How to Build a Pergola Attached to Your House | Mitre 10 Easy As DIY

A pergola that is attached to your house can be a great addition; it’s a good way to create a useful sheltered outdoor area and give you shade from the sun. It will also add to the visual appeal of your house. See how to do it yourself with Mitre 10.
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[@StayActive2000]

Soon I'll be a master builder watching all these professional DIY tutorials 😊✅️

[@mitre10nz]

Too right! You'll be a pro soon! ^Cam

[@stevey7059]

Very impressive, precise, easy to follow, I'm not watching the Bunnings one anymore as they just rush it through in 3 minutes for every DIY videos while you're spending 30 minutes to teach us, well done.

[@nnaheim.]

This host is great, straight to the point and no fluff, great work.

[@thomaswallendorf2013]

Love that the local guidelines are mentioned. Many people forget about mentioning this.

[@sarahcross2534]

This guy is great! Simple and straight up directions and local knowledge

[@monrejameson2038]

Just bought a new home, and you are officially my new favourite person 🙂

[@michellewood6030]

OMG this video / instructions are so awesome, I feel confident I could rebuild our rotting pergola myself - the previous owner built it using 'indoor' timber.😬

[@mandjstephens]

You are heaven sent!!! me and my husband want to do a pergola that goes attached to our house :) we have absolutely no experience doing these things, but seeing you do it makes me confident. I can see us watching this video for reference like 100000 times when we get to it! lol :D thank you!!!

[@JeffMilesbizdoctor]

An amazing set of instructions. Absolutely brilliantly explained. Great presenter.

[@klmbuilders5385]

I'm a career carpenter and the best part of this video is hearing him talk and all the different terms for common building things!

[@mariah4451]

So many useful tips in that video to use in smaller jobs as well. Nicely filmed and edited too. Thanks

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[@rich3633]

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[@mitre10nz]

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[@David_P132]

"Joist hangers look absolutely terrible" - well said! Very good video, best I've seen on the subject; great workmanship. Greetings from across the ditch.

[@hawthornekennedy3919]

Decorative mechanical fixtures can add to the finished product. Black powder coated hangers would look sharp.

[@Woodkin007]

Could have just used white hammerite on them. So much easier.

[@kellyhopper6621]

Excellent video! Clear, concise, and simple to follow. THANK YOU!

[@mitre10nz]

Thanks so much for the support Kelly 🙌 ^Cam

[@clarkkc11]

I love New Zealand accent with construction. Absolutely Brilliant.

[@KarelKeklak]

Love it too mate. Just not sure if he says "rodeo" or "radio" all the time? Cheers from Czech Republic :)

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[@KarelKeklak]

@@kennethscharvi8577 Thanks mate. I lived in NZ for about a year, but it has been while since then. Love Kiwi accent, sweet as.

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Until he says "deck"

[@dfer3693]

Thank you for sharing . Gathered some "Handy , Dandy " Tips.. Great workmanship.

[@mitre10nz]

Awesome to hear, thanks heaps for watching! ^Cam

[@yvesharvey6417]

Excellent détailled présentation step by step. All comments clearly transmitted, even for à french canadian. Need just to adapt for frost line . thanks Yves harvey

[@mitre10nz]

Thanks for your feedback Yves, we really appreciate it 👍 ^Billie

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By just watching your professional videos, I feel like I have done master digree in it. many thanks

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Glad to hear you're finding them useful ^Charlie

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[@mitre10nz]

Thank you Steve for the feedback - appreciate it mate.

[@remzonfelix]

Thank you for using the metric system!

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[@JohnMaxwellLandon]

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[@mitre10nz]

Cheers! ^Matt

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[@farayra33]

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[@mitre10nz]

Good stuff! Can't wait to hear how you get on ^Matt

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[@mamanucafiji8041]

This is great teaching. Thank you sir.

[@joannemurray3628]

I love your videos! You show and explain every step very clearly. Useful tips too. Easy to understand and follow. I get really inspired to start building when I watch these. It's a shame that the person who built the pergola on the house I bought didn't watch this video first. I've got to get out there and do some reno's on it. It's a shoddy mess, unlike the lovely one you just built.

[@chasematthews212]

Awesome stuff mate 😎🙏🔥

[@hellodarling420NMain]

Well done and clear instructions.

[@joheffernan7216]

Beautiful job, nice aesthetic detail in both the project and production. Wish we had materials readily available here in US , such as exterior, treated, laminated post. I've been agonizing about ripping out box store 4x4s that look more like 16' cork screws after three years.

