How to Build a Pergola Roof | Ep. 174

A pergola roof protects you from pop-up storms, so you possibly can lengthen your time outside.

Tyler Schwall in Cell, Ala., desires to put in a tin roof over his pergola. However earlier than he does this, he desires to know one of the best ways to place the roof so it has a pitch for rainwater.

First, purchase some pressure-treated 2-by-4s to cowl every slat on the pergola. Ensure that these boards are the identical size as those on the pergola.

Then, rip every 2-by-4 at a slight angle from its full width all the way down to nothing. Ripping a board means slicing it alongside its size. This can create a tapered strip. Ensure that the pitch of the roof is no less than two inches so the rain will correctly movement off of it.

Subsequent, apply some building adhesive on the slats and place the ripped boards on prime of them. This can add some additional waterproofing safety and hold them safe while you’re putting in the tin roof.

After you’ve positioned the ripped boards on the pergola, safe them with wooden screws. To maintain the tin roof from sagging, lay some 2-by-4s perpendicular to these. 

As soon as all of the boards are safe, set up the tin roof. 

Now, you possibly can sit outdoors beneath your coated pergola and benefit from the sound of the rain dancing on the tin roof. 

Skip to [21:58] for the total phase on the As we speak’s House owner Podcast.

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Leveling Wooden Patio Furnishings — Begin by boring a 3/8-inch diameter gap into the underside of every desk or bench leg.

Then, use a hammer to faucet a T-nut into every gap.

Thread a hex-head machine bolt into every T-nut.

The bolts carry the bench off the patio to stop rot, and they’re adjustable to make sure the bench is degree. 

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Clear-Lower Bolts — Right here’s tips on how to shorten a machine bolt — threaded rod or carriage bolt — with out messing up the threads.

First, thread two hex nuts onto the bolt, then make the minimize utilizing a hacksaw or jigsaw with a metal-cutting blade.

Then, spin off the nuts, one by one, utilizing a wrench if essential.

When the nuts come off the top of the bolt, they’ll re-cut and straighten out any threads that have been broken by the noticed, making it straightforward to string the nut again on.  

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Query of the Week

Q: I simply purchased my first home and I’m about to put in some engineered wooden flooring.

In accordance with the set up directions, the final row of flooring should not be lower than half the width of the planks. (The planks are 5 inches vast.) However the directions don’t inform you tips on how to decide the width of the final row.

Are you able to please inform me tips on how to determine that out? 

A: When putting in flooring, the preliminary structure goes to outline the success of the challenge. Don’t begin with a full-width plank and hope the final row is vast sufficient. 

First, measure the width of the room and divide by 5, the width of the plank. That offers you the variety of full-width planks plus any fractions.

If the final row is lower than 2½  inches, scale back the width of the primary plank. 

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