Mark Rios
05-21-2006, 10:22 PM
I'm talking with a person about putting a pergola in their back yard. I've found a couple of designs but I need some information on types of hardwood for this use outdoors. I'm interested in both domestic and exotic material.
If you all would be so kind, I'd like wood type info of a few types so that we can decide on maintenance and cost issues. The wood doesn't have to be buriable, I can pour sono tubes and post brackets. But I would like to know about the treatment or not of the bottoms of the posts (setting on the brackets) of the particular types of wood. Finishing or not would, of course, be determined by the type of wood and would be a factor in what is used.
Thanks very much for any help and advice you can provide.
If you all would be so kind, I'd like wood type info of a few types so that we can decide on maintenance and cost issues. The wood doesn't have to be buriable, I can pour sono tubes and post brackets. But I would like to know about the treatment or not of the bottoms of the posts (setting on the brackets) of the particular types of wood. Finishing or not would, of course, be determined by the type of wood and would be a factor in what is used.
Thanks very much for any help and advice you can provide.