[Jim007]

Originally Posted by 784caroline

Initially we were not going to raise the lanai floor but after talking to our contractor, he had another reason for raising the lanai floor. He said we live in a retirement community and people are just older. Although we don't view ourselves in that category, we will someday but moreso a lot of people who may visit your home are in that category. Well after that session, the very next week we were at our neighbors house who remodeled their lanai and did not raise the floor. They had the doors open and sure enough a neighbor who was older was walking and he tripped into the lanai almost falling while spilling his soda that he was carrying. We have also seen on other occasion similar situations of that step not being seen. It reminded us of some homes back in Va that had sunken living (or family) rooms and during a cocktail party there were more people falling than you can imagine.

SO we raised the floor and are very happy we did. Yes it cost about $1200 additional but we believe it was money well spent and who knows we may have prevented a potential future liability claim for we do entertain a fair amount. BTW in laying new concrete our contractor used a laser level to make certain everything was square and level. WE have no problems.

Our contractor was great in offering suggestions like that and well as ways to bock sun from coming in a new room that faced NNW, and how to use a window we planned to block. A good contractor will have ideas he has seen work..... Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks for the info. Who was your contractor?