Screen house project.

The garage was at the rear of the property of our home in Staten Island, and since there was no driveway, at the suggestion of a friend, I turned it into a screen house. We had rented the first floor of our house, and used the second and third floors as our living space. We had a back butler staircase and some cement steps that led to the backyard, so the screen house was ideal. I eventually grew trumpet vine up the posts of the pergola, over the lattice and all across the roof. 
All in all it wasn't a really hard job. The only things I had help with were tearing down the shorter side part of the garage, which was over the cement slab I built the pergola over, and running the roll roof over the existing leaky roof. If anyone would have filmed me it must have been comical to watch me try to balance the 4" pressure treated post el's that I had to rest on the brackets I'd already installed on the side of the garage. Once I screwed my posts in the pergola was set. There was a side screen door I installed to enter the screen house and a closed in area at the rear for my mower and garden tools. 
That was just one of the projects I was able to do at our money pit of an over 100 year old house.

I forgot to say: The floor of the garage ended two feet from the barn like doors, and they rotted at the bottom. With them out, I made a form of plywood right at the front where the doors were and made a four inch wide and foot high foundation wall. Once that dried I took away my form and mixed more cement in my wheel barrow to fill in the two foot length of garage floor. Once that was done I built the front and added screening. We got allot of use out of our screen house. 

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