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- 1). Set your flooring boards out on the ground, facing down. Coat the back and sides of each board with primer, using a paintbrush. Allow the primer to dry overnight.
- 2). Measure the porch length where it's attached to the exterior wall, perpendicular to the direction of the joists so your tape measure is crossing all of them.
- 3). Mark out the measurement onto a length of porch flooring. Cut the board on a miter saw to that length.
- 4). Set the decking board along one edge of the porch, sitting perpendicular to the joist and crossing all of them. Set it so the groove side faces the wall and sits ½ inch out from it (to allow for expansion of the wood). Secure the board by shooting finishing nails straight down through the surface of the board at each point where it crosses a joist.
- 5). Lay the next plank alongside the first, locking them together along their long sides via their tongue-and-groove edges. Nail down the second board by shooting the nails through the exposed side of the plank, above the tongue, at an inward angle, putting in one nail at each point where the board crosses a joist.
- 6). Repeat and continue, laying planks across the whole surface one by one. Use a table saw to length-cut the final plank as needed to fit.
- 7). Paint the surface of the porch with primer and then with paint. Let it dry for 24 hours.
- 8). Cut trim to run along the line where the porch surface meets the wall. Nail it in place with your finish nailer, covering the space you left alongside the flooring.
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