Comments on: How To Build A Garage Pergola https://www.younghouselove.com/building-a-garage-or-carport-pergola/ Home Decorating & DIY Tutorials Tue, 23 Jan 2024 02:59:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chad Pfeffer https://www.younghouselove.com/building-a-garage-or-carport-pergola/comment-page-4/#comment-3984881 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:50:28 +0000 http://www.younghouselove.com/?p=57829#comment-3984881 What a great idea! You are taking something that some might consider a minus in a house, no garage, and making it beautiful! I love it!

]]> By: YoungHouseLove https://www.younghouselove.com/building-a-garage-or-carport-pergola/comment-page-4/#comment-1658555 Sun, 10 Nov 2013 13:47:03 +0000 http://www.younghouselove.com/?p=57829#comment-1658555

In reply to Richard.

Sounds awesome! My advice would be to plan things out a while, get a permit and follow code to the letter, and measure twice & cut once. Generic, but solid advice. Good luck Richard!

-John

]]> By: Richard https://www.younghouselove.com/building-a-garage-or-carport-pergola/comment-page-4/#comment-1658352 Sun, 10 Nov 2013 03:40:21 +0000 http://www.younghouselove.com/?p=57829#comment-1658352 Thanks for this. My plan would be a from-scratch shed style (angled) pergola carport, with some skylights to expose daylight to house windows covered by the roof. it seems I could use much of your plan. Any advice?

]]> By: YoungHouseLove https://www.younghouselove.com/building-a-garage-or-carport-pergola/comment-page-4/#comment-1616762 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 22:27:40 +0000 http://www.younghouselove.com/?p=57829#comment-1616762

In reply to Julie.

Aw, all the best of luck Julie! Hope it’s awesome and totally worth all the trouble when it’s done!

xo
s

]]> By: Julie https://www.younghouselove.com/building-a-garage-or-carport-pergola/comment-page-4/#comment-1616733 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 21:13:38 +0000 http://www.younghouselove.com/?p=57829#comment-1616733 Also, for some reason I’m only now just seeing that it took you guys 4.5 days. For some reason I had it my head that it only took 3 days and I was wondering why I was so slow :-)

]]> By: Julie https://www.younghouselove.com/building-a-garage-or-carport-pergola/comment-page-4/#comment-1616732 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 21:12:50 +0000 http://www.younghouselove.com/?p=57829#comment-1616732 I spent a good chunk of my labor day weekend on this project, and I have to say that you guys make it look easy (in a good way)! So far all I have completed is a single knee brace, and there may have been some tears involved trying to make all the knee brace bits line up…and it may be a little off in some places. I also realized from looking back at your pictures I didn’t include the filler block on the knee brace, and have no idea really how to attach it anyway. Ha!

Thanks for the plans and commentary to help me along, I don’t think I would have tackled this without seeing you guys do it first. Hopefully I’ll get mine finished sometime this week (without any more tears). Mine is going to hang over a sliding door in the back yard – sort of like in the plan pictures.

]]> By: YoungHouseLove https://www.younghouselove.com/building-a-garage-or-carport-pergola/comment-page-4/#comment-1576706 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 16:09:08 +0000 http://www.younghouselove.com/?p=57829#comment-1576706

In reply to Peter.

Thanks Peter! We used it for a porch project on our first house and 4.5 years later it looked great! We were sure to keep the paint coverage nice and thick and whenever we saw anything peel we just went over it with another coat of exterior paint. Pressure treated wood is awesome, but it can’t be painted until it has “dried out” and we didn’t have time to wait for ours to do that in this instance :)

xo
s

]]> By: Peter https://www.younghouselove.com/building-a-garage-or-carport-pergola/comment-page-4/#comment-1576703 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 15:39:01 +0000 http://www.younghouselove.com/?p=57829#comment-1576703 Hey guys, The pergola looks really great! It really adds a lot to the front view of the carport. In the future though please please please use pressure treated lumber when working outdoors. No amount of primer and paint is sufficient to protect untreated pine. It will rot. It is just a matter of time. Buy pressure treated #1 material from a lumberyard and it will be kiln dried and ready to paint right away. Once again though, it looks great keep it up!

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