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Patio Covers and Porches in Weslaco, TX

Your sixties or seventies back slab is likely smaller than the cover you want. Near worked fields, a tighter screen mesh keeps the dust out of your house.

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Weslaco is 72 minutes from Rio Grande City, so we build patio covers, screened porches, pergolas and carports there in continuous days rather than return trips. Figure three to five working days once the footings have cured. Walls here are brick veneer, so the ledger has to reach the framing behind it.

Local conditions02

What houses in Weslaco actually deal with

Weslaco is zone 3, so a travel line sits on the estimate from the first draft. Two things particular to these houses move the number after that. Reaching framing behind brick veneer is slower work than bolting to a stucco wall, and the back slabs poured in this era are usually smaller than the cover you want, so the concrete gets priced as its own stage.

Most Weslaco homes are brick from the sixties and seventies, and brick veneer carries no structural load.
A ledger has to reach the framing behind that veneer, which changes how the tie-in gets drilled and flashed.
Eaves on those houses sit low, so an attached cover loses slope unless the tie-in goes higher.
Back slabs from that era are small, and most covers end up wider than the concrete already there.
Many owners here leave in April and come back in November, so the build happens with the house empty.
Weslaco sits among worked fields, so dust settles on a screen faster than salt ever would on the coast.

Permits and requirements

The permit gets pulled before the footings go in, and what Weslaco asks for is confirmed at your address rather than assumed from the last job. On these brick houses we put the ledger detail on the drawing itself, showing where it reaches framing, so the tie-in is settled on paper and not in the yard.
Setbacks decide how far the posts can sit from the rear line, and that caps the cover before we draw anything. On these lots the slab already poured is usually smaller than the setback allows, so the limit you hit first is the concrete, not the property line.
A park model or manufactured home does not follow the same rules as a slab house. We confirm which set covers yours before we quote.

County: Hidalgo County
Drive time from Rio Grande City: 72 minutes
Zone: 3 · Mid Valley
Languages: English and Spanish

From the build site03

Which homes has David Aceves helped build?

Homes built by Cuates Construction, with David Aceves on the build. Look at the covered patios, the posts and beams and the concrete underfoot: David plans a porches and patio covers job with that same eye.

Rear courtyard with French doors, an iron balcony and a covered patio

Two-story rear elevation with a covered back porch and a covered balcony above it

Covered patio with a stone outdoor kitchen next to the breezeway between house and garage

The four homes, room by room

Questions we get04

What people in Weslaco ask us

Our Weslaco house is brick veneer. What does the cover actually bolt to?

The framing behind the brick, never the brick face. Veneer is a skin, so a bolt set only in it will pull loose in a straight line wind. We locate the framing, set the ledger into it and flash the top edge under the existing roof. Loose or spalling brick gets repaired first.

The eave on our brick house is low. Does that limit how tall the cover can be?

It does, and it is the first thing we measure. A cover tied under a low eave loses slope, and a flat run holds water at the wall. When the height does not work, we tie in above the eave or set the structure free standing. You see both options staked before you decide.

Does a screened porch make sense next to the fields, or will it just fill with dust?

Dust comes either way, and the screen is what keeps it out of the house. Around Weslaco we use a tighter mesh and build the panels in separate frames. A torn panel then gets swapped on its own. Plan on hosing the screen down twice a season, once after spring plowing.

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