Our 90 year old house has a front porch that is falling apart ... then there may have been enough water up in the roof framing to cause some structural damage. If the porch has an access opening ...

(AP) - Front porches ... when “porch” just meant a covered entry over a door. The portico, the precursor of all porches, originated in ancient Greece as a formal framing device that defined ...

But on a hot summer day last week, when most folks would have preferred to sip lemonade on the front porch, we were rebuilding one. We had shade, thank goodness, from the jacked-up porch roof.