How to Install a DIY Timber Frame Pergola Kit; Setting the Posts & Beams 6/12
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.
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. 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.
DIY Timber Framed Pergola Kit; Setting Roof Rafters & Shade Planks 9/12
On this one here we are going fourteen inches past, yours may be twelve. They are going to start pulling out and putting on each of these layouts.
How to Install a DIY Timber Frame Pergola Kit; Prep for Posts 5/12
We have come down and then one is going to be set at nine feet. So you note here we get the general height that you know your pergola is going to be and we will leave about 1 1/2 to 2 inches on each post; leaving it that much long so that you can have a little bit of cur off to vary for your concrete or slope in the concrete.
How to Install a DIY Timber Frame Pergola Kit; Knife Plate Layout 4of12
This is going to be for an eight inch post so I would mark out eight inches all the way around so that your inside and outside of the posts are marked out. So we will end up putting a switch here in the center as well.
How to Install a DIY Timber Frame Pergola Kit; Square Up Posts 3of12
Right now we are going to square up this concrete patio, measure the pad. That’s going to tell you exactly what your dimension is between the posts.
How to Install a DIY Timber Framed Pergola Kit; Setting the Knee Braces 8/12
That is just going to really hold it in place until we are ready to put the lag in through the bigger holes and then we have plugs for there as well. So once they are plugged both sides we will go ahead and just touch them up with some stain there.
How to Install a DIY Timber Frame Pergola Kit; Attached Pergola 11of12
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.
How to Install a DIY Timber Framed Pergola Kit; Other Notes 12of12
This post here we have notched out for a light switch and you can see the one inch hole back there and it also goes up through to the top as well. The center one may very well be just a little bit smaller to make up that extra 18th inch.
How to Install a DIY Timber Frame Pergola Kit; Getting Started 2of12
That is going to be your first two by six on the ends and then we’ve got a mark. You may have a little bit of surface cracking and begin to open up and show the unstained wood beneath so you’ll have things like this that will begin to open up just a little bit.