Screen Porch Floor -- Suggestions?

[Wayne Eikenberry]

If it were mine, I'd be real tempted to replace the vinyl siding with car siding like the rest of the room.

Ike

[Dave Richards]

Thanks Ike.

We talked about it before we opted to stick with the siding. Either way, I still have to deal with the floor.

[Art Mulder]

Paint + large cheap area rug.

[Darren Wright]

Are the outer walls sitting on that floor too?

Outside of the already made suggestions of tile, vinyl, or epoxy/paint. Re-pitching the floor for drainage to a pipe and a rubber type membrane over it, then cover with a floating deck floor, but might get a bit cost prohibitive and doesn't appear you have the room to raise everything 3"-4". Looks like that wasn't really designed to have screens in it, but more of windows and open when it's not raining or snowing.

Also, I'm not sure that the insulation in the outside wall is a good idea, not a bad one if you put windows in the openings, but right now it's probably more of a sponge than and insulator.

[Dave Richards]

Darren, you're right. There's no room to add anything to repitch the floor. It really was designed to be screens only. That's all we ever wanted from the beginning but we have insulated in case a future owner wants to put in windows and seal it up. We've made provisions so water won't get into the walls. The walls do not sit on the floor. There is about a half-inch gap around the exterior walls to allow for drainage but as I said in the beginning, the water doesn't drain because it is flat.

Everything I've heard from the various manufacturers of vinyl flooring says no go because of the temperature range it'll be exposed too.

[Darren Wright]

Sounds like epoxy might be a good choice, may need to sand it first if it's holding up overall and smooth out the places it's swelled.

[Matt Ducar]

I've never seen it used myself, but a company called Synta makes a "deck restore" product I've seen on sale at the Borg. Gives more of a textured finish than epoxy paint.

Let us know what you end up doing.

[Dave Richards]

Matt, I went to Home Despot on Sunday to look at that product. Frankly it is pretty ugly. The surface is very rough and looks like it would catch an awful lot of dirt. Might not be a problem on an exterior deck you could pressure wash once in awhile but I don't want to be pressure washing the floor in our screen porch.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.