Natural Beauty, Shade, and Durability
Why A Pergola? Pergolas, along with your choice of hanging plants and vines, can be the perfect accent to your outdoor space, depending on what’s most important to you. You can place some patio furniture there where you can go out and enjoy your morning cup of coffee, or a relaxing drink in the evening. You can do the same thing in a pavilion or gazebo, so why a pergola?
- Natural Beauty – The #1 reason why people choose pergolas over gazebos or pavilions is the ability to hang plants and grow vines on their pergola. Also, people love the criss-cross look.
- Shade – Right from the start, and especially after your plants mature, pergolas provide beautiful natural shade to your garden area or patio.
- Portal – Pergolas serve as an ideal entry way from the back of your home to your backyard, or from one section of your property to the other.
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- next to outdoor fireplace barbecue
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- without blocking the view from the windows on the back of the home.
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- Even sitting in front of our shop with no decoration, this vinyl pergola is still beautiful.
Why Amish Designers Pergolas?
Wood Pergolas
If you don’t mind, or perhaps would prefer, knots and cracks in your wood pergola, and don’t mind of your pergola is shaky, then Amish Designers is not for you. Our wood pergolas are made from “clear” pressure treated lumber, are guaranteed to last a lifetime, and can be stained to the desired color. Read about the pressure treated lumber we use. Many people prefer wood over vinyl because of it’s natural appearance. Durability is the same as vinyl because of the wood we use. Depending on the weather in your area, wood pergolas will have to be refinished. If you choose not to finish your pergola to start with, it will last and will not rot, but will turn grey. This lumber will not start out green the way some other pressure treated lumber does.
Our wood pergolas are extraordinarily durable and well built. Inside of the 2-beam design most builders use, our beam goes all the way around the perimeter. Combined with 2 braces on each post, and you have a wood pergola that will hold up for many years without shaking and eventually falling down. Next is a row of 2″ x 8″ Pressure Treated top quality pine rafters that will never deteriorate in the weather. Much more durable than fir or cedar, our pine lumber is worthy of its own page.
Finally, there is another row of 2″ x 4″‘s notched on the top for beauty, shade and stability.
Vinyl Pergolas
More and more people are choosing vinyl because it’s low maintenance. It’s more expensive to buy, but never needs to be re-treated or painted so it’s less expensive in the long run. Our vinyl gazebos are extremely heavy duty and durable. The posts are made with 5” x 5” pressure treated wood covered with a vinyl sleeve. The 2” x 6” beams are also made with wood covered with vinyl. Give your prospective vinyl pergola the shake test. Think about your prospective pergola in a good stiff wind with your plants hanging from it.
Building Amish Pergolas
Pergolas do not travel assembled and must be ordered in kit form. You can assemble it yourself, have a contractor assemble it, or pay our Amish crews to bring it out and build it for you. Which option is best depends on how handy you are, who you know and where you’re located. The builders are located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, so if you live much more than 150 miles from there, it may not be cost effective to have us build it for you. We’d be happy to price out the build on-site option, so don’t hesitate to ask.
Amish Pergolas Pricing
We’d like to try to keep our pricing between us and our customers, and don’t send out pages with all our pricing. Our pergolas are more expensive than just about any competitor you’ll find on the internet, but we still sell a lot of them. We only have one level of quality. If you are close enough to make the trip to Quarryville, PA, and you can see up close how our pergolas are constructed, you’ll see why our pergolas are worth the price. It might not be for you – there are plenty of cheap pergolas out there.
Onsite construction is 30% plus mileage. It sometimes works out nearly as cost-effective as shipping, because we bring the kit on our own trailer and our mileage charges are so reasonable. We hope you have found the information on this page to be helpful and look forward to building your new pergola for you!