[@noureddine309]

very very helpful and useful tips. many thanks.

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great video as always Stan is a true professional !!

[@dozyproductionss]

Love the constant 'righty O'. Hopefully that's all I'll be saying on my own project.

[@mitre10nz]

Fingers crossed it all goes smoothly for you! ^Rhi

[@zacmarincic2961]

Beautifully done....excellent!!!

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Nice job and instructional video. 👍

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The chisel...most underated tool.

[@mitre10nz]

It comes in pretty handy at times ^Matt

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Absolutely brilliant video. Thank you SO MUCH!! 🙏💥

[@mitre10nz]

Thank you so much for the awesome support! 🙌 ^Cam

[@glennboyd1549]

Good vid. I work from the top down/temp props for front beam/ put posts in last. Working out rafter spacing on ribbon ( pitch) plate 5.753 m minus rafter thickness ,then divide by 6 spaces. That still gets centre to centre but it gets one side of each rafter. So it's then just a mark then a cross , mark and a cross and so on. Check if the house wall ( where the beam starts from) is plumb. Don't assume it's plumb . If it's 5mm away ,then add 5mm to beam length. I would probably leave the beam a bit long and cut it off up there. I normally rebate the posts to fit to the beam and use 2 cup head bolts through beam to post. With the roof battens, I also shoot them to the rafters like you do but as a high wind will lift up the weakest part, I drive in 1 long bugle to each intersection. If it's only shot with 2 nails per intersection, the battens will twist in time. If I ever do a pergola with rafters going over the top of the beam and overhanging , I weld up a special U shape shoe the slips onto the underside of rafter and has a welded down tab to screw 2 teks into beam and on the U shaped bit, I screw 2 teks into the rafter.I do that to every second rafter.That's for the reason of high winds.I don't like to use the pryda triple grips because I think they look ub\gly.Thats another reason I weld up my own design ( less ugly and very effective. If I put polycarbonate roof sheet up, I install folded metal sheet that caps over the top face of the batten ( width of batten with 10mm down folds.) Reason for that is you can only paint the timber once before the sheeting is installed and it doesn't take long for the sun to do it's work and wear out the paint. The metal flashing will protect the timber way longer than the paint will. Lastly, when I do end flashings to each end of an iron roofed pergola/ verandah, the standard way to finish the flashing, is to do a 10mm fold back in to touch the timber rafter. While it looks neat, the rafter will require replacing in a number of years. The alternative is to do the 10mm fold outwards. It might not look as pretty.( still looks okay though) but the rafter will last many times more years than the other method because water will be deflected away from the rafter. That's either from rain or cold , frosty, icy mornings. :)

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As an American, my favorite part is the "Rightyoh"

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Thanks so much for the support Brendan! 🙌

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Very well put together. Really enjoyed this.

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who watched the whole thing and still called a professional out to do it?

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Good explanation

[@mitre10nz]

Cheers 👍 ^Billie

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Thanks mate.

[@lonbeatty3349]

Great video! Very well put together.

[@mitre10nz]

Thanks for that, Lon! ^Ryan

[@andymac46]

you couldn't come to Ireland and do a job... by any chance.. brilliant video... well done

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Great videos guys. Thank you

[@The_Handyman_Can]

Such great detailed explanations as you went, good pace, and easy to understand. I’m curious why you didn’t check your beam onto the posts instead of looping and sitting right on top? I felt the extra fastening would improve the join strength and still look good when finished. Thanks for sharing!

[@mikewaters6861]

After moving back to NZ after building in Perth Aust, I can't believe the backward way builders work here! The best and most efficient way is to cut out and prop your pergola / Verandah in the air. Set the pitch angle and or height, then when this is square and level you measure or scribe the post and cut the length prior to bolting or concreting in place.we would do this even with heavy laminated hardwood beams or steel frames.

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[@robbawden9855]

I agree Mike. Installing the posts cut to the correct length (because this part can be done horizontally at ground level on a drop or slide saw) is better than cutting freehand with the circular saw at height and on the side.. too much room for error.

[@suetheron4495]

utterly beautiful work, such professionalism. Can you please do my pergola?

[@pedrolopes4489]

Really good work! Congrats!

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Perfect job.

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[@Aka47marco]

I love it very clean job and nice looking 👌

[@charlesmilligan1416]

Is that galvanised strapping sufficient fixing for the downward force and weight of rafters?

