for a really great price at Home Depot right now: homedepot.sjv.io/zaz2ax
I have that 20v Dewalt one and it is the best, with variable speed and led light it is so much smoother and nicer to use than the fist corded one I bought a few years ago,
@@noshsreqd I'm heavily considering upgrading my Rockwell one because the sale price is tempting!
@@WelcometotheWoodsBlog That is a great price.
Hiya dear lady, I've just found your channel and I'm very impressed. You were pregnant? I just thought you just liked pasta a bit too much? The strip along the bottom is known here in the UK as 'Brush Strip' Stay safe, Steve...
I don’t have enough service to watch the video.
No wonder you need something to do!
But the baby is going to be DIY when she grow up .....yeah it’s a good thing
How much this cost? I want this on my lanai😊😊
Wow can’t believe you are doing this pregnant. 👏
how is it wired in?
They can be hardwired, but we plugged ours into an exterior outlet
What part of Minnesota are you guys in?
We live in central 🙂 About an hour away from Minneapolis.
@@WelcometotheWoodsBlog Very cool! Nice to see others in the area:)
Barefoot painting, nice.
Dang you're good !!! Ur husband is a lucky fellow !!! Do you have a sister ???
I have four actually and they're all married lol