Every home and homeowner has their unique style. Whether you’re looking to install an attached patio cover or a free-standing structure, Alumawood patio covers have the design flexibility to bring your dream patio to life. Let’s go over your options for end styles and header beams.
What Types of End Styles Are There for Alumawood Patio Covers?
There are four end styles or, edge detailing, options to consider with an Alumawood patio cover. Beveled, Mitered, Corbel, or Scalloped. Your end styles can be chosen to match the overall aesthetic of your home so the addition is seamless.
Choosing Beveled, Mitered, or opting out of end styles entirely offers a contemporary, modern look to your patio cover.
Beveled End Styles
This beautiful Alumawood Newport Solid patio cover in the color Spanish Brown chose Beveled end styles to add a simple but eye-catching detail.
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Mitered Style Ends
Mitered endy styles offer a bit more personality to your patio cover, but are still simplistic.
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No End Styles
You can also choose to keep a very clean, modern look to your patio cover and have no end styles on your patio cover.
Adding Corbel or Scalloped end styles will offer your patio cover an ornate, elegant look.
Scalloped End Styles
Add a bit more elegance to your patio cover with these end styles.
Corbel End Styles
This choice of end styles gives an ornate, elegant look to your patio space.
Header Beams
Header beams on your patio cover are located at the end of its projection. With the option of choosing a single or double-header, the decision is based on your personal preference. Using double-header beams will give a more stout appearance.
However, patio covers with a much wider span than average, will require either a double-header or a steel c-beam inserted into a single header beam. Since that delves more into the engineering of these structures and highly depends on what you plan on doing with your specific patio cover, your contractor will go into detail about what is needed for your Alumawood patio cover.
Additionally, if you want to eliminate center posts, like in the diagram below, you will need to accommodate the weight with double-headers or a steel-inserted single-header beam. The patio cover below chose a steel c-beam to be inserted into the single header so they could remove the center post.
You Create Your Haven
We hope we’ve given you some insight into some of the customizable features offered on Alumawood patio covers. Choosing your end styles is your personal preference and can be chosen to match your aesthetic. Whether you enjoy the look of a single header beam or like the sturdy appearance double headers give to your patio cover, the choice is yours.
If you have any questions about patio covers and the processes involved in building one at your home, check out our other blog posts. We do our best to offer you the information you need so you can make your next step.
Until next time!
-LB Structural Inc