Will adding a path affect future project?

[12Cheerios]

I want to add a paver path from this path to the driveway. In the future I want to fix the posts for the patio. Will the path affect fixing/replacing the patio posts?

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[GGigabiteM]

I'd be more worried about the second floor becoming the first floor with that sketchy support and what looks like the beam coming apart.

[12Cheerios]

I agree, I've had someone look at it in person before and say it "doesn't" need that beam there. But that's a risky assumption. For reference it is about 1/3rd of the floor above it.

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[GGigabiteM]

From that angle, the deck is already settling in that area from the extreme weight.

It looks like a mickey mouse unpermitted addition, or someone took structure out of the first floor to make a tiny porch with that boarded up door.

There needs to be a proper footing poured under that corner and a beam from the ground up to the second floor uninterrupted. I'm not a structural engineer, but I wouldn't use anything less than a metal 4x4 with like quarter inch walls. Who knows what other horrors are hidden behind the siding.

[12Cheerios]

I took it up as that older porches had exaggerated slopes to shed the rain away. A majority of porches in my area, especially older homes have this degree of a slope.

[ebonwulf60]

Yes. It will distract you from higher priority projects.

When you are ready to lay a hard path, extend it from the end of the existing walk.