![]() ![]() I also was not pleased with this and complained at the time. When exiting the front door, it looks like pps7's door with a small step down to the porch level. Our front porch is also raised several steps up. I remember having this same conversation with our builder and my husband when we poured our front porch. Common in some parts of the country and not in others? Maybe having a step up from the porch level is a regional thing. Otherwise I doubt OP would have ever consciously noticed that there was a step up in this case. A step up from porch level into the house would have defeated the whole accessibility purpose.Īnd, obviously OP is familiar with homes where there is no step-up from porch to door. ![]() We wanted our house to be handicap accessible and ran a sloped sidewalk from our driveway up to our porch so that one would not have to climb the porch steps. Eg., this one: Īnd I don't think keeping the door level with the porch is merely a new-fangled idea since one of the pictures you linked to is this lovely old front porch image: ![]() ![]() Eg, this one: īut others just as clearly show a door that seems to be set level or nearly level with the porch. With respect Worthy, some of the millions of pictures you linked to do show a door raised above the level of the porch by a fair amount. Since a covered porch raised above grade already serves the purpose of impeding water and snow from entering the house, raising the door above the level of the porch doesn't seem to serve much purpose - except maybe to make it easier to hose off the porch. I don't think OP was complaining about the door being "above grade." If I understood OP correctly, they have a stoop (a/k/a porch) that is above grade and then their door is raised above the level of the porch by another full step. ![]()
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