Patio Covers, Pergolas and Cedar Pavilions in DFW

From the walk and a design. The written price breaks into the four phases: the engineered plan set and permit, any new concrete under it, the cedar structure itself (post-and-beam frame on engineered piers, roof, exposed rafters, corbels, full stain), and power. Size, roof type, whether it ties into the house roof, and how far power has to run move it most. We do not publish prices for custom covers; yours gets one number in writing.

The roof. A pergola is open slats, so it breaks up sunlight and keeps rain off nothing. A patio cover carries a solid roof over the full footprint, standing seam metal or shingles matched to the house, sloped for drainage, so the space underneath is usable in weather. We build both and they are priced separately above, because they are not the same product and quoting one at the other's price is how people end up disappointed in something that was built correctly.

A recent one in Rowlett was a freestanding two-layer open-top structure in Western Red Cedar, on nine 6x6 posts set on decorative steel bases. It used 2x10 beams with profiled end cuts, a rafter layer and 2x2 top purlins, and knee braces at every post-to-header connection, and it replaced an old pergola we tore out. Post count, beam size, the number of layers and stain are what set the price, and we put it in writing after the walk.

For a roofed structure, almost always. A roof is a load path and a reviewer wants to see where it goes, which means a stamped plan set showing post anchorage and roof framing. That is why design and engineering is its own phase here rather than buried somewhere, and it includes the permit application and the city fees.

If the concrete is sound, level, and thick enough to take a pier, yes, and it takes the flatwork phase out of the project entirely. We core or excavate to check rather than guess, because a post anchored to a thin slab is the failure that shows up in the first real wind.

Engineering and permit review is usually three to five weeks and runs before anything happens on site. Concrete is a day to pour and a week to cure enough to build on. The structure itself is one to two weeks depending on size and roof complexity. Plan on six to ten weeks from signature, most of it waiting on review rather than waiting on us.

Standing seam metal or architectural shingles, sloped for drainage across the full footprint. Metal is what we build most: it is the panel that lasts longest on a structure this exposed, and it does not shed granules onto the furniture underneath. Shingles matched to the house roof tie the cover into the house, and that is often the right call on a cover attached to it; we scope either one from the walk. We roof the covers we build. We are not a roofing company, and we do not replace house roofs.

Yes, and it is easiest while the cover is being built, before the ceiling closes. The base electrical scope is a dedicated GFCI circuit trenched from the panel to two weather-rated outlets. Recessed lights and a ceiling fan wired into the cover, and low-voltage landscape or path lighting around the patio, are added to that circuit and priced in the same written scope.

A carport attached to the house is the same cedar post-and-beam structure as a patio cover, set over the drive instead of the patio, and we build those. It is scoped on its own, because the clearance a vehicle needs and the slab under it change the job. A freestanding metal carport kit is a different product, and not one we sell or install.

Yes, in the form most people mean. A freestanding cedar pavilion with a solid roof is what most people picture when they say gazebo, and it is the structure this page is about: a cedar post-and-beam frame on engineered piers with a standing seam roof, designed, engineered and permitted for your yard. An octagonal kit gazebo from a big-box store is a different product. It is sized from a catalog rather than engineered for your site, and it usually anchors to the slab surface rather than to a pier. Some of those are fine for what they are. They are not what we build.