[quote=desmond][quote=meadandale][quote=svelte]
Maybe I’ll bbq tonight…you all are wetting my appetite…[/quote]

Ugh…4 weeks into my 3 week backyard demo and remodel and still not done.[/quote]

Mead, great looking patio. Make sure you use large lumber on the patio cover so it does not warp or the paint does not peel every year. Also, why did they put a support pole so close to the back door?[/quote]

They are using 4×4 posts and 4×8 cross beams. The beams from the house to the edge of the patio will be 2×8.

They had to put posts on the house side because there is no way they could attach a 2×8 brace to my facia. With the drip shield on the facia, they’d only be able to get 3-4 inches of board up there with quite a bit hanging down. Removing the facia wasn’t an option since it’s on 1″ so we still wouldn’t have been able to get a 2″ board in there.

Trust me, I didn’t want posts on the house side but we went back and forth on this and he didn’t think they could find a way to do it. Since I”m already about 30% over budget I didn’t want to explore options that would require even more damage to the house and need for more stucco repair and repainting. We finally found a post placement that kept the posts from sitting right in front of my windows. The post just outside the door should be ok. You’ll step right past it.

Everything has been about compromise on this project. You should see all the crap we found buried in my backyard that we didn’t know was there…

By the way, the patio cover is going to be stained redwood and there is going to be a cedar shed on the side of the yard stained to match.