Without fail, when the weather turns warmer, homeowners use their backyards as entertaining spaces. You want your backyard to be warm, inviting and feel like an extension of your home. A modern louvered pergola is a great option to enhance your backyard and create a beautiful and unique outdoor living space.
Heartland Pergolas is one company that produces high-quality vinyl louvered pergola kits that make eye-catching backyard spaces.
A louvered pergola is a newer style of pergola roofing that provides more effective shade from the sun by using angled, diagonal roof slats. The amount of shade can vary depending on what the homeowner wants or needs for their backyard. Heartland Pergola’s louvered purlin systems allow for 50%, 75% or 90% shade cover, significantly more than traditional systems that only offer 20% to 30% shade coverage.
As a result, with traditional pergolas, homeowners have to buy extra parts or invest in canopies for added sun protection, raising the entire cost more than necessary.
Aside from the additional shade provided by louvered purlins, there are some other great benefits to this attractive pergola design.
All Heartland Pergolas products feature a rustproof, highly durable aluminum frame core inside the vinyl sleeves. This core runs throughout the entirety of the pergola, including the posts, beams and rafters.
The added support means that a Heartland Pergola is resistant to rotting, sagging, warping, cracking or burning, unlike wood pergolas or wood pergola inserts. Having an aluminum core also means these pergolas can withstand strong winds, harsh weather and fire better than other types of pergolas.
Heartland Pergolas kits come neatly packed and are DIY-friendly, meaning you can put your new pergola together over a weekend. You can also easily customize your kit, so you get the exact look you want. There’s even an entire YouTube videos series mimicking the written installation guide you’ll receive with your pergola order.
Since the vinyl sleeves are hollow, it’s easy to make cuts and adjustments to allow for additions like outdoor ceiling fans, speakers and other accessories you may want.
While you may want a beautiful outdoor entertaining space, you don’t want to do a lot of required maintenance. Heartland Pergola products use a premium extruded vinyl, which is resistant to fading, chalking or weather damage. This means that the vinyl requires minimal care — just soap and water — compared to a wood pergola.
Heartland Pergolas are also versatile in style. They can be designed to have a more traditional look, or you can choose a more modern pergola design, like the examples below, for something unique and different.
Traditionally, pergolas don’t have walls, but there is no rule saying you can’t add one to your design. You can create a simple, white square pergola that has a back slatted wall. This can help create a more defined space and even provide a small amount of privacy or added sun protection, depending on the wall’s direction.
Your pergola doesn’t have to be directly against your house, either. Another unique design idea is to put your pergola away from your home as a freestanding structure. For an added wow factor, this modern louvered pergola can be built directly on top of a deck to have a shady area.
No matter what, a pergola acts as an extension of your home. You can take this notion more literally by attaching it directly to your home’s exterior. Instead of having four posts holding it up, the pergola will be supported structurally by your home.
If your area is larger than 16 feet, you’ll need to add some more posts to effectively cover the entire living space. Some customers build their modern pergolas between 30 and 60 feet long by adding posts in the middle.
As mentioned before, your pergola doesn’t have to be attached to your home in any manner. In fact, it doesn’t even have to be close to your home at all. If you have a large party, consider putting your pergola further away on top of a paved surface. It allows you to create a living space that feels a bit removed and private from the rest of the property.
Pergolas are a fantastic way to create more living space using your backyard. The better option is to have a louvered pergola, which provides significantly more shade. Heartland Pergola provides high-quality, durable, vinyl pergolas with a heavy-duty aluminum core.
Our pergolas are built to last and can be completed as a DIY project, meaning you won’t have to worry about the schedules of a construction team and COVID-19 dangers. Best of all, a Heartland Pergola is easy to maintain and will bring you years of enjoyment.
Contact Heartland Pergolas today for more information on your brand new pergola.
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The dimensions of a Heartland Pergola refer to the width and depth of the pergola's roof. The pergola roof will include the beams and rafters, and on a traditional style pergola, will extend past the posts of your pergola.
For an example, a 14' x 14' pergola means that the overhead roof dimensions are 14' x 14'.
To figure out post spacing you will want to look at the specific CAD drawing for the pergola size you are looking for. Noting that a typical traditional style pergola will be built with the posts inset one foot from the end of your beams. Modern pergolas will NOT have an overhang.
Tip while planning - if your patio space is 14' x 14', most homeowners will opt to go a size larger on a Traditional Style Pergola so that the overhang of the pergola roof extends past the edge of your patio, rather than stopping even with it. A 14' x 14' patio would benefit from installing a 16' x 16' pergola (or greater) for optimum sun coverage.
We have the best of both worlds!
Aluminum base structure for extreme durability and strength paired with a vinyl exterior that makes your pergola maintenance super easy!
Many vinyl pergolas on the market are going to have no reinforcement or internal reinforcement by wood. Over time, that wood will rot, warp and sag. The aluminum inserts of Heartland Pergolas ensure that is never an issue for your pergola. It's a solid structure, easy to maintain and will last you for decades! We are so confidant in that fact that we offer a Lifetime Warranty.
You can purchase any of our pergola kits or eyebrow pergolas online through our website or order by calling in (563-345-6745) and talking to our sales team. If you are ordering a pergola with customizations outside of our pergola design tool, custom sizes or configurations, you will want to purchase by speaking with our team over the phone/email.
Upon ordering, either via our website or through our sales staff you will receive a docusign document emailed to you detailing all your options and pergola specs to sign off on before we send your pergola to fabrication.
Due to the custom nature of our product, we cannot accept returns. All pergola kits are made to order specifically for your space and requirements. We recommend you work directly with our team to discuss all potential site, climate, and installation requirements before you make your purchase to ensure that you get exactly the materials that you need.
We want you to be happy with your purchase, if there is a problem just reach out and we will work with you to make it right.
It doesn’t happen often but if you do find something missing or damaged, we will replace it immediately.
For all orders in the continental US, shipping is already included!
If you live outside of the continental US and would like a quote on shipping, please contact Elizabeth for a shipping quote!
Each kit will come with the corresponding instruction manual for that pergola. It will list step-by-step how to install, what tools are needed and show diagrams for the installation. You will also get your related CAD drawing for your pergola as well.
You are welcome to download the digital version of our instruction manuals ahead of time if you want to take a look at the process first!
We also have installation videos available 24/7 playable from YouTube Play List. Our Video Installation series will break down each step into a short video so you can see exactly how each step is completed.
VINYL AND ALUMINUM STRUCTURES LIMITED WARRANTY
Subject to the conditions and limitations listed herein, Heartland Pergolas warrants its vinyl structures to be free from defective workmanship and materials and, when subject to normal and proper use, against surface peeling, rot, structural damage from termites, splitting, flaking, rusting, and blistering, abnormal weathering or abnormal discoloration.
We have many customers who go the DIY route to install their pergola! If you have some basic building experience and knowledge with some simple tools, you can build a pergola.
We provide you with written installation instructions, video tutorials online, and the best customer service you can get!
You can watch our videos ahead of time to see if you feel comfortable working with the tools and materials needed to build your pergola. Our Installation Videos are divided up into short step-by-step clips that are to the point and show you exactly how each part is completed.
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