Utility Buildings: Steel Carports

Utility Buildings: Steel Carports

Carports

Carports are open structures with a top to protect your car, or other vehicles and equipment from weather damage, and for your convenience. They can be wood, metal, vinyl, or other materials. These shed type buildings were traditionally connected to the home in lieu of a traditional garage, but are most often used today, as a separate structure adjacent to the home, even if the home has a garage built in.

Garage replacement

Most garages in America are full of things other than cars, and serve the roll of extra rooms, game rooms, shops, or storage rooms, so a carport placed close by can allow the families automobiles to be kept safe while allowing the garage to be used for these other purposes.

Most wood framed carports are attached to the home with a ledger board, and posts creating a single flat roof with a slope away from the home.

Stand alone carports

Most metal carports are "stand alone" buildings with a gable style roof built on a galvanized steel frame. The sheet metal used for the roof is most often galvanized, primed and painted steel with long term durability.

Carports are great insurance

A steel carport provides some of the best auto insurance money can buy. Most insurance companies will cover hail damage, but the deductibles are usually outrageous, and the body shop are usually very busy during hail season. Carports provide a very inexpensive way to prevent such stressful episodes.

Carport uses

Carports also serve many other purposes. They can be patio covers, boat houses, and they can be built with added enclosed storage space for convenience.

Carport kits

You can even get carport plans, and buy carport kits, but your discount on such kits will probably save you no more than 10% of the installed cost, and standard carports in the 12x21 range cost only about $600.00, and 18x21 about $700.00. Why even bother with the headache of a carport kit you have to put together yourself?

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