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great video tutorial

[@TK42138]

Great video, well explained.

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[@rneustel388]

I love the look of this house, and the pergola is the perfect tropical "cherry on top!" Is that a pet door in the French door?

[@dmitrii1255]

yes

[@ambrosiotang42]

I like it, the step by step instruction is well explained and the job is great, but will this polycarbonate roofing stands the Canadian winter ? I'll like to build one myself.

[@TheClaudos]

It would be hard to know, because our winter seasons in NZ are nothing compared to what it would be like in Canada particularly snow conditions. However, wind, rain and hail, these are no problem for polycarbonate roofs.

[@marsflee3815]

This guy makes a clean job. (Real pro)

[@untitledlabel]

awesome add on, I recently did something similar

[@mitre10nz]

Awesome! Thanks for your feedback 👍 ^Billie

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Thanks

[@firstnamelastname7476]

WARNING: that sika epoxy anchoring can 'spit' towards your face when you rod the hole so wear eye protection. it's on the instructions so it's not a hugedeal they didn't mention it. great video as usual from mitre 10/this bloke. (please, no jokes about spit coming on your face when you rod holes)

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[@jrgal27]

26:55 even if its nice and tight in middle it would be crucial to check properly that you have not bent the beam out. righty oh

[@richardday2893]

Thanks for the great tups..

[@fangorn1000]

good job. thank you for sharing.

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very detailed video, Awesome

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O cara é fera 👌

[@QUIX4U]

OK, so what about one that' positione at the END of a 7.5M wide building, that is no more than 4M to the BASE of a very high concrete wall, on top of which is an extra height corrugated iron rence? Making the pad at the end of the house 4x 7.5 = 30sq M exactly. The PERGOLA would thus be UNDER the height of the top of the fence, (which borders a road/street) and thus is thoroughly inside the confines of the property at the end of the house, meaning it's height "above" any existing structure would be a MINUS figure, so could it therefore butt hard up against the base of the concrete wall itself? The top of the wall "leans towards the road, as it is NOT a parallel structure, but wider at it's base and thinner at the top of the concrete which is a minimum (up there) of 150mm on top of which sits a 125mm thick post and corrugated iron fence. The concrete pad (as that's all that grows there) is fully from the house to the base of the concrete, (4M) with a faint fall towards the wall, so that rain/snow etc cannot drain towards the house, but away from it, to then run down along a gutter at the wall, before draining down the driveway away from the wall, past the house, into the back garden where it soaks in. We also get rain draining in from the street, to join at the end of the wall. As an aside, as I am now in a wheelchair, so we "park" the car such that I can transfer from the car into the house (as easily as possible with one leg), to get into my "chair" inside the door. Oh and the view is irrelevant as there is a dirty great MOUNTAIN directly across the road from the house so sunlight/sky views aren't all that great after 4pm. So having a pergola "blocking" that view is also irrelevant. Nothing on the hill, except scrubby bushes, lots of rabbits, a few tame and stray cats and farmed GOATS, yeah they run goats on there as it's too steep for anything else. Hence why we wanted a pergola (roofed with clearlight) to avoid the adverse weather when I go to & from the car/wheelchair. Thus - what's your view? 30square meters at the maximum, footed directly onto an existing pad, Oh and yes, we are resident in the best part of NZ - at it's mainland center.

[@stevetipene3319]

kia ora, when you were figuring out where to cut the post opposite the stairs you got your level line from under the rafter and then took off your 193mm off that line which would have actually made the post around 145mm shorter than it should have been!!

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Your videos are very good. Why don't you put a description on your Channel Description? I'd will help people to get to know your channel even more. Thank you!

[@jerrypolete5258]

Righty O mate! Love it!

[@mitre10nz]

Thanks for the support Jerry! 🙌 ^Cam

[@chrisc6504]

the raffters would be better if they were notched and housed into the wall plate, the straps will only hold the two together but the weight of the raffter will not be supported correctly and joint will be weak.

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[@whatsmyageagain1000]

The rafter holds itself with the 5 degree cut at each end.

[@kathhart3751]

Just so easy thx

[@gerrybrownlee3217]

Thanks for video

[@automatic7713]

EXcellent advice & you are very skillful, but in my opinion the ccorrugations look very dated now.. any reason why you didn't use flat twin wall sheeting ?

[@williamnorris1380]

Well done

[@fjficm]

this guy is good

[@levimust4479]

Beautiful work. Guess it doesn't rain much there though.