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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m hoping to hop on the screened porch train in the next couple of years! We have a large deck the previous owner put on - it’s only a few feet off the ground and I’m hoping a portion of it can be converted into a screened room though I’m sure they’ll have to improve the footers.

Here’s my question for those of you that have screen porches! Is a typical that the entrance to the screen room is from inside the house or do most of you walk onto a deck or patio area and then go in an outside door to the screen room?  I feel like it would possibly be a lot cheaper to just have the screen structure built with a door we must enter from being outside already.  But is that bad? Do bugs get in more and defeat purpose?
Would love some feedback on the entrance issue![/quote]

We are also in the planning process of adding a screened porch. We have considered the option you are describing - more like a free-standing porch a few feet away from the house. It would make our construction easier since we have a single story house and wouldn’t have to tie into the roof in that case. But we decided not to do it that way because we want to be able to just leave the house door open to the porch on a nice day and to not have to go through two doors when we are bringing dinner out or whatever. I don’t think it would totally defeat the purpose of the porch, but I imagine getting a little less use out of it that way. [/quote]

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