How to build an easy & cheap garage door pergola

Hello in this video we are build a cheap easy garage door pergola. There is a material list after the intro so have your pencil and paper ready. I hope y'all enjoy and I would love to see a picture of your outcome in the comments and if you haven't subscribed yet please do. Also if you have any questions feel free to ask and if you have a project you would like to see built leave it in the comments and ill try to get to it. As always thanks for watching and until next time keep makin dust!!!

[@alexb8823]

This definitely deserves more views. Great video.

[@keepmakindust]

Thanks!!! I hope you subscribed because I have a few videos ready to go I’m going to shoot for one a week thanks for watching!!

[@curiosita65]

Awesome tutorial, thanks so much!!

[@keepmakindust]

Glad it was helpful thanks for watching!!

[@CDRConstruction]

Thanks for the video I will giving this a try!!

[@keepmakindust]

hope you do and send a picture!

[@samlouie7754]

nice work bud

[@keepmakindust]

I appreciate it and thanks for watching

[@iChuyito]

Great video

[@keepmakindust]

Thanks for watching if you happen to build one I would love to see pictures

[@Pete.Ty1]

👍👍👍.Thank you

[@keepmakindust]

No thank you for watching!!!!

[@timothysmith1654]

Great video. I didn’t catch the length of the 6x6. Trying to make something pretty similar here.

[@keepmakindust]

I made mine 22” but if you don’t want the same overhang you can customize really you can’t get it wrong as long as you like the look

[@daveyurik]

@@keepmakindust Brady can you confirm that 22" length on the 6x6 ? I'm putting mine together and where the 45 degree 4x4 hits the 6x6, I have a much larger space than the 1" that you have on yours. Also It looks like the top horizontal 4x4 cross pieces stick out from the garage wall face about the same distance as the 6x6 making it more like 16 1/2 to account for the vertical 2x6 behind it. Thanks. Dave.

[@keepmakindust]

@@daveyurik hey Dave I think your right I believe I made it 18” I’m not great at documenting all my measurements because I fairly new to creating content also this is something I was building for work so it is at a customers house that I don’t go by very often. With that said thanks for the catch and I hate I told the guy earlier it was 22” hopefully he figured it out anyways yea if you make the 4x4 18” the 6x6 should be around 18” sorry for the bad info I hope this helps. I did keep the horizontal 4x4 off the face of the garage because I didn’t want leaves and debris getting in between the 4x4 and the face and creating issues down the road

[@daveyurik]

​@@keepmakindusti just finished mine. great video guide you made. thank you so much !! i would add a pic but i dont know how !!

[@keepmakindust]

@@daveyurik awesome I bet it turned out great

[@SuperCheeseburger7]

Thank you !

[@keepmakindust]

Thank you for watching hope you enjoyed!!

[@512galko4]

How would you mount through limestone? Still with structural screws?

[@keepmakindust]

Yes but you will need to drill holes through the stone with a diamond bit then use your structural screws

[@tomtam9241]

Good explanation! Thank you! I am planing to grow confederate jasmine vine over it. That means additional weight. Do I need to drill through the wall? How would you secure it to ensure it can carry the load?

[@keepmakindust]

So if your going over a garage like I did here there should be a double or triple stud pack on the sides of your opening if you go with some structural screws maybe 1/4x6 or 3/16x6 that should be plenty or holding strength. Also I don’t believe the vines will add a huge amount of weight. I think you will be ok also great chance on the vines I love confederate jasmine and the smell!!!! I would love to see pictures and if you do build thanks for watching and good luck

[@sheralynromrell865]

Thank you for this! What did you use to mount your brackets to the house? Structural screws? If so, what size? If not what worked?

[@keepmakindust]

You’re very welcome and I did use structural screws 1/4”x 4” and I put 6 per bracket. Mind you I was hitting studs with 3 per side I feel that’s pretty important so you know the screws can hold the weight. Hope this helped and thanks for watching

[@512galko4]

What kind of wood did you use? I have kiln dried available in my area. Do you think that would suffice if stained with semi transparent outdoor stain?

[@keepmakindust]

You can use kiln dried but it won’t be weather resistant only dry and ready for a stain. I would build it then stain it the a couple coats of sealer then install. You will need some type of waterproofing to keep your wood from rotting I would hate for you to spend the time and money to build one of these and it not last.

[@512galko4]

@@keepmakindust thank you! What kind of wood did you use?

[@keepmakindust]

@@512galko4 I used pressure treated pine and I let it set in this Florida sun for about a month to make sure it was dry before I built it so the stain would take

[@karimcdonald4674]

So you double up the 2x6x16 on the mounting side and the front? Or, why did you nail the 2x6s together? Is one 2x6 against the house not adequate?

[@keepmakindust]

I did for two reasons one was for strength because that’s a pretty good span and the other is because my door was 16’ and i wanted some over hang on both sides so I could have done 20’ boards but I would of had to order them. The 16’ boards are readily available so I could go ahead and build it. I hope this answer helps let me know if you have any other questions thanks for watching

[@davidh8928]

@@keepmakindust Thanks for this video. I have a clear-up question as @Karimcdonald4674. Did you run screws through the back into the siding over the garage to secure that Doubled 2x6 to the house? Thanks again.

[@keepmakindust]

@@davidh8928 I did not I left a gap between the 2x6 and the garage so it wouldn’t collect leaves and debris and create a problem in the future. With that said you could screw it to the garage if you like

[@chrissteppat1573]

Do you need to cut the siding away first or just mount it right on top of the siding?

[@keepmakindust]

I mounted directly on top and then went around the base with silicon to stop and water intrusion through the screw holes. If you wanted to cut away you could but you would need to run j channel around the base

[@nordy777]

In the materials list, it says you need 1 4x4x8. I can’t get 9 18” cross pieces and 2 18” pieces for the brackets out of 1 8’ 4x4.

[@keepmakindust]

You are correct it was supposed to be 2 4x4x8 thanks for the catch I’ll put something in the description

[@abrenajordanferguson8467]

Love video. Where are you located?

[@keepmakindust]

Hey thanks for watching I’m out of northwest Florida

[@tomrobinson5231]

The cross bracing explanation starting at 8:56 is super confusing. "8 and 10... measure both ends, add that number together and divide by 2 and get 24" " What in the world am I supposed to do here?

[@keepmakindust]

So the 8 and 10 are to get to 18’ which accounts for the overhang over your corner braces the scab board your using is 16’ and that’s so you can scab the 8’ and 10’ together and still have a double header so you can span the distance without a lot of sag you should have appx. 12” on each end that is only one board wide but you want to make sure you have the same one board overhang on each end. I watched this video again and agree there are some instructions that are hard to understand I’ll try to do better in the next videos. Thanks for watching

[@keepmakindust]

Also if you have any other questions please feel free to ask

[@tomrobinson5231]

@@keepmakindust Ah! Got it now. Thanks so much for the quick response and clarification. I think I'm going to build this pergola! Wish me luck!😬

[@keepmakindust]

@@tomrobinson5231 good luck and if you have any questions I’ll get to them as soon as I can usually after work. The main thing is have fun with it

[@nordy777]

In the materials list, it says you need 1 4x4x8. I can’t get 9 18” cross pieces and 2 18.5” 45° pieces for the brackets out of 1 8’ 4x4.

[@keepmakindust]

You are correct it was supposed to be 2 4x4x8 thanks for the catch I’ll put something in the description

[@nordy777]

@@keepmakindust No. I had to run back to the lumber yard to get a 4x4x10’. There are more than 16’ of pieces here. I will finish today tho and can’t wait for the finished product. I should have done the math myself before going to pick up the lumber.