HomeMade Pergola
11-03-2008, 08:42 PM
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HomeMade Pergola
7 long days of work quick couple grand made.
Clamping plates drilled & anchored into 3" of concrete.
6*6*10's are mo------- AWKWARD to pick straight up, not crash into a window or the pool and hit the anchor plates that have little clearance, then nail them in - all solo work baby! Even more awkward? Ever tried walking a 2*10*16 up a ladder solo? Yeah that's awkward as ----! LoL!
All framed up.
From the nosy *** neighboor's house. :P
Like notching and curving? 128 all together for the basic structure. That'll eat some ----------ing time!
Time for the trim! The upper moulding I custom routed with 3 bits.
Things to remember that made this a tough project:
Lumber is "demensional" as in... "About" this size or that. ALL the cedar I re-milled, some of it ran in a jointer (to give a REAL 90* angle), some of it I completely re-sawed from scratch on a large bandsaw. ALL of the pressure treated wood is ----. It cups, its warped, its incorrectly sized... That's just pressure treated wood. Its so god damned water logged when you buy it... Just running those LONG carriage bolts through the ---- made the 2*10's ooze green chemical. Cancer FTMFW!
LOTS OF NUMBERS. Hard to keep track of so much ----.
Just to begin with, that concrete isn't level, yet over a large span they are all within 1/8" in every deminsion but one. That's pretty mother ------- tough! Consider anyone you'd hire out works in "rough carpentry". As in... Nothing but big marks. Half inches, a good one will use 1/4".
EVERY cut has been routed with an end bit and finished sanded. All the cedar, hand sanded. If there is a cut, it god damned got routed and sanded to some extint.
Everything is drilled and screwed but the bolts. The trim is held with finish nails and glue. It is designed to make it easy to replace wood as it needs it.
There are custom cedar caps on all the posts, can't see them.
Also did the boxing, mounting and wiring for an overhead fan and 2 sets of exterior lights.
Will get primed and caulked by the owners soon so the cedar doesn't weather badly. Can't have final primer caulking and paint until the pressure treated wood (green ----) dries out in 6-12 months.) They'll do the fan, finish its box (put the lid on and seal it) and install the light fixtures. Their plan is a thick black canvas draped over the top for alot of shade, and cut long on the three facing ends to make some decorative Roman shades that can be lowered for; duh, more shade.
Final demensions are mid 7' * 14' 3/4 interior. Lowest joists are 7'4 high, interior joists are slightly over 8'. Exterior demensions are 9'+ * 15'8 * mid 9' tall.
Anyway, it was a fun, LONG, well paying project. Depending on the size, mid $5,000+ if anyone wants one.
Clamping plates drilled & anchored into 3" of concrete.
6*6*10's are mo------- AWKWARD to pick straight up, not crash into a window or the pool and hit the anchor plates that have little clearance, then nail them in - all solo work baby! Even more awkward? Ever tried walking a 2*10*16 up a ladder solo? Yeah that's awkward as ----! LoL!
All framed up.
From the nosy *** neighboor's house. :P
Like notching and curving? 128 all together for the basic structure. That'll eat some ----------ing time!
Time for the trim! The upper moulding I custom routed with 3 bits.
Things to remember that made this a tough project:
Lumber is "demensional" as in... "About" this size or that. ALL the cedar I re-milled, some of it ran in a jointer (to give a REAL 90* angle), some of it I completely re-sawed from scratch on a large bandsaw. ALL of the pressure treated wood is ----. It cups, its warped, its incorrectly sized... That's just pressure treated wood. Its so god damned water logged when you buy it... Just running those LONG carriage bolts through the ---- made the 2*10's ooze green chemical. Cancer FTMFW!
LOTS OF NUMBERS. Hard to keep track of so much ----.
Just to begin with, that concrete isn't level, yet over a large span they are all within 1/8" in every deminsion but one. That's pretty mother ------- tough! Consider anyone you'd hire out works in "rough carpentry". As in... Nothing but big marks. Half inches, a good one will use 1/4".
EVERY cut has been routed with an end bit and finished sanded. All the cedar, hand sanded. If there is a cut, it god damned got routed and sanded to some extint.
Everything is drilled and screwed but the bolts. The trim is held with finish nails and glue. It is designed to make it easy to replace wood as it needs it.
There are custom cedar caps on all the posts, can't see them.
Also did the boxing, mounting and wiring for an overhead fan and 2 sets of exterior lights.
Will get primed and caulked by the owners soon so the cedar doesn't weather badly. Can't have final primer caulking and paint until the pressure treated wood (green ----) dries out in 6-12 months.) They'll do the fan, finish its box (put the lid on and seal it) and install the light fixtures. Their plan is a thick black canvas draped over the top for alot of shade, and cut long on the three facing ends to make some decorative Roman shades that can be lowered for; duh, more shade.
Final demensions are mid 7' * 14' 3/4 interior. Lowest joists are 7'4 high, interior joists are slightly over 8'. Exterior demensions are 9'+ * 15'8 * mid 9' tall.
Anyway, it was a fun, LONG, well paying project. Depending on the size, mid $5,000+ if anyone wants one.
11-04-2008, 12:28 AM
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Re: HomeMade Pergola
Well you can either leave them like that and grow plants there (IMO making it more like a grossly large arbor). or you can put a material there to stop it. Most people do very heavy cloth, like what outside unbrella table material is. They're going to prime & paint this one flat or matte white & have a very, very heavy black canvas on it. I know that some people join like, gazebo's & pavilion, etc with them.
IDK what the technicalities of them all are, I just know pergolas are open topped.
IDK what the technicalities of them all are, I just know pergolas are open topped.
11-04-2008, 03:27 AM
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Re: HomeMade Pergola
i know thought the same thing. would look alittle better from the outside. doesn't matter for inside. they have large blinds and curtains on the windows so they can watch their 42" vizio in the fireplace TV box. it cant be higher, otherwise it would be in the roof line & to fix that the far post would be off the concrete. only other thing would be make it thinner, which they didn't want. they have a neighboor with one they wanted to one-up. their pergola is a more tradition 4*8' box with 4*4 posts and 2*6's.
