We've been talking about adding a patio cover almost since we bought the house 22 years ago.
Could never decide on how to build it.
Finally had a revelation to simply extend the existing roofing (back half of the garage on the left, along with a simple relatively useless stub of a roof way up over the patio door).
So, I took a couple days off and we proceeded to remove fascia boards and fake support boards.
The patio has a slope, so we had to determine the difference in drop from one outside corner to the next (laser levels are wonderful), in order to to figure out how high to make each of the posts, such that the header and the rafters end up in the right place relative to the current roofing.
I think we got most of the math worked out, and we have the posts built (2x4s glued and screwed together). Those will get primed this week, then next week we hope to get the header built and installed and the house-side ledger board and the rafters up. Maybe even the sheathing done.
We'll see. We're not fast, but we do pretty good work.
My wife's calling it her Mother's Day project. Yeah, I can live with that.
