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.
Shovel the concrete into the foundation tube, filling it to the top. Once the concrete reaches the tube from the bottom of the hole, add two pieces of rebar to the concrete about every 6 inches until the tube is full. Anchor the posts to the footings.Use either post anchors, which are placed directly into the cement, or a galvanized steel post base, into which you place an L-shaped anchor bolt in the middle of the footing. The shape of the bolt will hold it securely in the concrete. Push the post base slightly into the concrete.ig the footing holes to a depth below the frost line. In some areas, this depth may be 4 feet. Frost heaves have tremendous force and can push the footings upward, causing damage to the porch. Place a foundation tube in the hole to reach about 3 feet down.