Pergola - trusses - blocks (new!)

Our pergola is made with aluminium trusses, and basically not attached to anything. It's not light in total, but with stiff winds we've seen the whole structure being lifted up a bit, and banging down again. We did not like that much. We prefer not to have a totally fixed permanent structure. Both because we don't know exactly how and where, and want to be flexible. But also because they tax fixed structures like pergolas.

So, ingenieur Jansen went to work and made concrete blocks with a threaded M14 rod inside the concrete. Holes in the bottom plates of trusses, rings, bolts, and ready.

Pergola Ibiza Style

As of today we are in an Ibiza Style Pergola atmosphere.

Truss Pergola

The pergola now is twice as big, almost, and is now two times 5 x 4.5 meter.

These shade sails are last year's, and are now attached provisionally.

We want something like this.

Retractable

Pergola // Trusses

Experiments

Trusses yes and no GRETVERRDRIE! // Damn!

The trusses have arrived!

 Oooh, such a nice corner box!

Two 250cm trusses connected. And no, they don't bend. Wonderful!

And now we find out we need 16 of these while we ordered only 12. D@MN! BL@ST!. So, another week waiting till these 4 thingies arrive @ 4€ a piece.

But, Zoomba is really getting better, so we do not complain. Really. From 15.4 to 16kg in a week!

Pergola and Trusses

Now the terrace is shaping up it's time for a pergola, for shadow. You can build pergolas in one hundred and a half way. It seems that we are going to do something with aluminum trusses. You know trusses, pop concerts, and so on. Aluminum alloy beams made of tubes with zigzag joints, like:

Those who likes it can check out the GlobalTruss website. A delicious meccano system with liggers, corner pieces, etc, in all sizes and shapes. And even arches, ideally suited for romantic bowers.

The intention is now to fidge a construction in front of the house, where at the top a piece of fabric is positioned for shadow. Here's a simple impression of a 12 meter long pergola with the "deco" truss variant F14, 10x10cm, and also with the larger (and more expensive) variant F24, measuring 29x29cm.

Dont forget to imagine some climbing flowering plants.

This is 18 meters, 3 sections of 6 meters: