Continued from: How to Install a DIY Timber Frame Pergola Kit; Setting the Posts & Beams 6/12 We will put a bolt through once all four corners are done then we will be ready to lay up and get all the posts leveled. We then attach some temporary 2 x 4’s attached to the upper beam and we have it all lined up as in this example pictured right.
On the test pictured above, this pergola kit didn’t give until it hit over 11,000 lbs.!!! Pound them down nice and tight just so they are flush with the top.
For a timber frame DIY arbor, gazebo, pavilion or pergola kit, the drop in layout rafter beam are part of Western Timber Frame’s easy to install design features that makes a DIY kit so simple to install. This wonderful design gives it an arbor, pergola, pavilion or gazebo kit more strength which also results in a magnificent, aesthetically pleasing, old word craftsman style without the show of unsightly bolts, lags, hangers and hardware.