Maybe think of your porch floor a little more like a roof ... I, too, have an old house with incorporated porches (front and back) that sit over top of a full basement foundation (brick with original stucco.) We restored the back porch as a "sunroom" (it was closed in some time in the 30's) and I noted that roofing tar paper was used between the sub floor (plank) and the original T&G porch floor. There are shreds of roofing tar paper hanging on the edges of the bottom of the front porch floor where I can find it, but the old wooden floor was replaced with plywood and then the porch floor was tiled by POs (a bad DIY with 1 inch grout lines that leak like crazy, making my repair job that much more difficult.) The pitch on both porches is good (away from the house) There are low shingled walls all around the porches so water would be trapped without some sort of system to remove it. The front porch uses a pitched trough with 2 exit tubes at the foot of the short wall but I found no evidence of this on the back porch. These 2 devices (the roof paper and the trough) surely would have worked well if they were maintained, alas, the metal trough is rotted thru and leaves/critters were getting into the basement till I discovered the holes and band-aid-patched them till I can address repair of the trough properly. (interestingly, the front porch foundation was hidden behind a finished wall in the basement and was only found when we had a termite inspection done.)

Any sort of tile or stone could not be installed on this structure as is. The current structural setup would need to be known so you could beef it up properly. You could do vinyl tiles, sheet vinyl or linoleum. The linoleum would actually be age appropriate. Ron

I am looking to replace the tongue and groove flooring on my 1913 home. Its covered, but will get wet with snow and rain. Menards in my area has TAG pressure treated pine or douglas fir. I would like to stain it to match the ceiling on the porch, but also because its a peeling mess now which it part of the reason we want to replace. Cost wise i'd like to do the AC2 treated boards, but i'm not sure how well it would look stained - it has that permanent green hue to it. Fir was the other option, and while a little more expensive, i'd rather it look good. I did see a note on the treated lumber saying it should be sealed on all sides, and not with just a water sealer - so it sounds like basically they want it painted - but i want to stain. Can i reliably stain AC2 wood and not have any warping issues after i get the boards down. As far as fastening it, i was thinking of predrilling and using stainless trim head screws through the tongue. Can anyone offer some advice to my situation? Does anyone stain their TAG porches, or would it be best to paint? I just want the finish to hold up for more than a couple of years, and stain seemed like the easiest to redo when it was time.

Any suggestions on a color that would be compatible with Hunter’s Hollow paint?