The posts, rails and rafters are cut from thicker sections than the standard garden pergola uses. In practice you get a structure with more visual mass — posts and rafters that look substantial from ten metres and read as part of the garden rather than as furniture in it. The structural benefit is a heavier frame that moves less under wind loading and feels more settled once it is in.

Timber panels fitted around the base of each corner post in the same pressure-treated redwood and finish as the rest of the structure. They wrap the foot of each post and give it a wider, more finished appearance at ground level. A bare post standing on bolt-down feet looks like a post. A post with a pedestal panel looks like it belongs.

Fifty-one sizes, from 1.8m wide by 1.8m long up to 4.8m wide by 7.8m long. Bespoke footprints are available for dimensions between or beyond the listed range.

Yes, both are options chosen at the point of order. Polycarbonate roof kits in clear, opal or bronze with white or brown glazing bars. Privacy screening in heavy-duty rebated redwood as one side panel, two side panels, one back panel or combinations. When a roof is selected, a five degree pitch is built into the frame.

The premium model uses single rails at each corner with curved corner braces. The double premium adds a doubled corner configuration and post section braces on top of that. For most garden applications the premium model is the right choice. Choose the double premium when the pergola is going to carry a polycarbonate roof in a particularly exposed garden, or when the footprint is at the larger end of the range.