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cost of installing pergola or shade structure for patio
How much should it cost for installing an attached pergola or shade
structure for a patio? I am totally clueless as to how much is a fair price. If it matters, I live in the S.F. Bay Area. |
cost of installing pergola or shade structure for patio
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cost of installing pergola or shade structure for patio
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cost of installing pergola or shade structure for patio
Generally speaking, twice the cost of the raw materials... like others have
said, get at least 3 bids, talk to their previous customers, and look at their work on other jobs.. just about every decent carpenter/contractor has a 'brag book' of previous projects. Dave "Lil" wrote in message om... How much should it cost for installing an attached pergola or shade structure for a patio? I am totally clueless as to how much is a fair price. If it matters, I live in the S.F. Bay Area. |
cost of installing pergola or shade structure for patio
"Lil" wrote in message om... How much should it cost for installing an attached pergola or shade structure for a patio? I am totally clueless as to how much is a fair price. If it matters, I live in the S.F. Bay Area. You would have to have a size and design to determine the price. As others have said, it could be made from scrap pipe or you might want something with elaborate columns made of choice materials. I would go to a bookstore or the project book counter at a home improvement center and get a book on garden structures. Once you have a design in mind, call some people who do construction and get some estimates. |
cost of installing pergola or shade structure for patio
On 2 Jun 2003 22:25:05 -0700, someone wrote:
How much should it cost for installing an attached pergola or shade structure for a patio? That would be very highly dependant on how "fancy" you want it. Plain pressure treated 2x lumber on 4x4 posts, all with plain straight cuts, would be far far different than an elaborate cedar structure with Greek-temple style columns and decorative ends on all the horizontal pieces, even if both cover the same area. So much different that this would need to be established before even getting a ballpark price. -v. |
cost of installing pergola or shade structure for patio
It is impossible to give a cost without knowing the size and the types of
materiel you want to use but we have just constructed a covered patio and i can tell you the costs we had. ( My husband is a building contractor so this is for the materiels only and he and I did all the labor). Our patio consists of a 12 x 10 concrete slab, The uprights to hold the roof are treated 4x4 and there are 8 in total. The bands are constructed of 2 x 6 rought ceder and run length wise (6 peices of lumber to make a band at the front , center and back. The cover is made of 2x2 rough cedar peices spaced 3 inchs apart. In addition there is a post and rail fence made of 2x2 rough cedar around 3 sides. We recon on materiels we spent in the region of $1400 dollars ( that includes the concrete slab). It is certanly not cheap as the price of lumber is high partically here in the Texas Panhandle and this can vary with location. It would have been a little cheaper to have constructed it all out of treated lumber and cost alone prevented us from making it all out of rough cedar. If my husband was charging a customer for this it would have been in the region of $2000. The cost of labor in your area may also differ. I'm not sure if this is of any help but that is our experience, and now it is finished we just love it as it is a shady retreat to chill out in and plan our next projects. |
cost of installing pergola or shade structure for patio
The current "pergola" is actually a structure covering the "L" formed
by the back of the house and the attached garage. It is attached to the back of the house and the garage. It consists or two wooden support beams mounted on concrete blocks on top of a concrete patio. One of the beams has a big notch in it and is split vertically. The other is falling off the concrete block because it is merely connected to the concrete block by nails hammered into the beam. The roof consists of a green plastic material--siding?, and this rests on 2x4, spaced about a foot apart. (This was what the previous owner had "built".) The new pergola would replace the current one, but would make additional improvements, like increasing the number of support beams, decreasing the weight of the material covering the pergola, and finding a better way of anchoring down the support beams to the concrete patio. Because of the amount of rot, it's hard to gauge whether the pergola ismade of treated lumber or anything nicer. But for womething like Shawn and Sarah described, with a dimension of 8x10, should I expect it to cost about $5000 in the S.F. Bay Area? Thanks. "Shawn and Sarah" wrote in message ... It is impossible to give a cost without knowing the size and the types of materiel you want to use but we have just constructed a covered patio and i can tell you the costs we had. ( My husband is a building contractor so this is for the materiels only and he and I did all the labor). Our patio consists of a 12 x 10 concrete slab, The uprights to hold the roof are treated 4x4 and there are 8 in total. The bands are constructed of 2 x 6 rought ceder and run length wise (6 peices of lumber to make a band at the front , center and back. The cover is made of 2x2 rough cedar peices spaced 3 inchs apart. In addition there is a post and rail fence made of 2x2 rough cedar around 3 sides. We recon on materiels we spent in the region of $1400 dollars ( that includes the concrete slab). It is certanly not cheap as the price of lumber is high partically here in the Texas Panhandle and this can vary with location. It would have been a little cheaper to have constructed it all out of treated lumber and cost alone prevented us from making it all out of rough cedar. If my husband was charging a customer for this it would have been in the region of $2000. The cost of labor in your area may also differ. I'm not sure if this is of any help but that is our experience, and now it is finished we just love it as it is a shady retreat to chill out in and plan our next projects. |
cost of installing pergola or shade structure for patio
David J Bockman wrote: Generally speaking, twice the cost of the raw materials... like others have said, ================================================ I admit that I may be completely out of the loop because I am now retired but I worked construction (home remodeling actually) every summer when I was in college in the early 60's and the "Guesstamate" that was generally used was THREE times the cost of materials.... Kind of doubt that it has fallen... But like I said I am out of the loop Bob Griffiths |
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