There's no single number that answers this honestly, because a Schildr pergola is custom-built to your dimensions and options — but the price drivers are consistent across every project, and understanding them will make any quote you receive easier to evaluate.
Structure type. A fixed louvered roof like Cabbana costs less than a retractable louvered roof, which costs less than a fully enclosed glass sunroom like Grande. A carport-style structure such as Lenore Carport is priced on its own scale, since it's sized for vehicle coverage.
Foundation and mounting. Free-standing posts are generally secured to an existing concrete slab with heavy-duty structural construction adhesive rather than set into individually poured footings, and where there's no suitable slab, a raised deck platform built with decking boards can serve as the base instead. A wall-attached (ledger-mounted) structure uses the house as one load-bearing edge and needs fewer posts altogether, which generally reduces both material and labor cost. Which approach fits depends on your existing slab or patio surface, soil and drainage, and whether you'd like a podium-style platform under the structure — and this is also usually what determines what your permit application needs to show.
Size. Price scales roughly with square footage, but not perfectly linearly — larger structures carry proportionally more structural aluminum per panel, and very large spans may require additional support posts.
Motorization and controls. Manual hand-crank systems are the least expensive. Motorized systems with remote or app control, plus add-ons like integrated lighting, rain sensors, and wind sensors, add cost incrementally.
Enclosure subsystems. Adding glazing or screens — sliding doors, folding glass walls, or retractable screens — to close in an open structure is priced as an add-on to the base structure. See the Window & Door and Sunshade options in the full pergola catalog.
Finish. Standard powder-coat RAL colors are included; custom RAL colors and wood-look finishes may carry a small premium.
A manual, unenclosed louvered roof and a motorized, fully-glazed sunroom are different products wearing the same general "pergola" name, which is exactly why cost estimates for this category vary so widely depending on the source. Two patios of the same size can land at very different numbers once motorization, enclosure, and finish are factored in — which is why we don't publish a flat range ourselves, and why the factors above matter more than any single number would.
Core Envelope is an authorized Schildr dealer, which means you're quoted at dealer pricing rather than paying a general contractor's markup on top of a sub-contracted supplier relationship. We measure your site at no cost, design the system to spec, and provide a detailed written quote before anything is ordered — then connect you with a licensed local installer for the physical build.
Yes — we measure your property and talk through options at no cost and no obligation before any quote is issued.
We provide the engineered system and connect you with a trusted licensed local installer; installation itself is contracted separately with that installer, which keeps pricing transparent at each stage.
Financing availability depends on the installer and lender you work with; ask during your site visit and we can point you toward options other clients have used.
Because every system is custom-sized and optioned, a flat price list would be misleading — a published "starting at" number rarely reflects what a specific patio actually needs.
