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A photo of our old pergola. It's done in timber with white paint over it, and the roofing is polycarbonate. There's a vertical post in the middle of the longest span and the whole thing looks a bit shit.

A another photo taken from underneath the pergola looking out. You can see that the wood isn't very good quality and is rotting in places and the roofing has dust and mud on the top of it. It too looks awful.

A photo of the new pergola. It's done in white metal and looks clean and airy and SOLID. There's no middle vertical post for the longest span and it looks much more open now.

A photo taken from underneath the new pergola. The roofing is primarily white metal and there's two translucent fibreglass panels that provide a wonderfully soft and diffuse light.

New pergola is done! It looks SO much nicer, and it's much brighter underneath than I was expecting giving it's only got two light panels. I'm very excited about it not getting to be a gajillion degrees underneath it on sunny days, too. (Ignore the piles of dirt at the left and the lights hanging from their cables... the former we need to dump out at the back of the yard, and the latter we need to call the electrician in for because the new pergola needed to get fastened to that panel of wood that the lights were previously on.)

Posted on 15 March 2022, 13:22

A photo looking up over the hedge the next to our house, with a street light and some trees also visible, all silhouetted again the pre-sunrise sky. There's a hint of orange in the sky at the very bottom.

Man, it's been a while since I've been up before sunrise. I think the last time was when we went to New Zealand RIGHT before COVID hit in February of 2020. We're getting our pergola redone (yes, again), this time by someone competent. Had someone in to quote just for getting it fixed, and so much had been done wrong that it made more sense to rip the whole thing down and start it over again in metal rather than timber.

our house sunrise darkroom renovations pergola

Posted on 14 March 2022, 6:53

A photo taken from the underside of a perspex corrugated-sheet pergola with a bunch of holes in it where hail has smashed through.

Bloody hell, we just had some SERIOUS hail and our pergola now has a whole heap of new holes in it. 😐

our house storm pergola

Posted on 14 March 2019, 18:04