{"id":2810,"date":"2012-07-31T12:28:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T17:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2012-07-31T12:28:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T17:28:39","slug":"making-pergola-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2810","title":{"rendered":"Making pergola progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

[today’s run: 3.5 miles – hot!]<\/p>\n

Over the last few days we have been working on our pergola.\u00a0 Here is a picture of the progress.<\/p>\n

As you can see, we have a small patio slab.\u00a0 Now we have three post bases built.\u00a0 That stake at the far end shows where post base #4 is supposed to go.\u00a0 We are using sono-tube form for all except one.<\/p>\n

We are going about it this way because we have some cedar posts which we would like to use.\u00a0 But they are a bit short for what we need.\u00a0 So we make our bases a bit higher.\u00a0 These things are 10′ apart.<\/p>\n

The plan is to have another row of 4 posts about 9 feet further from the house.\u00a0 For those we will use regular treated 4×4 posts and have about 3 feet in the ground.\u00a0 That will provide some lateral support.\u00a0 Then we will build beam\/joist structure above head height which will eventually have some wisteria or other growy shading stuff on it.\u00a0 Our goal is to make shade.<\/p>\n

We have not yet decided what to do about the walking surface.\u00a0 Some of this grass is doomed to be in the shade and that probably won’t work.\u00a0 We also have a bit of elevation change in the picture.\u00a0 I don’t know if we will build a deck-ish extension of the patio, put in more concrete, or do something else like stonework.<\/p>\n

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[today’s run: 3.5 miles – hot!] Over the last few days we have been working on our pergola.\u00a0 Here is a picture of the progress. As you can see, we have a small patio slab.\u00a0 Now we have three post bases built.\u00a0 That stake at the far end shows where post base #4 is supposed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}