Andy Mac
18th September 2006, 03:58 PM
Hi there,
Just thought I'd share a couple of photos of a job I've been busy with at home over the last 4 weekends- a pergola and railing.
The concrete deck was on the house when we bought it: exposed and hot, high and not very safe for little 'uns, an obviously unfinished job. It had two sets of steps coming off it, wider at the bottom, with no banisters, and a mate almost snapped his leg one night during a State of Origin!:eek:
Anyway, I recently scored a near new pergola for $200 if I took it down and transport etc, and it was a kit job from Stratco or Clearspan or similar. It just happened that it fitted almost exactly over the deck with those angled corners, only 1m short;).
So the first photo is from the driveway, and you can make out a barren area on the right where one set of steps were. Rocks indicate a new garden bed.
The railing and the 2 end uprights are steel, although the original posts were aluminium. I made the railing so they screwed to the posts with teck screws, using welded cleats at the ends. The timber is cheap palings ($2.10 per 1.8m) which I docked in half and put through the thicknesser, then hand planed the arris'es all round. Timber is mixed hardwood mostly spotted gum, which I coated with Cabot's decking oil before fixing them, and they've come up well.:D
Cheers,
Just thought I'd share a couple of photos of a job I've been busy with at home over the last 4 weekends- a pergola and railing.
The concrete deck was on the house when we bought it: exposed and hot, high and not very safe for little 'uns, an obviously unfinished job. It had two sets of steps coming off it, wider at the bottom, with no banisters, and a mate almost snapped his leg one night during a State of Origin!:eek:
Anyway, I recently scored a near new pergola for $200 if I took it down and transport etc, and it was a kit job from Stratco or Clearspan or similar. It just happened that it fitted almost exactly over the deck with those angled corners, only 1m short;).
So the first photo is from the driveway, and you can make out a barren area on the right where one set of steps were. Rocks indicate a new garden bed.
The railing and the 2 end uprights are steel, although the original posts were aluminium. I made the railing so they screwed to the posts with teck screws, using welded cleats at the ends. The timber is cheap palings ($2.10 per 1.8m) which I docked in half and put through the thicknesser, then hand planed the arris'es all round. Timber is mixed hardwood mostly spotted gum, which I coated with Cabot's decking oil before fixing them, and they've come up well.:D
Cheers,