Erinnyees 10'×12' Outdoor Hardtop Gazebo Pergola with Adjustable Aluminum Rainproof Roof, White

I looked at several different brands for a pergola and finally decided on this one. It turned out to be a great decision.

Reviews of one of the other brands had several comments about the pergola arriving on one 800 pound pallet and how hard it was to get it off the truck and moved to reasonable spot. The product came via Fedex in eight separate boxes all weighing under 100 pounds. The Fedex driver easily put each box in back of my house out of sight. Having different boxes each with its own shipping number means they may arrive on different days, but the company had sent me a message to expect that so it was no problem. The product is well packaged and arrived without any damage even though the boxes had obviously been banged around a bit. Inside the boxes, each part is individually wrapped in protective packaging and color coded with tape to indicate which parts go together. As you unpack the boxes, just stack tape colors together and you will have the parts needed for a page in the assemble instructions. When you unwrap the parts each one has a sticker with a letter on it to match the instruction manual directions. The instruction manual is all pictures, but it is pretty easy to follow and most of the parts are engineered to only go together one way so it is really hard to assemble it incorrectly. The only thing that was confusing was the way the curtains and screens go on. There are six separate panels for each one and a single panel installs on both sides of a post with straps in the middle of the panel to attach to the post. The middle panels are easy, they have five eyelets on each side, but the four corner panels have five eyelets on one side and six on the other. Contrary to what would seem logical, the six eyelets go on the short side of the pergola and the five eyelets go on the long side of the pergola. Be sure you put all of the hooks for the curtains in the frame of the pergola during assembly - you will have a couple of extra but that is good in case you ever break one.

Reviews on one of the other brands I looked at had comments about how long it took to assemble the louvers. On this model, the louvers are completely assembled and snap into place. It took less than 30 minutes to put all the louvers on the frame. Total assemble time was about six to seven hours, but I did it all by myself over the course of three days. It was July and pretty hot and I wasn't in any hurry. If you had two people working on it you could probably do it in four hours. The company sent me an email right after I ordered the product with a customer service contact if I had any questions, but I never had to use it. Like I said, the only thing that I had a problem with was hanging the curtains.

Overall quality for the product is excellent. The materials used are strong, it doesn't seem cheap at all, and the engineering was great. Everything fits together well. I would say it is 95% waterproof. I get some rain splash along the center beam, but the area under the louvers stays completely dry.

I sit here now enjoying my morning cup of coffee, shaded, bug free, under the pergola. We can actually enjoy a bug free outdoors with the screens closed. The reason we chose this one was not only for the price but the drainage system and the option to open/close the roof. The drainage system works really well as long as it can keep up with the rainfall. When we get really dumped on good it does overflow a tad but I’m talking tropical storm volume.

Helene was nothing but a test run for us and our 12 X 20 louvered roof pergola. The wind rating on this pergola was also a major factor in our purchase. Helene turned out to be our first test with the pergola. I only had the provided velcro straps on the curtains and we ended up getting the dirty edge of storm. We had absolutely no rattling or shaking. Everything held up well, the bottom half of the curtains were whipping around but that’s is to be expected. Next up, Milton. The 102mph winds we saw in the eye wall of Milton were no still match for this pergola. We kept the roof closed and wrapped all of the curtains from top to bottom with rope so they wouldn’t blow around. We did have some rattling this time but the structure remained in tact.

I do highly recommend this pergola.

Our pergolas look great and have made our poolside a lot more useable! Quality & affordable.

After months of reviewing pergolas, I decided to specifically buy this one because it was listed as “Black”. I have a black fence and wanted it to match. This 10 box monster gets offloaded onto your driveway buy the UPS man that now hates you, because 2 boxes weigh 100 lbs each. After opening the boxes and starting to organize the parts, I finally noticed that it’s NOT black. It’s not even close to Black…it’s charcoal a mix of brown and grey.

That being said it took 7 hours to put this thing up. All parts were there, instructions were easy, I only had one part that was bent from shipping.

Very nice!!