Technicals

Now the fun part for all you technically adept buyers…

One of our biggest points of pride is that when engineers come to see our product, they buy our product. We ask our clients to pay us a visit (or ask for a site visit), then go and compare the sheer quality difference between a Mr.Pergola system compared to, literally, any other pergola on the market, Bar None! Mr.Pergola comes on top.

We studied our competitors, even went as far as buying competing products to see what works and doesn’t for the North American market. We came up with our own solution…. 2 different systems for 2 different use cases. 3 Season and 4 Season….

Well over a thousand hours of engineering went into our design and development, add another small fortune for testing and validation by 2 engineers who signed off on the design.

3-Season Permanent Pergola

First, the most solid permanent 3-Season Pergola. Where you can support some snow (3-4inches), but is built to be left open in winter. As the pics below show, we use high grade steel and aluminum. One way to see the strength of any pergola is by looking at the corner brackets… since corners give strength. Our competitors use flimsy bent sheet metal with #12 screws to make a corner (pic below)… we use 10g steel and 6 Grade-8, half-inch bolts, (yes half inch) for each corner. See pics below. Our unique corner bracket also has a 4”x 4” HSS underneath going down 12” to help against the wind. The electroplated black zinc bolts of the posts (3/8” x 5”) keep the entire frame in place. We’ve installed our pergolas by the Saint Laurence River, Oka Lake, plenty rooftop patios, by highways and never, ever, have we had any problems. In the rare cases where need be, we created an additional bracketing system to shore it up further, where we can stand up to constant Cat3 Hurricane winds (125mph-208km/hr). There is simply no other pergola that can stand up to Mother Nature like Mr.Pergola can. Period.

4-Season Permanent Pergola

Now for the 4-Season Pergola… It’s nothing short of a Beast! The only pergola in the world that can handle 3 feet of wet snow, which means you can use it carefree all winter long. We see other companies talking about Snow Load in weight (ex: 6000lbs-11000lbs), but this is misleading. SNOW IS HEAVY! A few thousand pounds amounts to a few inches of snow…none come close to 3 feet (22,000lbs on a 16×16)! … for the record, our snow load capacity is 88 pounds per square foot. That’s double anyone else’s claims. The difference between our claims and our competitors is that we have our pergolas tested by specialized engineering firms and two engineers signed off on it. We don’t simply put some weight on the pergola and make a claim, we invested, heavily, so that we can guarantee our claims!

This pergola is of course more expensive given the quantity of materials we use. The corner brackets are quarter inch (1/4”) thick steel, properly covered to last, frankly, as long as you want it. There are almost no points of failure. We studied what others have done, found the weak points and solidified our system, essentially learning from their mistakes and weaknesses. There is a reason we can go up to 20ft wide and 20ft deep with only 4 posts…and why our louvres (blades) can surpass the frame by 4ft, without dropping/bending.

The 4-Season pergola option is perfect for those who want to use their patio in winter because they have an outdoor kitchen, love to BBQ, want to store their furniture without having to cover it or simply enjoy taking a break outside in winter with a firepit and either a hot chocolate or a cigar…