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the porch is on the second level of the home. it has four columns that hold up the front portion of the roof. between the columns are railings and boulsters. originally, there was a two-story staircase that went from the ground level, up to the second story. we "closed in" the porch by...

my husband and i removed a superficial attachment to our second-story front porch (stair structure leading to the bottom floor) and closed off the porch about 6 months ago. the stair structure bore no load for the porch and the posts for the stair structure were barely 1.5 feet in the ground in...