Metal brackets for Pergola posts

maryroberts

We are building a new pergola in our back garden - trying to find some metal brackets to bolt the posts to the ground, the same or similar to the one shown in the photo below.

The photo was taken in Greece, where we lived for several years - these types of bracket are standard over there, they are great because the post is not in direct contact with the ground therefore doesn't get damaged by the weather etc.

Please let me know if you have seen these for sale anywhere online or in any shop. I have been searching but can't find them, and going back to Greece is not an option!!!

SailorSam

It's not exactly the same but could you use something like this .....
http://www.sabrefix.co.uk/products_fencefix_view.php?id=75

keystone

Take the picture to a blackie and get him to make you some.

Cheers

maryroberts

Thanks SailorSam, I saw something similar in Screwfix I think but my partner's not keen on this type or Metpost type, he's after the Greek type! Even if we had to order them from abroad but it's finding them that's the problem! Wish we'd brought a load back from Greece with us, they were only a couple of Euros each, in hardware shops.

rxbren

depends on the size of the pergola and the post sizes
that pics looks more like a bit of 5x2 and by how the bracket looks im guessing that what ever it was holding up was fixed to a building along at least one size or that was a post in the middle of what was being held up.
the biggest problem if your going to use something like that bracket is if it is a free standing pergola there will not be much lateral support and a possiblilty of being able to be pushed over
your best option is to set the posts in concrete most post will come with 10yr guarantees or get the pergola in aluminium

maryroberts

Thanks. My partner is a joiner & has built lots of pergolas here and in Greece where we lived. Over there they use these types of bracket all the time for all widths of post & types of pergola. Yes the one in the photo is a huge pergola attached to a building. The one we're building is quite narrow and will be attached to the back of our house. We don't want to set the posts in concrete, we'd prefer them to be off the ground so that the bottom doesn't get weather damaged. Plus the fact that it will look much nicer :-)

Jonesya

Only fits 100mm x 100mm posts but this might do the job:
http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Landscaping/Decking+Fencing+Metalwork/Post+Base+Bolt+Down/d130/sd3224/p29420

Of if concreting the fixings into position:
http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Landscaping/Decking+Fencing+Metalwork/Post+Base+Concrete+In/d130/sd3224/p82691

rxbren

personally it looks better if the post disappears into the ground always looks like a cheap option when using metposts or similar fittings

keystone

maryroberts wrote: »

We don't want to set the posts in concrete, we'd prefer them to be off the ground so that the bottom doesn't get weather damaged. Plus the fact that it will look much nicer :-)

Hi ye down to the forge then.

Cheers