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No, from myself. That was for enclosing the entire porch -- not the half like I have proposed. I have it in an Excel doc somewhere -- I need to search for it.

I averaged 1 2x4 for every foot, insulation, OSB flooring, hardwood flooring/tile, drywall, another door, etc. and I was up to ~$8k before figuring in certain 2x8's, bathroom fixtures, etc. The siding we used was either a) really expensive when we built our house or b) it has greatly increased in cost.

Am I looking at this right? porch is 8x32. So wall sqft is ~9' high x 8' wide x 2 (side walls) + ~9' high x 32' long (for the whole porch) = 432 wall sqft. Each piece is $11.96 and cover 4.33 sqft per the manufacturer. So I would need roughly 100 pieces... so roughly $1200 cost is in siding. Now I can pull off some of the siding I have on the exterior wall facing portion of the porch but I think I wouldn't have enough and I would lose some due to cracking during removal.

Here is the siding from Menards:

http://www.menards.c.....c-5833.htm

Thanks K. It gets trickier because we imagined the living room extending onto the porch -- so that wall/window would be removed. The top plate of the wall is only 2x4's -- not a larger "beam" supporting the trusses of the roof if that makes sense. After thinking about it some more I was hoping to put in a bathroom and do some trickery with the front door so that it would still support the weight of the roof and the unsupported wall portion would be as short as it could be In the mock up below I think it would be ~ 10.5 feet unsupported. I was thinking I could span that with an added beam from the corner of the house to the edge of the bathroom.