Pergolas are beautiful wood structures built to provide shade, privacy, or full cover from the rain. We build our pergolas out of douglas fir, cedar and spruce. We can customize your pergola to fit any space, shape or style, and be design them to carry snow load (if required).

We offer two main types of pergolas; Standard and Timber Framed, along with two types of covering, open/shade or covered/polycarbonate .

Our Standard pergolas are built from dimensional lumber, (2x6,2x8,2x10,4x4,4x6) and can be made from douglas fir, cedar, and spruce. Our standard pergolas use these materials given their simplicity and product availability. Standard pergolas lend themselves well to having an open/shade covering as they often can’t meet the snow load requirements to have a covered roof, but some of our designs can make snow load possible.

Timber Framed pergolas are made primarily from douglas fir and are made with rough sawn lumber. The size of boards can vary greatly from 2x10 all the way to 12x12, and larger. This allows for bigger and stronger pergolas to be made with larger clear spans between posts. Timber framed pergolas can also easily be designed to support snow load making them the perfect option for a covered/polycarbonate roof.

Open/shade coverings are used to provide shade over a surface area, but cannot be fully covered. In Canada, we are limited to no more than 50% of the open area of the pergola to be covered. This allows us to make slats or intricate designs in the pergola to block the sun as long as we stay below that threshold.

Covered/Polycarbonate roofs go overtop of the pergola structure to make them water proof and provide greater shade. With this, the pergola structure must be designed to support snow weight that may fall on it. This requirement changes by region in Canada. In Calgary this requirement is about 32lbs per sq ft. This makes the design of the pergola very important and lends its self better to a timber framed structure.

Below are some combinations of each.