When the girders are cantilevered beyond the posts or the rafters are cantilevered beyond the girders any overhang shorter than 12 inches looks truncated i went with 18 inch overhangs here.
Pergola roof overhang.
With the touch of a button louvers go from fully open to fully shut for the ultimate shade cover solution.
My pergola roof is about 7 wide.
Since my pergola doesn t have a slope i wanted to add something that would at least prevent the water from puddling in the middle of the roof.
This is shown and explained in step 2 and step 3.
And if you don t need the shade but still want to stay dry you can even install clear ones like i did over my outdoor bar.
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Each of our standard size pergola kits is designed with an overhang of the rafters and beams to the outside of the posts so that the roof structure is a bit larger than the area inside the posts.
Remember too that the pergola will look different from various vantage points.
The big kahuna the sombrero the fedora pergola kits and the brim pergola kits all have 6 posts.
So to raise the roof on one end would require a 10 1 2 drop.
You can put them down right over the top of your pergola like a roof.
Like the tin panels installing it on a bit of an angle will help the water run off.
These roofing panels are intended to be installed on a sloped roof rather than a flat one.