Your kit may be cut or it may not be so just double check, sometimes they will have a pre-cut slot straight across here in the center to receive the knife plates unless it is a specialty kit like this one is. Because this project is over twenty feet, again then we have got these 2×6’s that we cut down and then spliced for some extra four foot pieces because it is over 20 feet.
Relax and enjoy cooling summer breezes in the hot summertime while looking forward to the comfort of a warmer winter with a covered patio or porch. Click here if you would like more information on designing or remodeling a porch or patio with a DIY timber frame pergola kit ; or have a pergola installed for you.
If you are interested in home improvements and DIY projects a timber frame pergola kit from Western Timber Frame is an easy DIY project that can dramatically improve and give a backyard a brand new makeover in as little as one afternoon. The fun thing about these attached timber frame pergola kits is how fast it installs because of its pre-cut, pre-tested, layout design that sort of goes together like Lincoln logs.
An overhead pergola gives some added protection from implement weather for year use. Ease of install Longer lasting Higher quality Reduce warping, twisting Gap exposure No hangers Fast Installation Pre-drilled Layout Min possibility for mistakes Pre-stained Posts Mortised All Fasteners Eased Edge on all timbers A Western Timber Frame™ called The Dovetail Difference™ is a joint system that allows for the natural seasonal expansion and contraction of timber pergola joints with its mortise and joint system.