How to Install a DIY Timber Frame Pergola Kit; Touch Up 10/12

Continued from: DIY Timber Frame Pergola Kit; Setting Roof Rafters & Shade Planks 9/12

Here once the roof is on we do a little bit of the touch up. And for any of the nicks, any of the markings that happen during installation that might need some additional touch up. Just keep in mind that it is normal if it ends up taking forty-five minutes to an an hour and a half to just walk through and touch up to make it nice and neat again.

We have it touched up, stained everything is completed. You can walk underneath it and notice that you do not see any lags, bolts, hangers, hardware in the roof. Everything is done from above. You have got that beautiful wood to wood connection on all pieces. You can see how tight these joints are with the dovetail. As the wood expands and contracts since it is outdoors it will do nothing but get tighter because it is a tapered beveled cut behind it.

We are finished up with the pergola. over-size-hot-tub

We do put a final little plague on the post here so that if there is any questions or concerns or any additional information that is needed, you know where to contact us at westerntimberframe.com. We have even go the posts down on knife plates and you don’t see any of the steel or aluminum plate.