Melbourne pergola builders you can rely on.

A pergola bolted to your house is structural work, so the person building it should be a registered building practitioner — not a landscaper or a handyman with a ute. Before you sign anything, ask for four things: the builder's registration number, a current certificate of currency for public liability, evidence of domestic building insurance where the contract value requires it, and the name of the engineer certifying the footings and beams. Any legitimate builder will hand these over without hesitation.

Two more questions separate builders quickly. First: who physically does the work? If the answer is a rotating cast of subbies, nobody owns the detail where the pergola flashes back into your existing roof — which is exactly where the water problems start. Second: what's actually in the price? A quote that omits engineering, the permit, and footing depth is not a cheaper pergola, it's an incomplete one.

RenoWorx is a registered, insured Melbourne builder with more than thirty years in structural carpentry. Our own carpenters build every job, our engineer certifies every footing and span, we lodge the permits ourselves, and the quote is fixed and itemised so you can see the engineering, permit and construction costs separately. You deal with the same person from the site visit to handover.