Covered Patios & Pergolas in St. Charles, Missouri

St. Charles homes and this kind of project

Our first visit for a covered patio or pergola in St. Charles is spent on sun direction at the hours you sit outside, the existing slab and the rear easement, which tells us how everything from 1800s brick to 1990s subdivisions were put together.

The housing stock here: nineteenth-century brick in the historic core, early twentieth-century bungalows and four-squares in midtown, postwar ranches, 1980s to 2000s subdivisions to the west and south, and New Town's neo-traditional homes.

A simple pergola or arbor is usually the sympathetic choice beside an old house.

Lots, exteriors and approvals in St. Charles

Historic district properties need approval for exterior changes, including windows, siding, porches and sometimes paint colors. Wood porch restoration is common. Elsewhere, decks, patio covers and siding replacement are the routine exterior jobs.

A front porch is part of the architecture of an older St. Charles house, and rebuilding one means matching column profiles, railing heights and beadboard ceilings, often under historic review. Rear decks and porches have more freedom, but we still design them to suit the house.

What is included

For St. Charles projects we provide design, engineering where needed, permits and HOA documents, footings, framing, roofing, electrical, gas rough-in, staining or painting and coordination of any new concrete or paver work.

We take on covered patio or pergola work across St. Charles, from the Highway 94 South corridor to Historic Main Street and Frenchtown.

What we watch for

Utility easements run along many rear lot lines in St. Charles. We check your plat so a freestanding pavilion is not built where a utility has the right to dig.

Working on tight historic blocks near the river and ordinary suburban lots farther west, as we do in St. Charles, we plan access for framers, a roofer and an electrician before the first delivery arrives.

Permits and approvals in St. Charles

For a covered patio or pergola at a St. Charles address, the paperwork goes to the City of St. Charles. Expect footing, framing and electrical inspections for roofed structures.

Since this work shows from outside, also plan on historic preservation review in the old districts. We prepare that submittal alongside the permit.

Schedule and getting to you

Plan on one to four weeks of site work for a covered patio or pergola in St. Charles, once permits and materials are in hand.

St. Charles is about half an hour east on I-70, or along Highway 370 to the north side from our Wentzville base. We plan crew days and deliveries around that drive so you get full working days on site.

What moves the price in St. Charles

We price covered patios & pergolas in St. Charles from a site visit, not a square-foot figure. These are the items that change the number.

• Timber species and size. Large cedar or fir timbers are a premium.
• Attached versus freestanding.

More detail

Our step-by-step method for this work, and the factors that move its price, are laid out on the main covered patios & pergolas page. More about the area is on our St. Charles page.