How to build a wooden pergola with your own hands. Basic rules for construction and decoration

In ancient times, pergola was built exclusively to support grape vines, it was more convenient to clean the harvest. Today it is a facility is a garden decoration and a place for privacy. Build pergola is not difficult, the main thing is to have construction materials and know the sequence of work.

Before starting work

The first thing to do is to schedule the location of the pergola. Most often it is installed next to the barbecue, protects against the heat and serves as a wonderful holiday destination. Another good location of pergola is the terrain of a pond or any reservoir. You can use pergola just like a summer gazebo.
After deciding with the place, sketch a small plan to understand how many materials may be needed. Most often are the pergolas with dimensions of 2.5 m x 1.4 m. But everything, of course, depends on the wishes of the owner.

Required tools and materials:

1. Screwdriver.
2. Hammer.
3. Shovel.
4. Staples, brackets, nails, wood screws.
5. Antiseptic for wood.
6. Wooden bars for supports, side and transverse beams.
7. Top panels.
8. Concrete solution.

All other materials depend on the project and the wishes of the creator.

The main rules of construction

Some certain rules, how to build a pergola of a rectangular shape or in the form of a wooden arch does not exist. Each builder allocates its rules, but if you collect them together, you can allocate common:

1. The roof should have a good bandwidth. The rays of the sun should penetrate it at any time of the daylight.
2. The construction of the roof occurs on the principle of "blinds", that is, the boards are mounted under the necessary angle and from the eastern part to the Western. As a result, the rays penetrate well at dawn, and at sunset, and in the midday heat they are absorbed by the boards. And it turns out that it is very cozy in the heat in this pergole.
3. Before proceeding with the construction of the structure, you need to think over its design and configuration. Almost all pergolas are made from wood, and only can sometimes meet with stone supports. But they are quite expensive due to the fact that natural materials are used.

Entering pergola

The most important thing when building pergola is wooden with your own hands is to isolate wood from touching with the ground, otherwise such a structure will not last long. In addition, the tree must be processed by an antiseptic or varnish so that insects do not start.
Construction work

1. In the ground to wear wooden poles.
2. Between the bars consolidate the crossbar and bars across.
3. Drop the pits for the supports - the depth of the half-meter, it all depends on the height of which it will be pergola than it is higher, the deeper the pit. The width of the pit must be centimeters on 20 be more support.
4. The bottom is well tumped and installing support.
5. Flip rubble and pour concrete supports.
6. Using the level, they check that the installation is vertical and leave for a day to make the concrete.

Supports are sometimes placed in metal glasses, which were previously immersed in a concrete foundation.
After the solution is dry, and the supports are tight on the spot, you can start the installation of the product. It is necessary to attach horizontal beams to the supports, you can use both self-draws and brackets or nails.

One of the most faithful attachment methods is called a thickening connection. With it, a spike is placed in the end edge of the beam and also an hole for spikes is made in the location of the beam, and as a result, the design becomes even stable. Further, at the same distance from each other, across is attached to the horizontal crossages of the beam.

Beams walking across, it is necessary to attach nails, and it is necessary to do it on oblique, and not at an angle in ninety-degrees, otherwise the design can be fused under strong gusts of the wind. Now it remains to attach on the pergole and wooden trellis to horizontal beams. Trelliers should not touch the ground, otherwise they will begin to rot.
At the end of the installation of pergola, you need to think over small details, which will be cling to the plants in the future. It may be ropes, network, thin veneer, hooks and others.

Roof and back Pergola

The roof of the design is similar to a web, which consists of planks. Metal strips are attached to their side ribs, and then the planks themselves are mounted by self-drawing to lags. The main difficulty is that there is a lot of small parts here to maintain the right form.

If there will be any hearth inside the pergola, then the roof needs to be treated with a veil. No need to be afraid of a fire, there is no such thrust in the arc as in the furnace. The heat dissipates and blows out through wooden lattices pergola. Therefore, it is necessary to protect those inside the pergola from a hot flame, especially if the side wind blows. To do this, we need to pour pergola with a wooden wall, it will serve for those who sits and the back. With the bench, she let me perform on the meter, so she will be slightly above the head of the one who sits on the bench.

Before mounting the wall, you need to mount transverse beams between the supports, so the wall will be more stable. You can use for these purposes, furniture corners. The transverse beam needs to be installed above the benches, in the place where the sitting people are based on the wall. So that the wall looks more aesthetically, it is possible to make its upper part of making a non-standard form.

How to bring the back

1. For the upholstery of the back, you need to take the boards, the length of which is 15 cm. With such a length, the drafts will not penetrate and below.
2. Boards should not touch the Earth, otherwise they will be charged and they will have to change them soon.
3. The boards need to be treated so that the surface is smoothed, and there are no unnecessary gaps.
4. Between the boards, you need to leave a small distance, it is necessary so that the air inside the pergola is circulated. In addition, the boards have a property to expand in the rain. And if you do not withstand the distance between them, they are very quickly deformed and crack.
5. To navigate the boards, you need to take finish nails. Their caps need to drown into the boards so deep as possible. Now you can start painting.
6. So that the rain water does not absorb in the wood, you need to thoroughly paint the top ends.

A lawn can be planted around the pergola, and the design itself is usually attached to curly plants. In order for the plants to be more convenient to be placed on Pergol, there are a grid with large cells in its windows, in the form of a clamp.

Decoration pergola

Ready pergola needs to decorate. There are several options:

• To decorate the pergola with eastern tubes, which, with each gust of the wind, make a gentle melody. You can also perform all pergola in oriental style.
• The main support is worth decorating with a fluger, it will not only perform its main function - to show the direction of the wind, but also to scare birds. Because feathered - big lovers sit on pergole, and can very much appearance design.
• Next to the pergola, you can equip the pool, then this place will definitely become a beloved place to relax in summer days and evenings.

• Inside Pergola, you can put a sofa or shop, put the pillows, make yourself a full-fledged place to relax.
• If after all the scenery it seems to you that Pergola still looks like a pretty figurine next to her, well, if they are in the same style with all the garden and the conservation itself.

Plants for pergola

Initially, Pergola was built so that plants that could not grow under the right rays of the sun had good protection. Over the years, people to the standard form pergol began to add new elements and decorate different colors. So the pergola of the wooden has become the favorite element of the garden design in many nations, after it is built, convene friends to admire, and the photos are boasting with laid out. And plants, as they grow, modify its appearance.
Before buying seedlings, you need to calculate how plants will be cleared, taking into account their color scheme and growth manners.

When choosing greens, you need to adhere to such principles:

1. Liana and curly plants should be in the latter.
2. On average - greens having an average height.
3. And in front of growing those who are stealing on the ground or lowered.

Required when planting plants, it is necessary to take into account their photosensitivity so that those who like the shadow did not turn out to be in the sun and vice versa. Here are some examples of greenery that is suitable for disembodies near Pergola:

1. Hop.
2. Vintage wild.
3. Rose curly.
4. Ordinary fruit grapes.
5. Cyrus.
6. Honeysuckle.
7. Clematis.

These perennial plants can be allegedly alternate, fit well into the overall picture:

1. Sweet pea.
2. Bean curly.
3. Lagenarium.
4. Nasturtium.

Sprinkling plants - it was still half an end, the main thing is to properly care for them. Climbing bushes are planted near the frame, with the growth of their branches and trunks are tied up, then they are cut into to betray the necessary form. But whatever plants you choose, you need to remember that pergola is not a seasonal garden decoration, and it should look worthy at any time of the year.