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This'll be a short'n'sweet thread, but might explain lack of progress elsewhere. With an addition to the fleet (no not the Scimitar pictured below, something non-retro), I want it under cover for the winter. Pictured here is the carport already in place when we moved here. I wanted a bigger carport. I was busy so made enquiries about a really tasty one. £5000 fitted. I'm not THAT busy.  The existing one was sound, but a little untidy. A clean-up and paint sorted that. It's 5.5m long, but I want a car and campervan under it, so I'm extending 4m forwards, 3.7m back. Using the same construction, I got timber and steel, and had an engineering firm cut some nice plates. Cut. Buzz. Drill. Screw. Voila.    £250 so far, with roof sheet panels still to buy and fit. |
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For roofing sheets try and get industrial fibreglass rather than DIY plastic. I did my carport with them and got from a commercial sheet supplier. Turns out builders have more than enough delivered for industrial units so there are people who specialist in buying the surplus. Mine worked out no dearer then DIY but strong enough to take heavy snow and strong winds. Neighbours carport have been recovered several times due to damage by wind. For facias I have industrial plastic coated galv steel trim folded into a "L" section as cheaper than UPVC.
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Thanks, Compo. Yeah, I'm avoiding cheap lightweight sheet. I went to a commercial roofing company today and got covered ally sheet, plus some clear sheet ('skylight' as they seem to call it in the trade, or was it just this odd little back-street operation?)
I just need to stick it up now.
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I always intend getting some industrial curtains, the type that are strips, for the ends of my carport to stop some of the wind blowing through in Winter yet being strips won't billow up like a tarp. They hook on a rail so can be removed and rolled up for storage in Spring.
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Like so?  Good if you want to protect from the elements, but do you have to un-hook 'em every time you want to move a vehicle in or out? |
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The curtains are "drive though" so no need to unhook them for access. You can get varying thickness of material that will withstand fork lifts, lorries etc constantly going thought them.
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Hi, I think they can obtained where you pull them back like...well curtains. You wouldn't want to keep driving through them with a car, it wouldn't do the bodywork any favours.
Colin
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I'm needing to do something similar but from scratch, what dimension are your steel uprights and how far apart would you space them?
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I'm a lover of KeeKlamps as they are so versatile (plus I have loads of them  ) If you use a 62-8 on top of a pole then that will allow you to attach timber 62-8 -  For the base you could simply concrete the pole into the ground of if you already have a solid base / want it to be "freestanding" then use a 60-8. 60-8 -  Obviously you can cut poles to length you want. I built my carport totally out of KeeKlamps and poles so it was basically a full cage. I then attached timber bearers for the roof using saddle clamps -  Paul H |
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Aug 16, 2015 17:41:12 GMT
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Job done.  13.2m long x 3.6m wide all for £600. Hi Omegod, the existing carport was built from 50mm steel box uprights, the base plates were 180mm square plates, top plates 180mm x 50mm. Timber 180mm x 35mm. 2.5m to 3m between uprights. I'd have put them closer together if starting from scratch, 'cos I usually over-engineer. However, the original carport had been up for about 16 years with 2 uprights 3.3m apart. |
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Aug 17, 2015 10:06:56 GMT
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I design this sort of thing every day - All looks good to me. If you do 'Seal' it both ends with the hanging strips, kust make sure you leave an air gap somewhere at each end to stop condensation etc. Good job fella!
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96 E320 W210 Wafter - on 18" split Mono's - Sold :-(
10 Kia Ceed Sportwagon - Our new daily
03 Import Forester STi - Sold
98 W140 CL500 AMG - Brutal weekend bruiser! Sold :-(
99 E240 S210 Barge - Now sold
02 Accord 2.0SE - wife's old daily - gone in PX
88 P100 2.9efi Custom - Sold
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Aug 17, 2015 11:41:19 GMT
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Good to get it officially signed-off, SmokeEm  I've a 6ft gate at the front, and a collapsing 6ft fence along the side. I'll probably renew the side fence next year. Compo's KeeKlamps idea is a winner too. |
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Jan 25, 2021 16:13:26 GMT
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I built my carport with the help of a friend. For the roof I made sure that it will be tough and could be regarded as commercial roof quality. Ron <a href="https://www.rencoroofing.com/services/commercial">Get more info</a> |
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