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Step-by-Step Pergola Assembly Guide

A pergola can be built to create a passageway or seating area in a garden. The document provides instructions for building a basic pergola, including preparing the area by marking post positions, installing posts depending on ground type using spikes or bolts, and assembling the structure by placing rafters in post cutouts and connecting with screws. Consider location, access, and footprint before beginning construction.

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Step-by-Step Pergola Assembly Guide

A pergola can be built to create a passageway or seating area in a garden. The document provides instructions for building a basic pergola, including preparing the area by marking post positions, installing posts depending on ground type using spikes or bolts, and assembling the structure by placing rafters in post cutouts and connecting with screws. Consider location, access, and footprint before beginning construction.

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  • How to build a Pergola
  • Assembly

HowTo_Pergolas 28/02/2011 15:12 Page 1

How to build a Pergola

Pergolas can be used in the garden to create a passageway or to


frame a seating area. Tools required:
• Tape measure
Grange offers a wide range of project kits as well as individual • Power drill
components to allow the creation of your own personal vision. • Spirit level
• Hammer
A basic pergola project is explained here, however, the basic • Sledge Hammer
procedures, from installing the posts to fixing the rafters, will
be the same whatever design you choose.

PREPARATION OF THE AREA

Consider the location carefully before proceeding. For a domed pergola project, the best method for determining the positions of
Where will the sun be at the time of day you use it? the posts is to pre-assemble the roof and use this as a template for the posts.
What access is required?
Check the dimension between the roof rafter ends and ensure that they are
Determine the footprint equal. Mark the position on the ground for each post. Remove the roof assembly
required for the pergola and prepare the holes for the posts.
proposed. Ensure the area
is clear and mark out =
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the positions for
the posts.
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Measure diagonally across =
the area to ensure it is square

INSTALLING THE POSTS

Posts are common to all pergola designs and For soft ground you have a choice of either Whichever method is chosen, make regular
how you install these will depend on the installing the posts directly into the ground checks with a spirit level, during the
ground conditions. using MetCrete post fixing concrete (this installation, to ensure that the posts
method will require buying longer posts) or, remain vertical.
For solid ground such as a patio or a use Metpost Pergola Spikes.
concrete hardstand area, install your posts
using Metpost Pergola Bolt Downs fixed with
Metpost Anchor Bolts.

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HowTo_Pergolas 28/02/2011 15:12 Page 2

ASSEMBLY

Site and install the posts using the chosen method of fixing. Use a Drop the rafters into the post cutouts as shown. Ensure that they are
spirit level during the installation to ensure that the posts are vertical. horizontal and that there is an equal overhang at either end. Fix each
rafter into place with two screws driven through the posts at either end.
All Grange architectural posts have a cutout at the top to enable the
location of Grange Rafters
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Mark the centre position of the fixed rafters and fix a Metclip to each Drop a rafter into the Metclips and adjust to ensure that the overhang
rafter. Mark the positions, equally spaced, where the remaining rafters at each side is the same. Fix the rafter into position using screws or
will be situated and fix Metclips at each position. galvanised nails through the pre-drilled holes in the Metclips.

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How to build a Pergola PREPARATION OF THE AREA INSTALLING THE POSTS Pergolas can be used in the garden to create
9 ASSEMBLY Site and install the posts using the chosen method of fixing. Use a spirit level during the installation to ensure

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