A pergola or patio cover for your Los Angeles backyard
A pergola puts shade over the spot in your Los Angeles backyard where the sun drives you indoors, and a patio cover does the same and keeps you dry in the rain. Call (310) 857-2520 and we will walk the yard with you.
Book online and we'll call you back the same business day.
Look at where your patio chairs are at four in the afternoon. If they have been pulled up against the house wall, or carried under the one tree, you already know where your yard is short of shade.
We build pergolas and patio covers as one part of the yard. Yours gets its own price on the same quote as anything else you want done, from the curb to the back fence.
What time of day would you be out there?
- At lunch, with the sun overhead. An open pergola handles this well. The beams across the top break up the light, and you still get the sky and the breeze.
- Late in the afternoon. If your patio faces the low sun, it comes in from the side and under the top. Tell us, because that changes where we would stand the pergola and how far out it reaches.
- On a wet day in winter. An open pergola does nothing for rain. A patio cover, with its solid top, is the one to ask for when it is the rain you want to keep off.
If you can't decide between the two, tell us the hour you sit outside most. We will tell you which one we would put there.
What would you do under it?
- Eat dinner. Then it belongs by the back door, sized for your table with the chairs pulled out.
- Get away from the house for an hour. A garden pergola near the back fence is somewhere to sit that is not the patio, and one of our paver walkways can take you out to it.
- Watch the kids. If they play on a patch of grass or artificial turf, a backyard pergola beside it lets you sit in the shade and still see them.
- Cook. If an outdoor kitchen is on your list as well, say so, because a grill and a cover have to be placed with each other in mind.
One crew lead runs your whole job.
Whoever walks the lot with you at the free visit runs the build and the final walkthrough, and you get their direct number that day. A question about the slope or the side gate goes to the person who measured it.
Book online and we'll call you back the same business day.
- Free yard visit, booked within 3 business daysPaver and turf samples come with us.
- One quote with a price for each part of the yard
- Turf and planting priced side by side
- One crew lead, with a direct number
If there is no patio there yet
If the ground where you want the pergola is still lawn or an old cracked slab, tell us at the visit. A patio with a pergola over it is two parts of the yard, the paving and the cover, and each one has its own price.
We place the posts with the paving in mind, so a post does not end up where a chair needs to go. The stone and paver choices are the ones we use for our flagstone and paver patios.
If you already have a patio you like, we look at it and measure it, and the pergola is priced by itself.
Lights under it, and how it should look
If you want to sit out after dark, ask about lights at the same visit. We wire the lights, so you do not have to find anyone else for that.
If you have a look in mind, whether that is a modern pergola with plain lines or one that suits an older house, show us a photo. We talk through what it would be made of with you at the visit.
What the price of your pergola depends on
- How much ground it covers. We measure the spot when we come.
- Whether it joins the house. One that meets the back wall and one that stands by itself in the yard are priced differently.
- What is on the ground now. Lawn, an old slab or a good patio each mean a different amount of work.
- Lights. They get their own price on the same quote.
- The way in. We look at how the materials get from the street to your backyard.
From your call to a start date
- You book. Book online and we'll call you back the same business day.
- We walk the yard with you. Your free yard visit is booked within 3 business days. If you can, pick the hour when the sun bothers you most.
- You get the price. It comes by email within 1 business day of the visit.
- You get a date. We confirm the start date in writing.
Call (310) 857-2520, and have in mind the hour of the day you would most like to be sitting outside.
We put up pergolas and patio covers in the San Fernando Valley, Altadena, Glendale and Long Beach.
The jobs we design and build.
Book one visit for the whole yard.
It's free, and you'll hear what we'd do in every part of it.
Book online and we'll call you back the same business day.