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Final Touches and Reveal

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I Built A Luxury Pergola That's Actually Useful

What happens here

The final step involves securing the installed decorative rafters by driving screws through the top into the supporting structure. Additionally, small brackets are installed on the underside of the main beams to provide extra support and complete the finished look. With the pergola structure complete, lights are strung underneath the rafters to provide ambient lighting for the outdoor space. The finished pergola provides a stylish and functional cover for the outdoor grill area, offering shade and an inviting atmosphere.

Goal: Complete the pergola with final structural reinforcements and decorative elements.

Tools and materials

  • Impact Driver Ryobi ONE+ — Driving screws to secure rafters and brackets
  • Small Brackets Unspecified — Providing additional support for the rafters from underneath the main beams
  • String Lights Unspecified — Adding ambient lighting to the finished pergola
  • Structural Screws Unspecified — Securing the rafters to the main beams and additional brackets

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work. >> All right, I think we got them all cut here. I would love to have one more board, but it's not in the cards. Oh, by the way, we just hit a million subscribers by the way. Do you guys know that? We just hit a million subscribers and it's all thanks to you guys. Thank you so much for watching all of my videos. It's crazy to think about. We've been doing this for 9 years now and we just hit that milli and boy does that feel good. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Let's send this to the moon. 2 million subscribers, here we go. Let me know the crazy projects you want me to build and we'll make sure we'll build them on this channel. Now, if you have them, let's go throw these up. All right, I want to make sure they're spaced absolutely perfect. In fact, I'm going to have a a spacer piece that I'm going to make sure it's spaced out perfectly. So, the area is 134 and here's how you do it. You take the area that you're working with at the length and then all your pieces, figure out how thick everything is together. So, this is 15 and 1/2 in. So, 134 - 15 and 1/2 = 1 118 and 1/2. And then we're going to go divide that by let's say 11 pieces that I have. And that is 10? Do I have 11 pieces? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Nope, we got to divide that by 10. 118.5 / 10 = 11 and 7/8. 11 7/8 is our spacer piece. So, remember when I said that this is going to be a low maintenance pergola? It is. I'm keeping my word. Number one, when we filmed the beginning of the video, it was morning time. It was like 10:00 in the morning, and everything was was shaded. Well, right now, it is 3:20, and it's still shaded. Not to mention about half of this thing is underneath the soffit. So, any kind of maintenance that we'll have to do is like on this little section. So, so far, we're not lying. It's going to be a low maintenance one. It's the next morning. We got a little bit of rain, but nothing too crazy to cry home about. Now, with this pergola, everything's like phenomenal. I did quickly just move these brackets to the front as opposed to the sides. And really, for that reason is if I'm paying an arm and a leg for this hardware, I better see it. So, I put it up front, and I think it looks perfect. The more of that bracket combination of wood, the better. The next thing we're going to do is add one more layer to the top, but instead of going 2 by 8 2 by 8, we're going to go 2 by 8 2 by 8 2 by 4. You see what I did there? I don't know. Call me Pablo Picasso. Who knows? I'm just…

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