Norm, Tom, and Kevin were demolishing a two-story porch set on the back of a house. They of course started at the top and stripped down. On the upper deck framing it became clear as they exposed armies of carpenter ants and CDX plywood (the ply- was just this side of bark mulch) that the porch was not built properly in the first place. It was hard to tell from TV but the lumber looked like SPF (not suitable for to-the-weather framing) and that water could pool in places hastening its demise. Yet, there it was.
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