This is the Pergola that I built this summer. It took me 3 full days to finish with the help of one other person the first 2 days of the build.
Warning….this video does not cover all the steps needed to build a pergola. It is meant to show you what is possible in 3 full days with only 2 people. Total build of 30 working hours.
Materials:
– 4 6x6x10 post
– 4 8x2x16 beams
– 16 6x2x16 joists
All pressure treated.
– 4 metal concrete post brackets
– box of concrete screws
– box of high load screws
– box of deck screws (3” & 2 1/2”)
– 8 carriage bolts
Extras:
10 4x2x16 (side wall)
8 4×8 lattice (roof shade)
This pergola just stands onto my concrete patio stones using metal brackets, concrete screws and 2 support points to the side of my house.
Hopefully this inspires you to build one yourself.
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Thanks for the video. Next time, instead of telling us what you did, it would have been helpful if you videotaped what you did. Then we could have seen it being done. However, your Pergola looks great.
How did you attached to the house wall? From one angle it looks like there are joints connecting the pergola to the wall of the house.
How much did it cost you?
Did you use treated wood?
Great project! Your video production quality is shit though.
How tall were your 6"x6" posts?
3 1/2 inch screws are not holding much on the third 2X4
Tragically awkward
Not bad. Looks great! As a DIY video, though, you really should have had more instruction on the "how's" of building it. For example, you went from laying the joists (where all that's seen is the basic frame), to finishing touches, spending a lot of time talking about the kind of screws and how you mitered the footings, but not HOW you built the far slat wall, or attached the joists to the beams, or anchored the structure to the ground, etc. Also, for other DIYers, it's way better to notch the support beams and lay the cross beams into the slots, using lag bolts to hold it together, ESPECIALLY if you live in an earthquake zone! As it's build here, all the weight of the entire overhead structure depends on the sheer strength of what looks like two lag bolts on each corner. Notching the support beams transfers that weight to the beams themselves. Still, it's a beautiful addition!
Listening to you is like listening to someone eat chips
Nice touches and nice looking job.
How did you fasten the 6x2x16 joists to the beams, your video skipped that and went straight to "Finishing touches".
Other than the concrete screws that you showed us in the video did you use anything else to secure the brackets to the concrete?
How did you attach the joists to the beams?
What was your finished size 16 x 16 ?
The posts by themselves when they are free standing, do they sway quite a bit until you get the top beams attached?
How did you attach the 16 joists to the beams ? I see no notching ? But I might have missed it thanks