ChrisBailey
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Hi,
My partner purchased an aluminium pergola for the garden, 4m x 3m and about 2.4m high.
It has a sliding shade in the roof section.
Instructions say it needs bolting down to the ground so it doesnt go walkies in the wind.
The floor it will be standing on is just a block patio. The blocks are standard 200x100mm pavers, they can be lifted out quite easily.
My idea on mounting this thing is to weld or bolt some round bar perpendicular to a mount plate.
Id drill a hole similar size to the round bar in a block, then push the round bar through the hole into the ground about 1 foot until the mount plate sits in the pavers.
Then use nutserts, the bolt kind to mountbup to the pergola.
Anybody see any issue with this?
I think this would stop the pergola sliding around but it could still be twisted or pulled up. I dont think this is an issue as the pergola is a square frame.
Anybody any better ideas?
I don't want to put concrete into the ground as first it's more difficult and second it cant be easily moved later (if that's ever wanted).
Thoughts much appriciated.
My partner purchased an aluminium pergola for the garden, 4m x 3m and about 2.4m high.
It has a sliding shade in the roof section.
Instructions say it needs bolting down to the ground so it doesnt go walkies in the wind.
The floor it will be standing on is just a block patio. The blocks are standard 200x100mm pavers, they can be lifted out quite easily.
My idea on mounting this thing is to weld or bolt some round bar perpendicular to a mount plate.
Id drill a hole similar size to the round bar in a block, then push the round bar through the hole into the ground about 1 foot until the mount plate sits in the pavers.
Then use nutserts, the bolt kind to mountbup to the pergola.
Anybody see any issue with this?
I think this would stop the pergola sliding around but it could still be twisted or pulled up. I dont think this is an issue as the pergola is a square frame.
Anybody any better ideas?
I don't want to put concrete into the ground as first it's more difficult and second it cant be easily moved later (if that's ever wanted).
Thoughts much appriciated.