A plague of unpleasant things is a large number of them that arrive or happen at the same time. The city is under threat from a plague of rats. Last year there was a plague of robbery and housebreaking. If you describe something as a plague, you mean that it causes a great deal of trouble or harm.
Adding the Screen Frames. 1  1. Add the wall studs to the sill plate frame. The studs are heavier lengths of wood that attach to the porch walls, running vertically from the floor plates to the ceiling plates. 2  2. Install the wall studs. Be sure to check the width of your screens. 3  3. Position and attach the balusters and rails within the screen frame.
The house roof pitch is 4:12. We are planning a shed style porch roof of metal roofing panels to match the house roof. We plan to tie the porch roof into the house roof 6 feet up from the front eave of the house roof. The porch will extend 6 feet out in front of the house, so the porch roof will be 12 feet, front to back. If I am calculating correctly, the pitch of the porch roof will be 2:12.