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Posted by Edward Hennessey on May 6, 2008, 12:25 am
kujo8me wrote:
> I'm new to building things for myself but I tried and I have new
> respect for the people who do this for a living. I saw a design
> in a
> book and it called for 4 by8 beams with a box of the same around
> the
> perimiter of the patio and a checkerboard pattern on the inside,
> and
> lattice panels held in place with 2 by 2's. I have 19.5 foot
> square
> and have posts every 10 feet around the perimeter of 4*6's i
> have
> 4*6*20 treated beams going across held in with 6 inch lag screws
> 3
> for each beam on each side and i have one of those every 45
> inches.
> The plan calls for 4*6's to be cut and placed the other
> direction
> held in with angle brackets. is that to much weight to be held
> up
> without a post in the center of my patio (where my table goes)
> if so
> does anybody have any solutions to this problem.thanks in
> advance
>
> Paul
P:
I have another suggestion for you to tumble. If what you want is
filtered
light, look at the various meshes of greenhouse shade cloth. It is
a lot lighter
than lath, doesn't need painting, gives a uniform dispersion of
light instead
of the staggered light of lath, does much better wind screening
and it is not terribly
expensive to have made up in edged and grommeted panels that can
be
affixed to supports in a number of ways. You might get wind whip
in
some locations on a big panel though.
Your notations permit of more than one interpretation. Clearly
differentiating what
superstructure you have in place now, outside, I assume, a
concrete pad, from
what you want to put up will help. If you don't get real top
heavy, I've seen some
work along the line of your notion that pleasantly incorporated
pipe as supporting
elements. For that matter, if you wanted to use pipe or track
overhead, you could always
grommet the shade cloth with rings to make the whole covering
slide back
on gloomy days.
I don't have any immediate information on dedicated track elements
but a greenhouse
supply outfit would. Good catalogue request idea.
Regards,
Edward Hennessey
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