Don't do it! Seriously folks, our back porch floor, which is now a roof because the space underneath has become part of the office, requires rebuilding bigger and better than it was. Being a roof is a very responsible job, almost as responsible as being a floor. 
A microlam beam was put in below along with new joists, noticably differenrtiating between the side under the kitchen nook and the new bit. 
For a while we had an odd view of our back door overhead, a suicide door if opened and exited accidentally from the inside of the house. I felt like a character on the old CBC TV children's show "The Friendly Giant"... "look up, way up...."
Well, before you could call Rusty and Jerome, a plywood 'roof/floor' was installed and a drain set in the middle, with a plastic pipe leading through the joists,
down the south-east wall and outside where the original eavestrough will go back. 
Last week there was the stong smell of adhesive creeping into the kitchen and, peeping out the window, we saw the weather proofing membrane administered.
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