Pergolas are popular structures than one garden, where it serves as a place to enjoy sitting and relaxing or appropriately shaded area. What needs to be considered before you take a pergola?
Pergolas are popular structures than one garden, where it serves as a place to enjoy sitting and relaxing or appropriately shaded area. What needs to be considered before you take a pergola?
When to build a pergola
Pergola in our gardens again taken on a large scale. Build a
structure can handle a few days. You can build it in the period from spring to autumn. The sooner, the longer you serve in that season.
Where to place it
Pergola has to be a place where you sit with friends or relax with a cup of coffee and a book. So choose a location that is not on the windy side and also has good access from the house. Properly placed pergola can serve as a shelter for a barbecue or a shaded terrace and entrance area home.
How to select material
Most are wooden
pergolas from pine, larch and beech or oak. At least suited spruce or fir wood, which is not as durable and easily while working with spears into pruning. It is a very popular Canadian cedar, but there is no need for higher investments.
For most metals is aluminum. Pergolas have a very nice design, very low maintenance, construction is very easily assembled. You can choose many colors.
What will I use a pergola
Pergola may not only serve to shield the garden. It can also be used as:
- roof terrace
- shading grill
- front garden restaurant
- covered parking for your car
How to choose the size
Generally, the height of pergolas not exceed 220 cm. Higher space loses intimacy and a pleasant feeling at rest. Spatial dimensions can be adapted to your requirements such as the size terraces or width of space between the building and the wall, where it will become a pergola.
