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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:11 am    Post subject: Car port help please Reply with quote

I have a 10x20 car port frame.
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I need a cover on the cheap. While still keeping everything temporary. By cover, I mean at least 3 sides, and the top.

What material can I use that wont desinagrate withing a few months, and can I beat this price?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:47 am    Post subject: Re: Car port help please Reply with quote

10.99 is pretty cheap....
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:13 am    Post subject: Re: Car port help please Reply with quote

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10.99 is pretty cheap....


Looks like that's for a dog food bowl.


For your cover I watch a youtube show called Sampson Boat Co. He covered his work area with some higher end plastic sheeting and it's held up for years. May check out his channel, he might reference the company who makes it?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:40 am    Post subject: Re: Car port help please Reply with quote

what stops the whole thing blowing away?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:29 am    Post subject: Re: Car port help please Reply with quote

The roof takes the hardest beating from weather. I put this up in 2013, its worked flawlessly. Just 12 ft sheets of corrugated metal from HD. Cut in the middle, 6ft each side, 100 tec screws later. I added another 15 feet 3 years ago so i have 35 feet of covered space. I need to get another frame that matches roof line Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 1:27 pm    Post subject: Re: Car port help please Reply with quote

https://www.shelterlogic.com/
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Car port help please Reply with quote

You get what you pay for.
I'd tie the legs together w/ something for more strength in the frame, 2"x4"s. pvc pipe, steel pipe, anything to ad stability.
I really like Darrel's idea of corrugated metal sheets, if your frame can handle it, probably the strongest thing to use.
My Dad gave me his 10 year old Shelter logic 18" tent in 2004, a few years back I replaced the cover, $700, but heavy duty. Plus like real estate, location, location, location is really important, mine is surrounded on 3 sides, less wind issues, plus 8 3' stakes to hold it down.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Car port help please Reply with quote

Stake it down. Tie the cross pieces together for stability. They make a rubberish, corrugated 4x8 sheeting that you could use for roofing. I found it at Lowe's. I would check a local canvas shop or tarp shop and price a roll of canvas tenting for the sides. I definitely would skip the 10.99 Amazon stuff. Might as well use garbage bags or Odd Lots blue tarps. Like somebody says on this forum, "You get what you pay for but you always pay for what you get"...or something like that. Good Luck! Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Car port help please Reply with quote

harbenger of fright might have one, but...I wood well I did . get a carolina car port. $700 for 12x21 installed. Im not sure how much they are now. but I diud have one of what you have.... a few tarps add up fast.and when I had to get it off the neibors roof before they came home....priceless. yup the enti\re thing was up there. atill intact.I havent a clue how it got there...it was bolted down. it also effup the bug roof on the way up and our camper's roof too.... it was handy for what it did. but I like this 2x2 steel tube frame with tin top much better.& Ive already enclosed 1 side and 1 end.,and working on doing the other end with door so I can still drive my car in. and the other side too.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 1:45 pm    Post subject: Re: Car port help please Reply with quote

I poured a 4" cement slab under a metal carport & encased the legs in the cement slab.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 4:32 pm    Post subject: Re: Car port help please Reply with quote

c21darrel wrote:
The roof takes the hardest beating from weather. I put this up in 2013, its worked flawlessly. Just 12 ft sheets of corrugated metal from HD. Cut in the middle, 6ft each side, 100 tec screws later. I added another 15 feet 3 years ago so i have 35 feet of covered space. I need to get another frame that matches roof line Crying or Very sad
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That's what I've done, except I put it on with the corrugations running longitudinally so it would bend around the sides and go down the walls a little, it adds so much more rigidity to it that way. For tie downs dig a 2-3 foot deep hole at each corner and bury something like a tire or heavy steel bar sideways with a chain around it to stick up out of the hole, then attach the shelter to the chain with a big turnbuckle.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:49 am    Post subject: Re: Car port help please Reply with quote

I like the metal siding idea for the roof. My question is, how did you attach it? I will see what kind if canvas there is locally to me and go from there.

Thanks for the help
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:26 am    Post subject: Re: Car port help please Reply with quote

Chickensoup wrote:
I like the metal siding idea for the roof. My question is, how did you attach it?

Self drilling roofing screws (Tek screws with sealing washers on them).
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:50 am    Post subject: Re: Car port help please Reply with quote

Chickensoup wrote:
I like the metal siding idea for the roof. My question is, how did you attach it? I will see what kind if canvas there is locally to me and go from there.

Thanks for the help


Check Craigslist. Local to me, a guy takes down large billboard signs, sells the vinyl material. It lasts a looong time and inexpensive. GL.
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