[sunnybob]

Remember I was looking for plans for an adirondack love seat a while back.
well i made my own, but then the missus decided she needed somewhere to put them, so this is the result.

I made the chair, the love seat, the table, the pergola, and even the flower pot stand. (But not the tin buckets hanging on the wall)

 

[sunnybob]

Tom, I thought black widow spiders were only in australia?

we have scorpions here, but they are miniature not even an inch long and rarely seen.

we do have a lot of snakes though, 8 varieties, 2 of which are poisonous and one extremely so. Luckily its rare to see the poisonous ones. Despite them being "protected" by law, any one who sees one while out hunting will shoot it because of the hunting dogs.

 

[sunnybob]

Vince, apart from the plant in the lower right hand corner, they are all fake, even the bush. My wife has finally admitted that gardening in this country is too much like hard work. The area with the black decking used to be a flower bed with a 16 foot tall yucca tree in it.

The pergola is mounted onto very sturdy iron brackets, bolted down to the ground. This is a very common method here, it stops ants and other burrowing insects from nesting between wood and ground. And also stops the posts soaking up rainwater. They are sold in every builders merchants and DIY shop.

I'll do some surfing and see if i can find more details (I dont even know what they are called, I just pick them and pay for them.)

 

[sunnybob]

cant find anything like it on google images, I'll take a couple close ups tomorrow.

 

[sunnybob]

I had to keep the pergola simple. Due to complicated zoning laws here, its regarded as an illegal structure as its within 3 metres of the government boundary wall of the estate.
So there is a small possibility that a jobs worth could come along and make me take it down, even though there are fields on 3 sides of me and no foot traffic. So everything is screwed and bolted, no glue or complicated joints.

 

[sunnybob]

Thats a 4" (10cm) square post. held about 3" (75mm) above the floor
Dont worry about the floor, you can see now its stamped concrete.
We do get very strong regular gales here known as "coptic winds", so the pergola is bolted to the back wall on two posts as well as the concrete on the other three.

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