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Pergola repairs?
"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message T... One of the Casualties of the strong winds has been our 30' pergola, this is the second time the 4" tanalised uprights have snapped in strong wind and I have concluded its just not strong enough! I have reluctantly decided to build the pillars up in brick but before I order bricks wondered if any Urglers have used any other method to create the uprights? I didn't know for instance whether there are any square section products like the things you build chimneys out of but in something a bit more decorative than rough concrete, looking to end up with something around a foot square -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea How about 4 x 4" uprights forming a square about 15x15" and filling in with bits of trellis? |
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Pergola repairs?
"rupert" wrote in message ... "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message T... One of the Casualties of the strong winds has been our 30' pergola, this is the second time the 4" tanalised uprights have snapped in strong wind and I have concluded its just not strong enough! I have reluctantly decided to build the pillars up in brick but before I order bricks wondered if any Urglers have used any other method to create the uprights? I didn't know for instance whether there are any square section products like the things you build chimneys out of but in something a bit more decorative than rough concrete, looking to end up with something around a foot square -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea How about 4 x 4" uprights forming a square about 15x15" and filling in with bits of trellis? Its a thought, but I am on my 3rd set of tanalised 4" posts now in 20 years, its not so much the expense of replacing them but the upheaval, the whole thing is covered in roses which makes replacing anything hard work! -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
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Pergola repairs?
"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message
... "rupert" wrote in message ... "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message T... One of the Casualties of the strong winds has been our 30' pergola, this is the second time the 4" tanalised uprights have snapped in strong wind and I have concluded its just not strong enough! I have reluctantly decided to build the pillars up in brick but before I order bricks wondered if any Urglers have used any other method to create the uprights? I didn't know for instance whether there are any square section products like the things you build chimneys out of but in something a bit more decorative than rough concrete, looking to end up with something around a foot square -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea How about 4 x 4" uprights forming a square about 15x15" and filling in with bits of trellis? Its a thought, but I am on my 3rd set of tanalised 4" posts now in 20 years, its not so much the expense of replacing them but the upheaval, the whole thing is covered in roses which makes replacing anything hard work! -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Hi Charlie, I have a 4x4" post in the garden which I use as the upright of a bird feeder. It is supported on one corner only by angle-iron and it has never budged - and it is fairly exposed. Could you do something like that? It would be fairly inexpensive and simple to do; you may not even have to move the roses. Spider |
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