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Low-Maintenance Approach to Enclosing a Porch

Coastal Contractor

January/February 2009
by Paul Mantoni
Custom-sized aluminum frames with interchangeable glass and screen panels lengthen your customer’s outdoor-living season.

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Low-Maintenance Approach to Enclosing a Porch Custom-sized aluminum frames with interchangeable glass and screen panels lengthen your customer's outdoor-living season Paul Mantoni 1. The F-channels, upper and lower tracks, and H-channels - used to join aluminum storm-door panels together and to framing - are supplied long. Cut them to length using a chop saw; a standard trim blade works well. 2. Bed the base track in caulk and screw it to the decking. Attach the top track, which is deeper than the bottom one, the same way. Drill weep holes in the base track 3 inches from the ends and

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