Thanks for help on my other question about putting a pergola on a slab. I’m going to cut the concrete and sink some piers. I want to do it right and only once. Which Leeds to my next question. How close can I build it to my house. Right now I have a design that will require me to sink a couple of post in front of a window. The house is stucco so can the window be replaced from inside the house if ever needed? And also I have a Jacuzzi motor on the second floor that I have to have access to. that is why I don’t want to attach the pergola to the house. Then i would have to break the stucco.and flash and caulk. So I think it would be better to build it free standing. So should my distance be 18 inches or 24 inches is there a standard? Also my pergola will be 17 x 35 feet. So I will have to be creative and break it up. So would it look better with 4×4 post or 6×6 post I’m thinking 6×6 post.
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If you are placing two columns in front of a window, it sounds like you need design help. That is a boo-boo from the start.
Post some photos or a drawing and you can have more suggestions than a Mormon has wives.
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A pair of posts blocking a window?
Not if I did it.
I was thinking the post in front of the window was 17' out from the house, in which case it could be alright. If you're talking about posts right in front of the window though, I think you're headed in a bad direction.
Pictures:On jpg27 is about 20 feet from the corner of jpg23. So I was trying to design it around the material that is available. Anything over 20 feet I will pay a big premium. So with the patio being 35 feet wide from the corner of jpg23 to the middle window of jpg24. And the 20 foot mark falls in the middle of that window. I hope I explained it right. So what I was going to do was split it. I was going to make to separate ones. 17 x 17 feet each. And try to put some type of decorative element in the top of the two to join them together. I'm waiting for questions and ideas. But I did figure that putting the post in front of the window was not right. Thanks
Edited 5/8/2009 2:02 am ET by Hat
I don't know why the pictures did not upload any way here.Hat
Your location screams for a ledger, properly flashed, properly attached, running the length of the house.I understand your fear of penetrating the stucco, but the alternatives are either full-length lumber (which you have said is prohibitive), or way too many posts.
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can you get a shot stepping back away from the house looking at the whole face that shows the top of the wall and roof as well as the other. I have two nice pictures of a set of patio furniture and grass that needs mowing ( mine gets its first trim this weekend too, if it quits raining) but no view of the rest of the house. it's funny like that - sometimes we need close detail shots and only get long panoramas and sometimes we see closed detailed shops but not the whole picture.
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And here is what you want to see I hope. I think you guys are right it screams a ledger board. I might try and find some one to put it up. I have never put one up on Stucco.
I would NOT run a ledger on that myself.I'll see later if I can pull some design idears together.
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